Frog legs found in freezer 5 years old

Are they still good lol. They were frozen in water in 2014 and somehow got buried in the freezer.

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo, I wants to eats them lol. If I wasted these I'm gonna be PO'd!

I'd feel a bit jumpy about eating something that old

Thaw and smell.

hopfully they'll be o.k..

go catch some fresh ones.

cook em up and let the wife try the first one.i still have a son at home for such things.

If they were frozen in water I would say they were ok or even in vacuum packed bags that had stayed solidly frozen frozen wouldn’t be worried, I have dined on a few steaks and other meat that found it’s way to the bottom of the freezer and as long as they were either water packed or vac packed they have been good as new

I remember a fundraiser back in the late 80s early 90s where the main course was mammoth stake from a mammoth that was found frozen in a glacier and that would have been a way lot older the 5 years frozen

You must be feeling froggy

if completely covered in water they are good

Let us know how they were Catch. post up some pictures...

Get the oil hot if they aren’t freezer burned. You’ll be able to easily tell if they're burned

Will do, they're thawing now. If they don't smell bad, they'll be rolled in flour, S&P and fried this evening. If they're bad, I'm trapping coons in a barn so I guess they won't go to waste lol.

They might be bad! You can send them to me!! I will take care of them! And let you know.

YUM YUM! Eat 'em up!

you shouldn't croak.

Depends on how much time you want to spend on the toilet tonight. HA. If the bag isn't full of frost you might be OK. I wouldn't take the chance.

This is the most interesting and punny thread I have read all week.

I'm looking forward to the pictures and report.
You know Lulu wouldn't waste them, she would fry them right up.

Well, they don't seem to smell strong but the skin is yellow and feels weird. I'm thinking I better fix something else lol.

lord hates a coward.

Well, it’s time for me to tell my shrimp story. I had an uncle who moved from Pa. to Gulfport, Mississippi back in the mid 60s. He worked at the shipyard as a welder but shrimped on his days off. Every summer he came back North to visit for a week. He always loaded his Pontiac wagon with shrimp in ice chests for his family in Pa.

Fast forward to 1987. My Grandmother had recently died, and my uncle ( from Mississippi ) and I were cleaning out her home for an estate auction. She was the original hoarder. In the basement there were 3 chest freezers. On the bottom of one of them was a full 5# waxed pasteboard shrimp box. The marker handwriting on the box was from his ex wife, who he divorced in 1971. He moved back North that same year. My uncle opened the box which was full of shrimp an then filled with water and froze. After thawing in the sink, there were a few shrimp on the outside of the cube that were freezer burned, but the remainder looked fine. My uncle deep fried them for dinner that night....tasted great.

They would have been in that freezer for at least 16 years.

What a wuss! They wouldn't hurt you if they were totally freezer burned! All freezer burn is, is drying the moisture out of meat while being frozen. We recently cleaned out two big freezers, and found hamburger, steaks, roasts, all kinds of stuff buried. Didn't throw any of it away. Just ate meat balls fixed with the last of some of it that was at least seven years old. We learned a trick using buttermilk, to marinate in, for at least overnight that helps tremendously. It ain't as good as the new stuff, but it is for sure edible, and my arse is too tight to just throw it!

I think they will be just fine since they were frozen in water. Since you won't have to worry about freezer burn the only other thing about long term freezing is the fats/oils in meat getting rancid, and I doubt that frog leg meat has little if any fat.

An example would be frozen salmon; salmon has a lot of oils and will get somewhat rancid and fishy tasting after long term freezing (unless kept at extremely cold conditions).

Halibut on the other hand is a very lean fish and will retain a good flavor when frozen much, much longer than will salmon.

Im with you Lee,,i never waste it!!!

I didn't wuss out, I just happened to change my mind.

Sounds like something a snowflake would say.

I'm greatly offended by that.

Now I'm hungry. Time to go dumpster diving in the deep freeze. I am certain that there are both frog legs and wild turkey breast strips frozen in water in there older than 5 years.

Next time bet you won't froget they are in the freezer. By the way your meal looks like it might be just a tad-Polish.

I have never waited longer than the next day to eat any frog legs I caught. At 6:00pm on June 8th, you'll be able to catch some fresh frog legs in Ohio.

Keith

I'm waiting for that day Keith. I really don't know how this happened because frog legs are in my top 3 of favorite things to eat. I'm upset that I did that, but I did make bait out of them so it wasn't a total loss.

Might be like chewing on a gummy bear,but go ahead and eat them.It will bolster your immune system.

You wussed out! I can't believe you didn't at least try them before you chucked them. I ate some fish awhile back that was prolly ten years old, froze in water, and tasted good! (shakes head)

frozen is frozen. I'd eat them. Especially deep freezer ones. I got deer sausage that old I'm eating. Roasts. Hams. Turkeys. Deep Freezer stuff lasts a long time.

Give it to him Lee!!!

yup frozen is frozen,even if a little freezer burned its ok.

Freezing stops the clock on spoilage but doesn't reset it. In other words, if an item had a 5 day time for freshness when frozen, it would be fresh for 5 days once thawed if held at a safe temp (less than 41 degrees). Long term freezing may affect taste and texture but it would still be safe to eat if handled properly.