Guide to Using the Freezer
Meat and Fish
Food
Wrapping
Beef Roast
Tinfoil
Lamb
Tinfoil
Pork Roast
Tinfoil
Veal Roast
Tinfoil
Each piece wrapped in cling wrap and then
Veal/Pork Chops
in tinfoil (4 to 6 slices)
Each piece wrapped in cling wrap and then
Veal/Lamb Cutlets
in tinfoil (4 to 6 slices)
In aluminium containers covered with cling
Minced Meat
wrap.
Heart and Liver
Plastic Baggies
Sausages
Cling Wrap or Tinfoil
Chicken and Turkey
Tinfoil
Duck and Goose
Tinfoil
Pheasant, Partrige and
Tinfoil
Wild Duck
Hare and Rabbit
Tinfoil
Venison
Tinfoil or Cling Wrap
Large Fish
Tinfoil or Cling Wrap
Small Fish
Plastic Baggies
Crustaceans
Plastic Baggies
Store in salted water in aluminium
Shellfish
containers or plastic containers.
Boiled Fish
Tinfoil or Cling Wrap
Fried Fish
Plastic Baggies
Tenderising
Storage
(days)
(months)
2 / 3
9 / 10
1 / 2
1
1
Freshly
minced
1 / 3
1 / 4
1 / 3
3 / 4
5 / 6
4 / 6
2 / 3
3 / 6
4 / 6
11
Thawing Time
Not required.
6
Not required.
6
Not required.
8
Not required.
6
Not required.
6
Not required.
2
Slowly in refrigerator.
3
Not required.
2
As necessary.
9
Very slowly in refrigerator.
6
Very slowly in refrigerator.
9
Very slowly in refrigerator.
6
Very slowly in refrigerator.
9
Very slowly in refrigerator.
Very slowly in refrigerator.
Not required.
Not required.
3
Very slowly in refrigerator.
12
In hot water.
Directly in pan.
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