How stored beef in the refrigerator - an approach to the problem from two sides

To keep all the vitamins that are found in meat, you need to know how to store it

Use ready-made stuffing is conveniently purchased, cooked, eaten and forgotten. But what if the product is purchased and prepared we will be tomorrow or the day after? How long can you keep the stuffing in the refrigerator? And what happened to him when frozen? I managed to find the answers to all these questions - happy to share with you!

Where to store?

On store shelves you can find a large assortment of minced meat: meat, fish, mushroom, vegetable. To prepare the meat is usually crushed carcasses of cattle and poultry.

Since the meat product is sometimes necessary to be stored for a long time, when you purchase is necessary to determine its freshness.

How do you know that fresh meat? What advise to pay special attention to:

• Color. It can vary from light pink (chicken, turkey) to dark red (ground). Untypical for meat hue - a sign of its staleness;
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• Date of manufacture. The shelf life of meat, as well as its composition should be indicated on the packaging;

Be sure to read the information given on the label.

• Smell. Must be present aroma of fresh meat without impurities;
• Structure. Stuffing must be uniform consistency without foreign fiber, colored specks and mucus;
• Nutritional supplements. The product benign should not be a salt, soy protein and preservatives.

Beware of the natural markets, it can sell the spoiled stuffing. Take care of your health!

Minced meat can be cooked quickly meatballs or patties - it's convenient!

Approach 1. Fridge

At room temperature, the stuffing can not be stored for more than two hours. After it will breed bacteria. Therefore it is better to hide it in the fridge.

To the meat product has not lost its appearance, It is necessary to shift to a clean, dry container and cover with cling film.

Covered with a film of the stuffing will not distribute your scent on other products and weathered.

Shelf life in a refrigerator was minced 12 hoursat a temperature of 0 to +6 °C.

Minced fish, vegetables and mushrooms can be stored for more than 6 hours at the same temperature.

It is not recommended to expose frozen beef, which was in the fridge, because it does not save all the useful properties.

Under a container of meat, it is desirable to put a plate - cooled stuffing may leak, and you have to clean the refrigerator with their own hands.

Now we have come close to the issue of how much can be stored in the refrigerator burgers? Ideally, not cool at all. The crude product did not survive in the chamber 6 hours.

With a finished product, things are different. Find out how many stores fried patties in the refrigerator, it can be based on several factors:

1. Use fresh minced - 3-5 days at +1... +5 ° C;
2. Chilled - 1-3 days at +1... +5 ° C;
3. Frozen - up to 7 days at 0... +6 ° C.

Prepared dishes of minced meat can be stored in the refrigerator for a different period of time, it depends on where and how to store the twisted flesh.

Approach 2. freezer

If you cook the meat product failed at once, you can freeze it. To make things right, use the following tips:

1. To freeze suitable only fresh minced;
2. No need to add any spices. And once it becomes clear whether it is possible to freeze the minced meat with onions. It is undesirable, as the twisted meat with addition of other ingredients, will lie in the freezer less time;
3. Keep this product in the package store - not a good idea. It is worth to shift it into a convenient container.
4. The shelf life of ground beef frozen is 3 months without losing its beneficial properties.

You can use leftover cardboard tray. The main thing is to tighten it with a clean plastic wrap.

I know some tricksWhich retain the beneficial properties of the meat and save the space of the freezer:

1. First, you can use the molds for ice. This method is suitable for preparation of minced meat soup with meatballs, cooking eggs and dumplings.

Tangled for storing meat in the freezer is convenient to use plastic or silicone molds for ice.

1. SecondlyYou can use the newfangled method of batch storage. instructionsI presented in the table below:

Picture	Procedure
	Step 1. Rolling pin form a flat sheet of stuffing in the package.
	Step 2. Next, using beef sticks divide into portions as shown.
	Step 3. Ship preform in the freezer.
	Step 4. Gathered to prepare a dish of minced meat? Break off neat rectangular piece or more - depending on the number of persons, which is calculated dinner.

How much beef in the freezer is kept and how it correctly to lay down - we found. I also propose to determine how frozen patties of minced meat and other meat products.

Cutlets can be stored in plastic bags, the shelf life will be 7-10 days.

pelmeni - another popular frozen product. It is desirable to store them in plastic containers or in shopping intact packaging.

The shelf life of meat dumplings in the freezer - no more than 30 days at a temperature of -18 ° C and humidity - no more than 50%.

It is not uncommon when manufacturers of semi-finished indicate shelf life of 9-12 months. The price of semi-finished products are usually very democratic. But, as you might imagine, in these products is a large percentage of soy and other harmful additives - they are dangerous!

At the end of

I hope I have helped you to understand how, where, and how much is stored frozen minced meat. Videos in this article clearly shows how quickly cool the twisted meat without losing the beneficial properties. If you have any questions, please comment.