cooking question

[dani0622]

Can anyone help? I took frozen ground beef out of the freezer on Monday and placed in fridge. I just went to use it tonight and it smelled slightly odd. Do you think it's bad or unsafe to use or am I being paranoid? When I bought it I placed it immediately in the freezer.
thx

 

[monkeyboy]

nope go ahead and eat it it should be fine

 

[GoodFairies]

I wouldn't eat anything that had an odd smell.

 

[kpm76]

I would not eat it, esp. if it smells funny. I think I am overly cautious but anything I defrost in the frig gets eaten that day otherwise gets thrown out.

 

[JennyMominRI]

Hamburger should have a slightly bitter smell.. When it is bad it gets a sort of sickeningly sweet smell

 

[dani0622]

I'm not sure if I can describe the smell...it's faint. I started cooking it and it still doesn't smell right.

 

[Shugardrawers]

Is it possible it was going bad when you put it in the freezer? Thawing 2 days in the fridge wouldn't give it time to go bad so if it is, it was probably that way when you froze it. Is there anything slightly funky smelling in your fridge that it might have picked up the smell from?

 

[dani0622]

I don't think it was bad when I first put it in the freezer. I had just bought it at grocery store, although ya never know...There's really nothing in the fridge to make it bad!!

 

[clh2]

When in doubt...through it out!

 

[luv2nascar]

if it smells odd it probably is. Hope you threw it out.

 

[MsLeFever]

yup - mama always says...."when in doubt - throw it out!"

honestly, once I think something might be bad then I can't eat it.

 

[twinkletoesmom]

It's probaly too late now I'm sure you ate it or threw it out but here is a good Question---- Was it buy chance in an outside (garage) freezer? If so do you live in cold weather? If so let me know and I'll tell you why everything in your freezer could be in danger. (If you answer no then my explaination isn't worth writting) But otherwise it should not go bad defrostinf in the fridge for 2 days.

 

[Mishetta]

It's probaly too late now I'm sure you ate it or threw it out but here is a good Question---- Was it buy chance in an outside (garage) freezer? If so do you live in cold weather? If so let me know and I'll tell you why everything in your freezer could be in danger. (If you answer no then my explaination isn't worth writting) But otherwise it should not go bad defrostinf in the fridge for 2 days.

Now you have me wondering....I live in cold weather & I have a garage fridge/freezer which is usually packed. What is the info you have about this?

 

[dani0622]

I threw it out! It still smelled bad after I cooked it. And to answer the previous poster's question, it was in an inside fridge. Thanks for everyone's advice!

 

[TheRatPack]

I usually throw out funny smelling hamburger or chicken as well. Even if the dates are okay on the package. I can't stomach to eat anything that I fear might be bad....and if I did and the meat was okay I'd probably still make myself sick from worry LOL

The $4.00 or $5.00 a pack for meat isn't worth being sick and making my family sick....glad you threw it out. And just because the date is okay doesn't mean it really is. I've bought lots of stuff at the store that is bad in it's package and the date listed is still okay. The last being the new Crumbles cheese from Kraft.....gross to open the package for Tacos and see a big clump of mold. Blechhh!

 

[ducklite]

When In Doubt, Throw It Out.

My son works in the meat department at a large supermarket chain, and that's their motto as well. Making a couple bucks off questionable meat isn't worth the potential for making a customer ill. After a power failure last year, they tossed a lot of meat on the assumption it *might* have been too warm at any point in time, even if only for a few minutes.

My son has become a clean freak in the kitchen since he started that job. Now if I could just get him to apply the same standards to his bedroom...

Anne

 

[twinkletoesmom]

Now you have me wondering....I live in cold weather & I have a garage fridge/freezer which is usually packed. What is the info you have about this?

Well some freezers/fridges ( I think the frost free ones, I can find out) if they are left outside ( garage/barn) and it gets too cold it will turn it's self off and once it warms up it will turn back on. We have two outside fridges and have used them for years well this year the temps. must have just right to make the freezer turn off because I noticed that our meat was funny smelling and discolored, even though it was frozen. It had defrosted and then refroze. We lost a whole deer of meat and tons of other store bought stuff. The meat was in the fridge in our pole barn and it gets colder out there than the one in our attached garage but I did notice a few times when it seemed that the one in the garage wasn't "working", and the stuff on the door was a little soft, but nothing really defrosted. Lesson learned the hard way