"Ron" wrote in message

> Well, we finally got to the bottom of our freezer and found an eye of
> round roast dated 4/15/03. The question is... is it still safe to
> eat? Assuming it has dried out some (a lot), I thought putting it in
> the slow cooker and submerging it in beef stock and some sort of stew
> might bring it back to life. Any help or suggestions would be more
> than welcome. Wife wants to pitch it, I think it can still be saved.

Ron, I'll go with several others here. If it's been solid frozen all that
time, then its still 'safe'. Depends on how well wrapped it was, as to how
good it will still taste. My husband drives me batty by freezing meats just
in the styromfoam and thin wrapper from the store. Me, I double bag frozen
items in those larger ziplock typebags (I even save them for the next use
since all they hold is pre-wrapped frozen items).

Assuming it was reasonably wrapped, I'd actually be thinking to make jerky
of it. Could be the outerlayers are burned (trim away) but the inner core
might work well still for that. Also you could trim the outer then put the
rest in a grinder and probably get decent enough ground beef from the inner
core. I do not think submerging it in beef stock will yield a tender cut.

One last idea, add it and some bones to the crockpot with water and veggies
and make home made beef broth. It probably will do that well with only
trimming any obvious freezer burn areas off.