See how good our freezer is. I’m having the sausage/pepper/onion left over from my birthday.
In February.
Of 2010.
I let it defrost overnight, and so far it’s passed every sniff test and it looks perfectly fine. It’s in the microwave now, so we’ll see how it looks/smells once it’s heated. Reports to follow. I hope.
Heated up…smells really good. I figured the peppers would be the least likely to kill me, so I tried one of them first. Surprisingly crisp.
Took a nibble of sausage, which tasted fine, but I’m going to let it sit for a minute to make sure it stays down.
If the freezer is cold enough the food may taste bad and lose it’s texture, but no harm will come to you.
What a lightweight. I ate 7 year old ranch dressing once. That had been stored in an uncooled RV in the deep south the whole time. Well, actually just a bit before I realized it was more yellow than the white its supposed to be and didn’t taste right and I checked the date on it. My SO was actually stupid enough to keep on eating.
Hah! I found a beer in my trunk from a golf trip last summer, that was past its expiration date! Chilled up just fine and went down smoothly.
Done, and it’s had about an hour or so to take hold in my gut…no problems to report. A damn fine bowl of SPO, I gotta say. Good freezer, it would seems.
Amateurs.
When we got a new deep-freezer a couple of years ago, while cleaning out the old one we found a 15-year-old whole chicken. Thought “What the hell,” thawed it, cut away the worst freezer-burned parts, and made an edible soup out of it, making jokes about serving sweetie’s picky niece food that was older than she was.
2010? That barely qualifies! I just ate some 2009 pierogis, and didn’t even give it a second thought! And most of the stuff in mom’s freezer is older than that! The winner was the 20-year-old chicken breasts she unearthed and ate. Dried out and tough, but didn’t give her even a second’s trouble.