So today, I ate a three year old sausage patty.
(preppers)Well, yesterday, really.
Well, this whole last month or so. One a day.
About three years ago, I freeze dried a whole bag of these sausage patties
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I expected it to fail because of the fat/grease content. If it didn't fail, I fully expected them to go rancid.
To prep them, I popped them onto a baking tray, slammed them in the oven, patted and squeezed some grease off. When I pulled them out of the freeze dryer, they were somewhat bendy and looked like really
really old sausage patties. Like it'd been sitting under a McDonald's grill for three weeks because of lazy workers.
I tried one. It
tasted fine though it was a little tough and chewy. So I put the lot in a thick mylar bag, threw in some O2 absorbers, sealed it up and put it on a shelf for worse days.
Three years later...
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Opened it up and... it looked the same. Smelled fine. I was wary. Licked one. No rancid taste. At all. Surprising but not surprising since it's the air that makes oil go "off".
So I popped one in a small pot of boiling water for about 5 minutes. It came out... pretty much the same. Didn't rehydrate, really. Oh, sure, not gonna break my teeth or anything but it wasn't before. It was still bendy.
So I've been popping one of those on a bagel every morning for breakfast for the last month-ish.
Pretty tasty.
And then there's the three year old green onions. So got a fuckton of green onions about three years back. Cut 'em up, freeze dried, put in vacuum sealed jars and put them on the shelf.
They're starting to turn a little brown and don't clink in the jar like they used to.
I opened a jar up. Smelled fine. Licked on. Tasted fine. Just looked off. So I put the whole jar in a soup. Tasted just fine. Weak and limpy like you might expect from an onion that had been frozen and thawed.
But I'm still alive.
So...
Sausages: Pass the test.
Onions: Pass the test.
