Cleaning and rotating the deep freeze unit.
How long can you keep, well packaged, meat, poultry, fish, etc.?
Obviously poorly packaged product gets freezer burn quickly.
Curious as to what the IDO family has experienced.
Dog 
I just had venison loin from 2011 for dinner! Still pretty tasty 
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Cleaning and rotating the deep freeze unit.
How long can you keep, well packaged, meat, poultry, fish, etc.?
Obviously poorly packaged product gets freezer burn quickly.
Curious as to what the IDO family has experienced.
Dog
vacuum sealer is your friend.
If I wrapped it myself – 1 year, anything else – ASAP
+1 vacuum sealer and don’t go cheap.
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+1 vacuum sealer and don’t go cheap.
Correct. My dad’s commercial grade sealer just destroys my Food Saver in a side by side comparison. Cabelas Commercial Grade
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I just had venison loin from 2011 for dinner! Still pretty tasty
Thats impossible…how can you keep a loin that long without eating it. 
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I just had venison loin from 2011 for dinner! Still pretty tasty
Thats impossible…how can you keep a loin that long without eating it.
Must have gotten buried in that mythical bottom of the chest freezer. I loose stuff in mine all the time.
Grouse, I actually lied. Regardless of purchase date, it needs to be removed by the second day of water trapping season!
Yummy.
Chinese stir fry YUM
Thermal barrier is cheating. 
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Grouse, I actually lied. Regardless of purchase date, it needs to be removed by the second day of water trapping season!
I dont care who you are, That’s Da, funny! woops dont eat the offering here! 
gees Randy.. you have a rodent problem.. you should put out some traps or something.. Gees.. how do they get into your freezer like that?
And that my friends is his good freezer.
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I just had venison loin from 2011 for dinner! Still pretty tasty
Thats impossible…how can you keep a loin that long without eating it.
Must have gotten buried in that mythical bottom of the chest freezer. I loose stuff in mine all the time.
There’s a bottom to my freezer?? I just though it kept going 
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+1 vacuum sealer and don’t go cheap.
Correct. My dad’s commercial grade sealer just destroys my Food Saver in a side by side comparison. Cabelas Commercial Grade
While I can see a comm grade lasting longer, what does it do the basic food saver won’t?
Suck and seal, seems pretty basic to me.. 
Freezer, if in over a year it’s gone, saver or not.
Shrimp and such even less.
Al
I’ve been chowing down venison berg from 09 with now issues.
We use a non-commerical vacuum sealer, and we try to eat everything up within 1.5 years. We had venison steaks from 2011 just a few weeks ago which were just fine. It’s amazing how stuff can get buried in a freezer!
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While I can see a comm grade lasting longer, what does it do the basic food saver won’t?
Suck and seal, seems pretty basic to me..Freezer, if in over a year it’s gone, saver or not.
Shrimp and such even less.Al
The suction speed and power is many X more than my sad little food saver. MORE POWER!
Seems to not have random sealing issues also like my Food Saver does once in a great while.
6 months is a good rule of thumb for fish. 1 year for red meat. I’ve gone well past this as others have.
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While I can see a comm grade lasting longer, what does it do the basic food saver won’t?
Suck and seal, seems pretty basic to me..Freezer, if in over a year it’s gone, saver or not.
Shrimp and such even less.Al
The suction speed and power is many X more than my sad little food saver. MORE POWER!
Seems to not have random sealing issues also like my Food Saver does once in a great while.
More power is always nice..thanks
al
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I just had venison loin from 2011 for dinner! Still pretty tasty
I had a buddy that gave me a stick of deer sausage (this was in 1977) but he had labelled it ‘muskrat sausage 1957’ my wife asked if this was any good any more…..so I sliced off a chunk and ate it! She believed it was real…until my drinking buddies told her the truth! Jerks!
Looks like you’re just a little overstocked with Yummy stuff!
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