Frozen Beef Patties Good After Expire
- kingfencer [OP]
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Safe to cook froozen expire food?
i have expired hamburger from december, its been in my freezer for 3 months. is it still safe to cook?
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Question: is it those frozen hamburger patties that you buy already frozen. If yes, you can still cook it and it will still be "not rotten". but freezer burn will probably make it taste a bit weird.
If it's fresh hamburger meat that you froze the day you bought it; it's still good, but you might find that your meat, once defrosted, will contain alot of water. you might squeeze out the liquid before cooking it.
If it's fresh hamburger meat that you froze a few days after you purchased it, I wouldn't eat it.
So to answer your question: Is it safe to cook? Always. Is it safe to eat? It depends.
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- sexpuppet6000
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make sure to really cook the hell out of it to be on the safe side
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- IronMac
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If the hamburger is frozen before the expiry date then it should still be good.
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Do you really want to risk food poisoning on the opinions of RFDers....?
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- dolphie
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eat it, you'll be fine, obviously as long as it's been frozen the entire time, and not thawed in between.
Generally it says not to leave beef frozen for longer than 6 months, but as a kid our family bought a half cow at a time, and were often still eating it 6 months to a year later. Not as tasty as fresh fresh beef, but it's just hamburger.
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Let's put it this way: between starvation and a little diarrhea, well, the choice is pretty clear. Besides, it's probably more flavourful, nutritional and overall more satisfying than anything you can get off of McDonald's menu.
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My high school teacher thought he could "cook the bacteria" out of a burger that was expired in his freezer and he ended up in the hospital for 7 months.
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Spray wrote: ↑My high school teacher thought he could "cook the bacteria" out of a burger that was expired in his freezer and he ended up in the hospital for 7 months.
So you're telling me it wasn't frozen before he put it in the freezer, and then he ate it a few months later, and was in the hospital for 7 months?! Pretty hard to believe. The meat must've been contaminated with some type of bacteria on his counter-top, or something...
We normally buy fresh meat bulk, and then freeze it right after buying in small portions, and use the meat whenever we need it.
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F1ash wrote: ↑So you're telling me it wasn't frozen before he put it in the freezer, and then he ate it a few months later, and was in the hospital for 7 months?! Pretty hard to believe. The meat must've been contaminated with some type of bacteria on his counter-top, or something...
We normally buy fresh meat bulk, and then freeze it right after buying in small portions, and use the meat whenever we need it.
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- TheBrain
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I do it all the time, buy it on special and cook it up when I have the time. Might have some freeze burn but that's not dangerous.
Have a nice day! 
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- Keelie
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if it was frozen before the expiry date, its fine.
That's my 2cents worth
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Spray wrote: ↑My high school teacher thought he could "cook the bacteria" out of a burger that was expired in his freezer and he ended up in the hospital for 7 months.
he killed the bacteria but he couldn't get rid of the by-product poison that bacteria left before he cooked the meat.
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- el_diablo007
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Keelie wrote: ↑if it was frozen before the expiry date, its fine.
thats how I generally look at things.
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surge wrote: ↑Do you really want to risk food poisoning on the opinions of RFDers....?
I've been doing it for years. Most of the time, it's vacuum-sealed hamburger put in the deep freezer. The stuff can be in there for months before I find it again.
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I generally err on the side of caution when it comes to these things.
However, if you do go for it, I wouldn't feed it to anyone who's immune system might be compromised by a cold, or the very young or elderly.
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- duckdown
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heres an idea... stop being so cheap and buy some new stuff
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- 5abSingh
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duckdown wrote: ↑heres an idea... stop being so cheap and buy some new stuff
wrong forum for that kind of talk 
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- Lone_Prodigy
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5abSingh wrote: ↑wrong forum for that kind of talk
Haha beat me to it.
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kingfencer wrote: ↑i have expired hamburger from december, its been in my freezer for 3 months. is it still safe to cook?
Are you hard up for cash and starving? If not throw it out and buy some more.
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