Posted By: magspa
re-freezing meat after making sausage - 02/22/15 02:27 PM
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.
Posted By: bill oxner
Re: re-freezing meat after making sausage - 02/22/15 03:07 PM
I refreeze meat all the time.
Posted By: Erathkid
Re: re-freezing meat after making sausage - 02/22/15 03:25 PM
I refreeze meat all the time.
Me too. Don't do it more than a couple of times with the same batch though.
Posted By: Simple Searcher
Re: re-freezing meat after making sausage - 02/22/15 03:49 PM
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.
Posted By: nuprofessor
Re: re-freezing meat after making sausage - 02/23/15 03:12 AM
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.
Posted By: redchevy
Re: re-freezing meat after making sausage - 02/23/15 02:59 PM
What your planning on doing will work fine.
Have fun.
Posted By: dfwroadkill
Re: re-freezing meat after making sausage - 03/02/15 08:05 PM
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.