Get one of these
Start grilling.
Posted on 05/13/2010 5:22:21 PM PDT by knarf
A freezer conked out and a lot of deer inside is on the cusp of going bad.
Mail it to Rahm (dead-fish) Emmanual.
Fire up the grill! If you have steaks and chops and tenderloins, cut them into strips, wrap the strip in a piece of bacon, weave onto a skewer and grill. Awesome! (Freeze what’s left.)
You should NOT throw meat into your compost pile, unless it is a very BIG and very HOT compost pile. (I know a guy who composts dead goats in his HUGE compost pile.)
If the meat is still cool to the touch, it’s still OK to cook and eat.
If there’s burger, roll up your sleeves and make ‘Millions of Meatballs.’
http://www.recipezaar.com/recipe/Freezer-Millions-of-Meatballs-196983
Ice chest and ice. For the beer. Then light the BBQ, and we’ll be right over.
Take a steak or two and stuff it under the car seat of your favorite liberal. This works great if their car sits in the sun with the windows rolled up for more than about an hour.
(I’m kidding. Behind something in their garage works better and it’s normally harder to find once the stench starts)
/johnny
Hold a big barbeque; invite others to bring their grills.
Turn your misfortune into a chance for building up your community.
Let it spoil, make it into patties and send it to Michelle Obama with a note.
Tell her it’s your contribution to her “Get Up and Move’ campaign..(as in having to “run” to the bathroom).
Naw. Putting it in the heating vents in the house is best. I know a woman who did that(with spoiled meat) to her ex husband when she moved out..he couldn’t find the source of the stench for months...ah, sweet revenge :-)
That is the prepper answer, this is the same as any other emergency, pressure can it, and jerky it.
Go buy another freezer and unpack your defunct freezer into temporary boxes. Give enough room to move out your bad freezer. When it is empty enough so you can move it, move it out of the way and park you new freezer in its place. Put your meat in the new freezer and turn your new freezer to its maximum setting. The meat will refreeze and still be good.
Do you attend a Church? Surely the pastor knows some folks who would really appreciate it?
College, 1993, practical joke.
We (roomates) found a peice of meat in the fridge that was...old, but cold. Being engineers, we new to seal it tight in a zip lock bag. We found a quaint spot in our neighbors apartment and hid it...then forgot about it.
Apparently it takes about a week for the rotting gasses to build up enough to burst the bag. From the screams and commotion we heard one Sunday morning we assumed a murder. After several minutes of yelling and crashing a beer box came flying out of the front door and a stinking discolored ziplock bag of goo spilled out of it.
Cleveland, “That’s nasty.”
Deny, deny, deny....blame the guy in flight school next door.
If you fear any spoilage, don’t even try to save it for human consumption.
Do you live anywhere near the water?
It could make decent chum with a little blood added.
Near a zoo? Perhaps you can donate it. Many wild aninmals are not affected.
Other than that, I would burn it then bury what’s left.
Deer Jerky.
Check your homeowners insurance policy. Mine happened to have a clause with a $500. deductible for loss of contents. One week, exactly, after the 1-year warranty ran out, the freezer died.
I didn’t discover it had stopped working until several days later and the stench was horrible ...some of the melt seeped into the concrete floor. Without thinking, I neglected to take photos...just rushed to clean the mess up.
I called the manufacturer [Haier] and they wouldn’t budge on the warranty. By some miracle I still had the sales receipt.
The insurance company was fine with it. I emailed them an inventory, they had their own cost estimate done by an independent food purveyor and within a few days had a check for $1800. [That’s with the deductible]
The contents was mostly venison, yellow and blue fish tuna.
Good luck!
Dust off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
blue fish tuna = blue fin tuna
I sometimes get a deer that’s been hit on the road, and thrown onto my property as a result of the collision. I usually find them after it’s been a while. I haul them out into the middle of a field and let nature take over. It doesn’t take long.
If it still has ice crystals in the center, it is OK...
I had a similar problem a couple of months ago, right after putting 2 more deer in. I canned and dried all of it - not into jerky, but if you boil roasts, chops, and cut it into chunks, it will dry very well. I now have 11 cases canned and 20 quarts of dried venison chunks that make fantastic stew.
Canned venison will keep for years and years.
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