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re-freezing meat after making sausage
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02/22/15 02:27 PM
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I never like to thaw and re-freeze. But I am making sausage today with some extra hog meat thats been frozen. We are going to make fresh sausage, to be cooked before eating so i dont have to deal with the curing. Do yal refreeze after making sausage? This will be my first time making sausage so any tips are appreciated.
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Re: re-freezing meat after making sausage
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02/22/15 03:07 PM
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I refreeze meat all the time.
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Re: re-freezing meat after making sausage
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02/22/15 03:25 PM
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I refreeze meat all the time. Me too. Don't do it more than a couple of times with the same batch though.
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Re: re-freezing meat after making sausage
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02/22/15 03:40 PM
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Re: re-freezing meat after making sausage
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02/22/15 03:49 PM
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We always freeze ours, thaw out to make sausage, then freeze the sausage.
Tip on mixing and grinding: Mix your seasoning with the meat before grinding. We use as ice chest for this. Then alternate pork/venison (or whatever meat) as you feed it into your grinder. This will mix again as you go.
Adding the seasoning after grinding is a lot of mixing work, and not near as thorough.
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Re: re-freezing meat after making sausage
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02/22/15 07:20 PM
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I refreeze meat all the time. Me too. Don't do it more than a couple of times with the same batch though. ^^^^^^ What he said.
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Re: re-freezing meat after making sausage
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02/23/15 01:27 AM
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I refreeze meat all the time. Me too. Don't do it more than a couple of times with the same batch though. Same here.
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Re: re-freezing meat after making sausage
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02/23/15 03:12 AM
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Only way I can process all the deer and hogs I take each year. Not enough time to make the final product all at once. Have never noticed a difference.
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Re: re-freezing meat after making sausage
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02/23/15 02:59 PM
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What your planning on doing will work fine.
Have fun.
It's hell eatin em live
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Re: re-freezing meat after making sausage
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03/02/15 08:05 PM
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I read where the USDA suggested to keep the meat at 40 degrees or lower if you are going to re-freeze. Some bacteria start to grow at 40.
I don't check the temp, but I try to keep the meat as cold as possible if I am going to re-freeze. Never had a problem.
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