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I live by myself and am wondering how long I can keep elk meat frozen? Seems like a buttload of meat for one guy. Plus, the doc only wants me eating red meat twice a week...sigh.

Double wrap with freezer paper, or cry-vac, I'd be comfortable with two years.

In addition, elk is pretty lean meat, so I'd tell your doctor to stick it up his ass with that advice.

I double wrap all my game meat, and have eaten elk roasts that have been frozen for up to 10 years.

I also live by myself, and a full freezer is the reason that now I only shoot an elk every 2 or 3 years.

I appreciate the advice, but not your need to use these crude words on a family website.

Double wrap, but the first layer is Saran Wrap (minimizing retained air space) then butcher paper with a drug store wrap. Paper alone is a pretty poor treatment. I still pick out somthing now and then that's 6 to 7 years old. One can buy several thousand foot rolls of both wraps at the box stores.

As long as you trimmed the fat off and wrapped it in a good freezer pape,you should be good for 3 years at least. A frost free freezer cuts that down. I have elk meat from 2009 that I am eating and it is great.It is only wrapped once with a butcher wra, std plastic backed freezer paper.

I had some 07 stew meat this fall that the fat ahd turned bad.

I do the same. Never lost any meat, but I can eat it everyday. So it's all gone in 6 mo.

Gary........Tell your doctor to kindly smooch your rump. Better?

Interesting, have no need to say thanks but no thanks, on the other hand speak my way or no way.... congrats, fastest ignore ever.

Standard double wrapped butcher paper kept ours GTG for more than four years while we were whittling away at it.

Gunner

I just asked my family about that, and they agree totally.



About the doctor sticking that advice up his ass.

Oh chips, I didnt see the foul language reprimand LOL, much as I cuss he's probably already got me on ignore.

Gunner

I'm still trying to imagine some dad saying, "Hey family! Let's all go on 24hr campfire and see what's going on!

If there's any hunting forum that can't be described as a family forum. This is it. It can get pretty raw sometimes.

Not for the thinned skinned.

Yup.. OP now has me on ignore to save his delicate sensibilities and nature.

Just like you're doing to me.

Kettle/pot?

This site is NFS...not for sissy's.

guess not.

Hey there, "Crude and Rude" some of us have class, I won't be letting my kids look here...

I'd never let my kids on this website.

Thankfully I don't have to worry about that. They'd rather be watching "Taxi Driver" and "A Clockwork Orange" on DVD.

I'm an single fella, and when I'm not out working away from home I typically eat with my parents. My dad can't walk but I take him out and get him on game with the use of longrange hunting and blinds for upclose action. This year he got an bull moose tag and got an good one so there was plenty of meat to process.

We process our own meat and I end up usually canning an good portion of the critter and that is excellent. What we grind or steak, roast, I vacuum pack and getting the oxygen out of the meat pack is what helps keep it from oxidizing and getting badly freezer burnt.

Cabela and Costco sell vacuum pack machines, or one can aquire an commercial unit.

As for canning Presto canners are pretty inexpensive and do the job, but you have to babysit them. The better pressure canner is the All-American. It's simplier and doesn't need constant attention once it gets up to heat because it maintains the proper presssure once the desired pressure is chosen an implemented