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Meat question for all you good cooks
Meat question for all you good cooks
This may be a silly question but it pertains to something I haven't tried so bare with me -
We are taking a cooler in three weeks. I am planning and packing meats.
I have a recipe for flank steak that calls for an all day soak in marinade.
Do you think it would be ok for me to mix the marinade and vac pack the marinade and meat together and then freeze immediately?
My thinking is that it will marinade as it thaws.
My concern is that it will over-flavor the meat.
We are taking a cooler in three weeks. I am planning and packing meats.
I have a recipe for flank steak that calls for an all day soak in marinade.
Do you think it would be ok for me to mix the marinade and vac pack the marinade and meat together and then freeze immediately?
My thinking is that it will marinade as it thaws.
My concern is that it will over-flavor the meat.
Flank steak can take a marinade for a long time. I would put the steak in the marinade, freeze it, and then vacuum seal it. I don't know what kind of vacuum sealer you have, but if I tried to seal it before freezing the marinade to a solid, mine would suck all the liquid up and into the machine (it's a foodsaver).
It's like looking in your soup and finding a whole different alphabet.
Good point about the freezing. I am going to borrow my friend's food saver. I was going to have the butcher do the meat (plain) but I got this current idea when reviewing my recipes. This particular one calls for ginger and I thought to myself "will I find ginger at Starfish....? Why not make it ahead of time?"
Some of the places where you can go and prepare meals to freeze, then thaw and cook later has the marinade with the meat before freezing, so I'd say it's OK, especially with flank steak.
liamsaunt, I have a foodsaver also. If I have liquid I just wait until right before it gets sucked out of the bag and into the unit and hit the button that finishes right then. I don't recall if it says pause, or cancel, or finish, because I don't use it very often, but I have used it successfully to either freeze something with liquid or to keep from crushing bread that I'm freezing.
liamsaunt, I have a foodsaver also. If I have liquid I just wait until right before it gets sucked out of the bag and into the unit and hit the button that finishes right then. I don't recall if it says pause, or cancel, or finish, because I don't use it very often, but I have used it successfully to either freeze something with liquid or to keep from crushing bread that I'm freezing.
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