/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Depends on whether or not your freezer ever goes through defrost cycles. Most likely it's mildly freezer burnt. Things in a true freeze don't grow anything.

>>12262184
Might taste stale but probably safe

Last time I researched, there are a few relevant pathogens that can survive or even reproduce at down to -8°C - -6°C, however household freezers usually operate at -24°C - -18°C, so any food placed into it is presumably safe to eat until the temperature rises, even up until the end of eternity. Of course this only applies if there were never any temporary breaks in the freezing

Dude, don't eat that shit, have some dignity.

>Most likely it's mildly freezer burnt.
>Might taste stale but probably safe
These are trolls trying to 'ave a laff at the guy trying to eat a 10-yo frozen dinner. Its gonna be more than "mildly freezer burnt", the thing is gonna taste like ass. If you don't mind eating stale and gross af butter chicken then go ahead and at least chip away the ice first.

>>12262216
>muh mom science

>>12262216
ok but it won't kill me right?

>>12262241
As long as your freezer doesn't go through long defrost cycles all the time and you have it set on a low temp. Still, you should buy other food.

I wouldn't eat it simply because there has to have been some point in the past 10 years where this thawed out. Other anons are right in that it should be safe so long as it remains frozen, but surely in the past ten years there's been a few long power outages that could allow it to thaw out.

>>12262184
You must cook it and post pictures for science.

Yes. I foolishly ate a 3 year out of date frozen dinner and spent the whole night vomiting.

>>12262251
>>12262248
>>12262190

actually now that I think about it my freezer has lost power for around 16 hours a few years back. It's a chest freezer and we never opened it

if I cook it longer than the recommendations on the box will that be safe enough?

ok I found another butter chicken in my freezer that expired in 2017, is that safer? you guys are making me worry a bit

>>12262293
Cook it and find out. If it's bad, you'll be able to smell it, probably.

Just eat it you fuck. Whats the worst that could happen? Death isnt so bad anyway.

>>12262279
>freezer lost power for 16 hours
You should’ve thrown out literally everything in that freezer, but if it had never been thawed out it would definitely be safe. That isn’t the case though.

>>12262317
>>12262316

>>12262324
I accidentally hit reply, but I put them in the oven, they look fine desu. it says it'll take about 30-45 minutes so I'll come back then

thanks guys

>>12262328
Plastic in the oven? Aren't these meals for microwave and/or hot waterbaths?

>>12262347
Haven't you ever had a Stouffer's Lasagna? You bake those things for 45 minutes with a thin plastic film on top of black plastic. Some plastic is horrifyingly resilient.

>>12262328
Bump for culinary science.

>>12262328
Bump for science, gonna check this when I get home from work in 45 mins.

>>12262402
>>12262367
OK guys I'm eating it now, it tastes fine actually, like their normal butter chicken

if I start shitting uncontrollably in 30 mins I'll let you know

I wouldn't recommend this unless you're desperate like me

>>12262452

>>12262184
How lazy are you ? Please eat it and due so we don't have more garbage(literally lol) thread like this

>>12262456
*please eat it and die

>>12262293
WHY DO YOU WANT TO EAT SPOILT FOOD SO MUCH

>>12262456
>>12262461
fuck off, i ate it and im fine

>>12262546
its not that i want to, it's just all i had in my freezer

>>12262328
post comparison desu

posting in ebic bread
gonna need an in depth comparison OP

>>12262184
The packaging is so much different now. You should save it, it's like a little piece of history.

>eating a decade-old frozen dinner
NICE

>>12262585
>>12262606
when I put them in the oven I forgot which one was which, so I couldn't tell you which one was the older one

They both just tasted like the regular PC butter chicken idk what to say, bretty gud

>>12262184
It won't be spoiled if that's what you mean, but it might taste like ass and/or have a shitty texture.

>>12262184
op

>pc butter chicken

Relic of a bygone era, who knows what secrets we could uncover

>>12263501
huh?

>>12263501
We'll have to give OP a full autopsy when he dies later tonight.

You don't deserve to eat. Starve, monkey.

>>12263542
I'm completely fine, obviously if you keep food frozen you can't die

>>12263558
Indefinitely, I'm sure. Tried to look up that "wooly mammoth steak" story I'd heard floating around from years back so I could post it here, but it turned out to be bunk. Makes me curious though, as I did hit upon an article about a well-preserved specimen that began bleeding after it was thawed, suggesting it wouldn't be impossible to eat mammoth meat.
I bet SteveMREinfo would eat some, probably ask for seconds and wash it down with a Punic War era beer.

>>12263614
It probably wasn't "bleeding". I'd bet money that was myoglobin, red pigmentation from damaged cells mixed with water. Same stuff you see people panicking about their steaks "bleeding". Hemoglobin should have coagulated before the massive animal froze. I'd love to see the thing ejaculating jello clots though?

>>12263653
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fresh-mammoth-carcass-from-siberia-holds-many-secrets/
Yeah it sounds like you're right.
>"During excavations, the carcass oozed a dark red liquid that may have been fresh mammoth blood. In fact, the mammoth meat was reportedly fresh enough that one of the scientists took a bite of it."
Sorry Scientific American, go back to that last part?

OP is kill

>>12263675
If you're being a sarcastic dick, you could quote the parts of the article that point out that their blood has unique properties that would allow it to survive, and make it ooze out.
>While scientists probed the elbow of the mammoth, the large beast oozed more blood. Chemical analyses revealed that the blood cells were broken, but still contained hemoglobin, or oxygen-ferrying molecules. Unlike humans and other mammals, mammoths evolved a cold-resistant form of hemoglobin that could survive at the near-freezing temperatures present during the Ice Age.
Weird ass blood.

>>12263695
no I'm fine,

>>12262279
If the freezer stayed closed for the full 16 hours and wasn't empty, it's all good. Stuff in a full freezer will stay frozen and safe for like 48 hours.

I used to get this and the PC korma almost every day when I was a buggy bitch at Independent. Never really tasted "in date" but I loved it anyways.