Cryovacing without machine
Submitted: Friday, Jul 24, 2015 at 21:22
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Hi All,
I maybe late sharing this idea or breaking new ground with it.
We just very successfully "cryovaced" some cooked meals (for a 6 week trip north) by putting the meal in the plastic meat tray in which the meat was sold, putting that in a suitably sized zip top bag. Zip the bag almost closed from each end towards the middle somewhere and insert a plastic drinking straw so the end is in clear space. Pinch down on each side of the straw on the zip but do not flatten the straw. Suck hard to remove as much air as you can, block the straw with your tongue and remove the straw quickly and close the zip lock. BINGO!! Works like a charm.
Now, does that get hotted or get knotted?
Ian
Reply By: Les - PK Ranger - Saturday, Jul 25, 2015 at 10:10
Saturday, Jul 25, 2015 at 10:10
Nothing wrong with using ziplock bags for some meal food preps.
Not as good and won't last as long as cryo vac seal machine prepared, but for up to 2 weeks I have found it is totally reliable for our trips.
We don't keep the meat trays, just the meat directly in the bags.
I have a vacuum cryo machine, and because most of my trips are 2 weeks or less, usually just use the ziplocks.
I just cut up meats into strips or whatever is desired, spray some olive oil in there for frying up, roll it up nice and tight, getting as much air out as possible, then double bag in another ziplock.
Freeze.
WELL.
I do this a week or more before a trip to get very deep frozen, pack around edge of car fridge compartment at -2, beer etc in the middle.
I need to defrost meats a day before using, right up to the last days of a 2 weeker.
We tend to keep a couple of red meat packs for the end period, using chicken first, though I did a Simmo trip in May, ex Brisvegas, my brother and I had chicken dish at
Parachilna Gorge in the Flinders on the way back to
Adelaide afterwards, some 2 weeks after we left BNE.
The emptied ziplock bags are then reused for 'wet' rubbish, like the inside meat bags, tea bags, etc.
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