In article >,
Gerry Atrick > wrote:

> I'm a bachelor and unlike most women, I am not very organized with
> cooking. When I finish my days work I want something to eat and want
> it fast. That usually means some tv dinners or a frozen pizza or lots
> of instant mashed potatoes in the microwave coated with ketchup.
>
> But there are times I really want something more. I am not a good
> cook, but I can make a hamburger or something like that. The problem
> is that I live in a rural area and the stores are not open late. I
> have to get my food in advance. If I buy some ground beef or
> something like that, it ends up sitting in the fridge. Some days I
> work late, other days I am too tired to cook when I get home, often I
> will stop at a fast food place on my way home from work, or get
> invited to a friends house to eat. The next thing I have forgotten
> about tis ground beef and it's gone bad in the fridge.
>
> After far too many instances like that, I now toss all meats in the
> freezer. But that seems to be where they permanently "live". I know
> it takes a full day to thaw out something like that, and then I am
> often back to the same issues. I take it out of the freezer, forget
> about it, and once again I have bad meat.
>
> Is there any way to defrost frozen meat quickly. Can I do it in the
> microwave, the oven, or anywhere else? I want it to defrost in under
> an hour if there is a way. Can anyone please help....

Just repackage meats in small containers and use the defrost feature on
your microwave oven. Using a microwave oven to defrost one or two
servings of ground meat or steak, etc. should only take a few minutes.

"Gerry Atrick" > wrote in message
...


> OK, I read the whole thread on here and have a much better idea what
> to do. But I am still stuck with about 30 THREE POUND round plastic
> wrapped containers of venison. A friend of mine is a hunter. He
> takes his deers to a place and has it ground and packaged this way. I
> buy some from him because he does not need it all. He sells it to pay
> for his hunting license and supplies. When I get it, it's frozen.
> Those containers are plastic wrapped about the size of a salami, ....
> 2 1/2 inches thick, 10 inches long. That's more meat than I want fro
> one meal. How do I unthaw them and not waste half or more of it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Gerry

Options:

- Give half of each thawed package to a friend who will use it right away.
- Hacksaw - Don't laugh. Butchers use a saw.
- Make meat loaf or meatballs and freeze in serving-size portions.

Gerry Atrick > wrote in

> OK, I read the whole thread on here and have a much better
> idea what to do. But I am still stuck with about 30 THREE
> POUND round plastic wrapped containers of venison. A friend
> of mine is a hunter. He takes his deers to a place and has it
> ground and packaged this way. I buy some from him because he
> does not need it all. He sells it to pay for his hunting
> license and supplies. When I get it, it's frozen. Those
> containers are plastic wrapped about the size of a salami,
> .... 2 1/2 inches thick, 10 inches long. That's more meat
> than I want fro one meal. How do I unthaw them and not waste
> half or more of it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Gerry

I have taken a 5# roll of ground beef and sawed it in half.
You could even ask the local butcher if they will cut the frozen
meat in half for you. Then thaw the 1.5# meat as needed.

