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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Freezer is your friend.   Freeze steaks, chicken, hamburger patties.  But I remove everything from its original packaging and put it in a freezer ziplock.

Even ground meat is great frozen if you remove it from original packaging and put kind of flat in freezer bag (I try to make it less than width of my large frying pan).

Try to buy enough meat for the week all at once and freeze.

Frozen steak or lamb chops - put in fridge overnight.  Or, let it thaw a few hours on granite counter.  I flip halfway through.

Frozen hamburgers- toss Frozen right into pan with lid on low medium to get it defrosted.

Frozen ground beef - same thing.  Great for taco nights.

Frozen chicken - toss frozen into crock pot all day on low.  Can pour cream of chicken Campbells soup in there too on top.

Or, even better, pull apart cooked chicken and toss it in a cream pasta.  That sauce is roughly 1/3 broth, 2/3 cream chicken soup, and little olive oil.  I toss it right onto cooked spaghetti.[/quote]

Why is it better to remove from original packing to freeze?[/quote]

A freezer bag is thicker and keeps the meat a lot nicer.  Also, that paper puffy thing underneath meat in the store container gets stuck to it in the freezer.  Also, for counter defrosting, the meat can touch counter on both sides in a freezer bag.  Sometimes, for thin meats, I put freezer bag into a large bowl of hot water for a quick defrost.  Like a skirt steak or tenderloin chicken.  Defrosts real fast.[/quote]

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