I been marinating my meat before I freeze it. I divide the steaks up into meals then mix up diffent marinades in a zip lock bags and add the meat and freeze. It seems to take the favor better this way. Does anybody else do this?
There seems to be 2 main thoughts on this. The first is that the meat should be marinated from 30 min to a few hours. The other school of thought is that it should be marinated overnight.
The reasoning for the shorter time is just add some flavor to the meat without overpowering the meat. Use the one that works best for you. By the way, I typically marinate longer time.
I used to do the same thing until I read up on this. Salt lowers the freezing temperature of meat so this shortens the freezer life. Because marinades have a high content of salt adding them to meat before you freeze will greatly reduce the shelf life and the strength of the flavors will also be reduced after 3 months. Now I thaw mine and marinate about 6-8 hours befor cooking. If its a "Hot n Spicy" mix I will sometimes shorten the soak time.
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I dont marinate and freeze for 2 reasons,
as other poster stated i dont want the marinade to overpower the meat.
also i dont know how i plan on preparing the meat when i do defrost it.
Marinating meat
