Save Your Meat From Freezer Burn
We have the cure to your meat’s crystallized, freezer-burned state: a quick-chill. A little extra effort? Sure. But for your precious, expensive cuts? Absolutely worth it.
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No one is doing this
I wouldn't freeze my "most priciest and special cuts" at all.
That’s a lot of salt. Second you combine salt and water first then add ice. It allows the salt to dissolve faster.
Never been a problem
To melt ice on the roads, salt is used.
What did I miss here?
Correction: a salted ice bath will not be colder than your freezer (unless you just took the ice out of a deep freezer). What it can do is get the liquid saltwater colder than the normal freezing point of water which increases the rate the meat cools down compared to either sitting in cold air or on solid ice.
It can’t make your ice colder than your freezer unless you got your ice cubes out of a different, colder freezer. Cmon people think a little
In all honesty, i think it’s a waste of salt and ice!
I just need to admit that some tips are for the restaurant setting and not for the low-wage setting.
Freezing food in saltwater is a spectacular idea. I know a similar technique is used in industry but I had never even considered trying it in the kitchen. You have my food scientist seal of approval.
I'll stick to putting it in a freezer safe sealable bag and using it within 8-12 months
Yeah, not worth the trouble.
I’d rather loose some juices than waste a pound of salt,straight up.
I find this really surprising that salt could make a big enough difference to freeze meat without refrigeration.
It seems like a lot of resources to freeze a cut of meat. Just invite friends over. So much ice and salt
So not only am I meal planning including making the grocery list after scanning coupons, then you want me to do this to the meat after I shop and unload the groceries and then cook the meat and do the dishes? I’m trying to remove steps not add them.
Your freezer is at zero degrees? What kind of crackpot freezer you got there, gramps? Mine's at -32 Celsius.
What are you talking about? Freezers are -16⁰c and ice water struggles to get below 0⁰c? If you want to make an argument about thermal conductivity, fine. But saying that a freezer isn't as cold as ice water is nonsense
What? If the salt ice bath isn't freezing the liquid water in ice bath, how exactly will it freeze the steak?
Where on Earth do freezers operate at zero degrees. Mine is -18, and that's normal.
If you can get dry ice, use that. Works great for freezing fresh berries that thaw beautifully also.
No one can afford that steak