Can You Freeze Marinated Meat?

Food Safety, Marinated, Marinated Meats -

A question we tend to get asked a lot at HQ, peculiarly during tiptop summer BBQ flavor, is whether or non you can freeze marinated meats? Shirley, our resident Food Safety officer, is here to answer...

marinated lamb steaks and marinated chicken kebabs on silver plates on a wooden table

What is a Marinade?

A marinade is a coating, usually fabricated up of salts, sugars, acids and herbs and spices, which is used on the exterior of meat to add flavour. Marinades are sometimes oil based but tin can likewise exist made from purely dry ingredients (often referred to as dry rubs).

Meat should exist marinated for at to the lowest degree 10 - 15 minutes, but it is ofttimes recommended that meat be left to marinade over nighttime. This being said, as marinades don't tend to penetrate far into meat, in that location's no real do good to leaving meat to marinade for longer periods of fourth dimension.

Can You Freeze Marinated Meat?

The short respond is yeah. Whether yous have brought meat that is pre-packed and marinated, or you have marinated it yourself at home, marinated meat tin can be frozen providing all the raw ingredients are even so within their utilize by dates. It is not truthful that marinating meat extends its utilise by date, and thus you should always melt your marinated meat past the date on the packet.

Tips

  • For quality purposes we would recommend that marinated meats are kept in the freezer no longer than 3 months.
  • When you wish to use your meat it should exist defrosted in a fridge and used inside 24 hours.
  • Never re-utilize any left over marinade which may have come into contact with raw meat.
  • Ever brand sure your meat is cooked safely to a minimum core cooking temperature of 75C.

Written by Shirley Rhoades

Shirley Rhoades (ACIEH) is role of the total fourth dimension Truthful Bites team and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Environment Health, with over 30 years experience in the food industry. She has an (CIEH) Avant-garde Document in Nutrient Hygiene, a (NEBOSH) Certificate in Occupational Wellness and Safety, and is a registered (CIEH) Professional Trainer. She is besides a passionate cook and bakery in her spare time and is renowned for her huge collection of cook books.