Freeze, process, Freeze

[cybball]

Last night, my daughter and I shot a button buck. I'm heading out today to butcher it. Question is, can I throw the boned out meat into the freezer, and then later process all of it into burger, sausage, and Jerkey? I'm leaving town tomorrow and won't be back until Friday, so I don't have an opportunity to mess with it until I'm back. Can't really throw it in our main fridge until then as I don't want it to get nasty and don't want my wife freaking out. Would a freeze, process, then re-freeze be super bad?

 

[Adventure]

That is typically how we do it. Just make sure its wrapped tight so it doesn't bet freezer burned.

 

[eulingertrim]

We do it every year. When butchering our deer we bone out and chunk up bags of meat. Then we freeze and thaw in feb when myself and a few others get together to make sausage. Some of the meat that we thaw goes into sausage or brats etc. The rest is ground up for burger and refrozen. We haven't noticed any problems with this process.

 

[JNRBRONC]

Most of the lockers freeze the venison that is destined to be sausage then do a huge batch after the shotgun seasons are over.

 

[cybball]

Thanks guys. He is boned out and in the freezer, double bagged without air. Since I may end up filling my buck tag in the next couple weeks, I'm going to wait to process and do it all at once. Can't wait. Got a new LEM grinder and it runs meat like hot butter. Going to do breakfast links, brats, burger, and then make jerky. Yum.