I wanted to freeze diced beef that I bought. I bought a 400 gram pack of Aldi Aberdeen Angus Diced Beef, from the Specially Selected range, but had no use for it immediately. It’s straight forward to freeze raw meat. Depending on time and how much space I have in the freezer, I might just toss the whole packet in, or I might remove the beef from the packet, so it takes up a lot less room.
I cut out the label from the pack and slide that inside too, so I’m sure what it is and how long it’s been in the freezer.
Red Tractor Beef: The label shows that this beef is Red Tractor beef, for those interested in that sort of thing 🙂 The label also clearly displays the word “freezable”.
How to Freeze Diced Beef:
- Remove the Aberdeen Angus Diced Beef from the packet.
- Put it into a small freezer bag.
- Cut the label out and slide the label inside the packet (check you did that the right way round!).
- With your hands, squash down the beef so it’s flat and evenly spread.
- Seal the freezer bag and place it in the freezer flat. It needs to be as flat as possible, so it freezes flat (and not bent!) After 2 hours or so it should be frozen solid and you can then move it to a more convenient place in the freezer.
To use the diced beef in the future, it’s best to defrost it first, so simply remove the bag from the freezer, place it in a bowl (in case the pack leaks or drips) and put the bowl in the fridge overnight to defrost.
Note: one of the things about food safety is that raw meats and cooked meats shouldn’t be near to one another. That’s why a bowl’s used to defrost meat in. If you can, place raw meat on the bottom shelf of the fridge, then in the event of a “disaster” it’ll have had less opportunity to have spilt or dripped on to any other food in the fridge.