took my eye off the ball

mumtosix

My weekly shop arrived whilst I was out & my oh put shopping away, which I am grateful. He also got the meat out of the freezer last night for dinner today. Cut a long story short, I've just gone to fridge & realised that the meat shoul have been halved. My question is can I cook it then refreeze it to use as another meal?

EstherH

Yes, absolutely. No problem refreezing after cooking. Esther x

newthrift

Yeah that's fine. I have done this many times before and still here to tell the story

[Deleted User]

Yes, cooking a dish then re-freezing is absolutely fine

Linda32

Yes, perfectly fine to do that.

hoglet121

Yes, the rule is you can freeze everything once in each state - ie freeze and defrost once when it is raw, and freeze and defrost once when cooked. A colleague of mine is adamant you can't do this with chicken, but I do it every week using chicken and I have never had any problems whatsoever.

meritaten

hoglet121 wrote: »

Yes, the rule is you can freeze everything once in each state - ie freeze and defrost once when it is raw, and freeze and defrost once when cooked. A colleague of mine is adamant you can't do this with chicken, but I do it every week using chicken and I have never had any problems whatsoever.

Ive done it with chicken for nearly 35 years and haven't killed anyone yet! or even had anyone ill afterwards. Though in the last ten years I haven't bought frozen chicken, I have bought fresh chickens, jointed them and froze them.

hoglet121

That's exactly what I do, buy fresh and whole, then joint and freeze

JIL

hoglet121 wrote: »

Yes, the rule is you can freeze everything once in each state - ie freeze and defrost once when it is raw, and freeze and defrost once when cooked. A colleague of mine is adamant you can't do this with chicken, but I do it every week using chicken and I have never had any problems whatsoever.

I wonder if your colleague ever has frozen chicken curry or frozen chicken pies?
I regularly cook a big piece of meat then slice it up into portions cover in gravy in tubs and freeze. I don't even bother to defrost it. It just gets zapped in the tub for 6 mins per portion. Haven't made the OH ill to date.

hoglet121

Hi JIL,

Well without getting into the long and the short of it all, I'm not entirely sure that she lives in the real world.... Frozen things from a packet are all fine but she's very suspicious of cooking something and freezing it. I do my best to explain cooking (she's 20 years older than me) but much if it is met with resistance. That's fine, her choice, but at least I feel I've tried to help. Yesterday we had a 'discussion' as she didn't believe me that hot curries have chilli in them, she thought they were hot 'from curry', but that's getting off topic a bit!

I haven't dared tell her about some of my chicken cooking tricks, but suffice to say whatever state it started in, it's thoroughly cooked by the time it's served and no one has got sick....

JIL

I think I may have worked with someone very similar. Lunch tongue was not from the obvious part of the animal. KFC was not from real chickens. What part of an animal was mince from? Maybe we have stumbled upon a title for a whole new thread?