Gerry Atrick wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:09:31 -0500, Stan Horwitz >
> wrote:
>
>> In article >,
>> Gerry Atrick > wrote:
>>
>>> I'm a bachelor and unlike most women, I am not very organized with
>>> cooking. When I finish my days work I want something to eat and want
>>> it fast. That usually means some tv dinners or a frozen pizza or lots
>>> of instant mashed potatoes in the microwave coated with ketchup.
>>>
>>> But there are times I really want something more. I am not a good
>>> cook, but I can make a hamburger or something like that. The problem
>>> is that I live in a rural area and the stores are not open late. I
>>> have to get my food in advance. If I buy some ground beef or
>>> something like that, it ends up sitting in the fridge. Some days I
>>> work late, other days I am too tired to cook when I get home, often I
>>> will stop at a fast food place on my way home from work, or get
>>> invited to a friends house to eat. The next thing I have forgotten
>>> about tis ground beef and it's gone bad in the fridge.
>>>
>>> After far too many instances like that, I now toss all meats in the
>>> freezer. But that seems to be where they permanently "live". I know
>>> it takes a full day to thaw out something like that, and then I am
>>> often back to the same issues. I take it out of the freezer, forget
>>> about it, and once again I have bad meat.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to defrost frozen meat quickly. Can I do it in the
>>> microwave, the oven, or anywhere else? I want it to defrost in under
>>> an hour if there is a way. Can anyone please help....
>> Just repackage meats in small containers and use the defrost feature on
>> your microwave oven. Using a microwave oven to defrost one or two
>> servings of ground meat or steak, etc. should only take a few minutes.
>
>
> OK, I read the whole thread on here and have a much better idea what
> to do. But I am still stuck with about 30 THREE POUND round plastic
> wrapped containers of venison. A friend of mine is a hunter. He
> takes his deers to a place and has it ground and packaged this way. I
> buy some from him because he does not need it all. He sells it to pay
> for his hunting license and supplies. When I get it, it's frozen.
> Those containers are plastic wrapped about the size of a salami, ....
> 2 1/2 inches thick, 10 inches long. That's more meat than I want fro
> one meal. How do I unthaw them and not waste half or more of it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Gerry


With a saw. Large packages of frozen vegetables can be hacked apart
with a meat cleaver.

Or, partially thaw and then cut the roll in half with a big knife. Cook
the one half (partially frozen is fine) and refrigerate the extra piece
for tomorrow.

Bob

"zxcvbob" > wrote in message
...


> With a saw. Large packages of frozen vegetables can be hacked apart with
> a meat cleaver.
>


Tool note: A professional chef I know shares my concern about cleavers &
fingers. So, for some work, he rests the cleaver on the food (like a brick
of frozen spinach), and whacks the top of the cleaver with a wooden mallet,
available at any decent hardware store. Cleaver is happy, fingers are happy,
and you can cut more precisely.

On Feb 9, 8:33 am, Gerry Atrick > wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:09:31 -0500, Stan Horwitz >
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> >In article >,
> > Gerry Atrick > wrote:
>
> >> I'm a bachelor and unlike most women, I am not very organized with
> >> cooking. When I finish my days work I want something to eat and want
> >> it fast. That usually means some tv dinners or a frozen pizza or lots
> >> of instant mashed potatoes in the microwave coated with ketchup.
>
> >> But there are times I really want something more. I am not a good
> >> cook, but I can make a hamburger or something like that. The problem
> >> is that I live in a rural area and the stores are not open late. I
> >> have to get my food in advance. If I buy some ground beef or
> >> something like that, it ends up sitting in the fridge. Some days I
> >> work late, other days I am too tired to cook when I get home, often I
> >> will stop at a fast food place on my way home from work, or get
> >> invited to a friends house to eat. The next thing I have forgotten
> >> about tis ground beef and it's gone bad in the fridge.
>
> >> After far too many instances like that, I now toss all meats in the
> >> freezer. But that seems to be where they permanently "live". I know
> >> it takes a full day to thaw out something like that, and then I am
> >> often back to the same issues. I take it out of the freezer, forget
> >> about it, and once again I have bad meat.
>
> >> Is there any way to defrost frozen meat quickly. Can I do it in the
> >> microwave, the oven, or anywhere else? I want it to defrost in under
> >> an hour if there is a way. Can anyone please help....
>
> >Just repackage meats in small containers and use the defrost feature on
> >your microwave oven. Using a microwave oven to defrost one or two
> >servings of ground meat or steak, etc. should only take a few minutes.
>
> OK, I read the whole thread on here and have a much better idea what
> to do. But I am still stuck with about 30 THREE POUND round plastic
> wrapped containers of venison. A friend of mine is a hunter. He
> takes his deers to a place and has it ground and packaged this way. I
> buy some from him because he does not need it all. He sells it to pay
> for his hunting license and supplies. When I get it, it's frozen.
> Those containers are plastic wrapped about the size of a salami, ....
> 2 1/2 inches thick, 10 inches long. That's more meat than I want fro
> one meal. How do I unthaw them and not waste half or more of it?
>

I never tried, but you might be able to get a butcher to saw it up
while it is still frozen.