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Food & crafts => Food processing => Topic started by: MiriMaran on March 25, 2010, 07:22:11 pm

Title: Re-frozen Pate
Post by: MiriMaran on March 25, 2010, 07:22:11 pm

My OH made some pate the other week and froze.  Wethen got it out a couple of days ago, but last night Harry fiddled with the fridge and everything froze over night.  So my question is will the pate be safe to eat now that it has been defrosted twice?  Both my OH and I reckon it will be OK, but wanted to double check with you guys.

Title: Re: Re-frozen Pate
Post by: Daisys Mum on March 25, 2010, 08:02:52 pm

Yes it will be okay to eat. :)

Title: Re: Re-frozen Pate
Post by: MiriMaran on March 25, 2010, 08:17:33 pm

OK thanks

Title: Re: Re-frozen Pate
Post by: sagehen on March 27, 2010, 11:49:24 am

Only one way to find out - try and see what happens  ;D

Title: Re: Re-frozen Pate
Post by: jameslindsay on March 27, 2010, 11:59:58 am

BIN IT - DO NOT EAT!!! :)

Title: Re: Re-frozen Pate
Post by: doganjo on March 27, 2010, 12:30:20 pm

Good grief only just seen this.  NEVER eat refrozen food if it has thawed.  That's when bacteria multiply!

Title: Re: Re-frozen Pate
Post by: MiriMaran on March 27, 2010, 09:11:13 pm

OK I had a sandwich with refrozen defrosted pate and defrosted home made mayo and I'm still alive!

Title: Re: Re-frozen Pate
Post by: doganjo on March 27, 2010, 09:51:15 pm

Well sometimes you can be lucky ;) ;D ;D But I wouldn't do it!  ::)

Title: Re: Re-frozen Pate
Post by: MiriMaran on March 28, 2010, 07:46:03 pm

Maybe I have a tough constitution.  As a teenager I was hiking in Scotland my tranger broke so I spent the weekend eating raw bacon and sausage!!!

Title: Re: Re-frozen Pate
Post by: Hilarysmum on April 03, 2010, 10:33:40 am

Totally illegal I know, but have worked in a factory (some years ago now) where it was common practice to freeze thing which were later thawed, processed then refrozen.

Title: Re: Re-frozen Pate
Post by: MiriMaran on April 03, 2010, 07:50:20 pm

Naughty naughty!!

Title: Re: Re-frozen Pate
Post by: Hilarysmum on April 07, 2010, 08:27:03 pm

Actually thinking back on this subject, I doubt many would remember the corn beef scandal of the 1965.  Something to do with corned beef from Argentina killing some people.  The boss of the shop I worked in after school, took all the cater sized tins of Argentinian corned beef into the freezer.  It was kept until the crisis was passed then bought out, sliced, packed and sold.

Title: Re: Re-frozen Pate
Post by: Wizard on April 08, 2010, 08:15:17 pm

I froze some game pate with a layer of pickled walnuts in the middle but the walnuts didn't like the freezing So I binned it there was only about 1/2 a kilo for a test to see what happened.I looked in all sorts of books but could find no info at all

Title: Re: Re-frozen Pate
Post by: VSS on April 14, 2010, 07:47:54 pm

I'd eat it. If something has accidentally got frozen in the fridge it is a totally different kettle of fish to something that has been stored in the deep freeze