how long will steak keep once frozen?

Answer 1

Well, it depends. It depends on whether you have the steak in a frost free freezer or in a freezer with a manual defrost.

With a manual freezer that keeps the meat near or below zero F. and the steak is wrapped tightly, you should be good for up to 2 years or more depending on how well it is wrapped.

If you are using a frost free freezer, like a refrigerator's freezer section, then 6 months is about as long as you can go. Maybe less depending on how often the freezer's frost free cycle goes.

You see, to make a freezer frost free, the timer shuts off the freeze cycle and turns on a heater, this heater warms the air and a fan blows this warm air around the inside of the freezer, the warm air melts any frost build up on the inside and then the heater shuts off and the freezer turns back on. This freeze then thaw, freeze, thaw cycle is what causes freezer burn.

Basically, you are drying the food out every-time it cycles, now since the cycle is fairly short, only a tiny bit of the food thaws, but it does thaw. Even a little bit over time draws moisture out of the food and causes the graying (the burn) of the food which is why in a frost free freezer, 6 months is the limit for beef, less for fish and other milder foods.

Answer 2

if you keep the steak in the freezer and do not thraw it out, it will keep 6 months. Some people keep frozen meat up to a year.

I say if you haven't eaten it, in 6 months toss it..
ALWAYS mark the food with the date when you put it in the freezer.

Fish is 6 months,
beef is 12 months.

be sure to thaw it before you eat it.

Answer 3

everybody has his opinion but from my is if it smell bad don't use most food group like 2ND harvest i think is 9 months

Answer 4

the colder the better... below zero will keep for months

Answer 5

a week to a half