Homemade Sausage Making

I would appreciate some guidance on a topic that I have no experience on:- Re-freezing meat.

If I buy meat, and at that time it has 2 days before the "use by date", vacuum pack and freeze it the day I buy it for about 1 or 2 weeks, then defrost to process to sausage, can the sausage be frozen?
Essentially I am then re-freezing the meat.

Would this be a safe practice? This would apply to Beef, Pork, Chicken and Turkey.

I have been doing it for years. Probably shortened my life to less than one hundred years.

ssorllih wrote:I have been doing it for years. Probably shortened my life to less than one hundred years.

Thank you Ross, only a hundred years life span then?

Oh well, I guess one can't eat the sausage from both ends, got to pay the penalty somewhere along the line.

Shucks Bubba,
Ol' Ross was with General Sherman when they "mooned" the rebel soldiers and then marched on down to the sea to have a little dip in the Atlantic.
Yes, the meat is safe, although each time it freezes, the ice crystals will rupture more cells. The meat's texture will suffer a little and it will be slightly less flavorful - but safe. Quick freezing makes smaller ice crystals thus less damage.

Best Wishes,
Chuckwagon

Chuckwagon wrote:Ol' Ross was with General Sherman when they "mooned" the rebel soldiers

William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 - February 14, 1891)
The waters of the Atlantic must have waved their magic on them, that's pretty good going in years.

Thank you for the update on re-freezing meat, Chuckwagon, I will keep these freezing times to an absolute minimum.

I don't remember too much about that scrap. My mind has been a bit foggy ever since that charge up San Jaun Hill.

OOOOoooo... I've created a monster!
Don't believe it for a moment Bubba! His lack of memory is due to sniffin' and snortin' all that sodium nitrite!

Chuckwagon wrote:Don't believe it for a moment Bubba! His lack of memory is due to sniffin' and snortin' all that sodium nitrite!

But the Cuban Cigars are good!
I suspect former President Theodore Roosevelt had a few stuffed in his pockets after returning from the San Juan Hill.

Cuban cigar? Last time I had a Cuban cigar with a shot of cognac, I thought I was gonna fall over the rail of the cruise ship No it wasn`t motion sickness either

Maybe the Cognac was past it's "sell by" date?

No, when it comes to strong liquor and cigars, I`m a wimp. It was my B-day cruise several years back and the gang wanted to celebrate in style. Of course it didn`t help the waiter at our table, held a bottle of rum over me, like a bartender gone wild.
Anyhow back to ice crystals, CW will probably throw me out on my mustache if I keep jabbering about non topic material

My experience has been that the colder I keep my freezer and the more widely spaced my meat packages when I put them in the freezer the more quickly they freeze and the less bleeding I get when they thaw. Slow freezing make big ice crystals.