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    How long is frozen hamburger meat good for?

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    0  Views: 753 Answers: 1 Posted: 14 years ago
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      Four months


      The USDA says you can keep it for four months, assuming your freezer is running properly.


      It doesn't actually go "bad", per se, but it will be very hard to keep it from developing freezer burn, even if it's wrapped as tightly as you can, because of tiny spaces in between the bits of meat. Water sublimates into those spaces, and the crystals burst the cell walls of the meat, making it mushy and unpalatable.


      Eventually the fats in it will go rancid, even in the freezer, making it genuinely unsafe to eat. That will take even longer, but by the time it reaches that point it will be so freezer-burned that you wouldn't want to eat it anyway.

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