Storing Food?

Question

Please give me several ways of preserving and/or storning food, esp meat.

Answer 1

With storing and preservation, the idea is to create an enviroment that won't support growth of bad bacteria. This can be done by eliminating moisture or adding somthing to the meat that stops bactrial growth - salt, preservatives... etc.

Storing meat -
refrigeration (a few days - slows down bacterial growth) and

freezing (a few months - slows down bacterial growth even more. Depending upon the temperature can even kill some bacteria)

Longer term storage options -
Canning (Cooks the meat and canned in a sterile conditions so no bacteria to start out with in the food) - not popular, but can be done.

Drying (eliminates moisture and salt is used) - Jerky

Curing (creates an unfriendly enviroment for bacteria - salt, nitrates and nitrites... also drying removes moisture) - corned beef, procuitto, salami and sausages

Curing and smoking - ham, bacon, sausages

Answer 2

usually,meat are stored for not more than 5 days inside fridge and it lasted for 1 month inside freezer..traditionally, old folks will simply smoke the meat or even cure it with salt and herbs as there were no fridge to store the meat..what i did is i combined both method,curing and smoke to preserved the meat..firstly, you cured the meat with salt and your choice of herbs such as rosemary,thyme etc for 24 hours and you smoke it with wood chips for 45min afterwards..try it,you'll love it..you can even use a little bit of balsamico and sugar to make it even tastier

Answer 3

Freeze it
Smoke it
Dry it
Can it

Answer 4

Canned. Frozen. Cooked then frozen.

Please be specific. What type of meat? What are your future intentions for it?