I am so happy to see other people have a pork freezer, beef freezer, chicken freezer, and we also have one for rabbits and other frozen veggies, fruits, etc. I always used to think we were oddballs, lol.
Where is that link to your class. I love watching your videos. You are amazing. Dreams and wow. Thank you for sharing all your wealth of information ❤️🙏🔥 one day I will have a little more property to do more I pray 🙏. 🍓🐣
Can you tell me how to use an old fridge freezer? I out it in the garage but I found out that it did not keep the meat chickens I raised and they got ruined. I had to throw them away . I literally cried. I did not know that it would not good the temperature in the garage. I need to empty it out again before winter because it has other store bought meat in there etc food in there and it killed me to lose the ones I raised. It was a lot of work but I now can say I know how to do it and will again. My 9 year old helped me and we are hoping now for our first chicks to hatch from her pet bantam chick who decided to go broody. Kind of exciting and nerve-wracking cuz I think she's past the day of hatch and I saw life but never did this before. Looking in how to build a simple incubator or just wait. I don't know if she can keep them warm enough. And there's too many eggs so I will wait and maybe try the incubator next time since she can't keep too many eggs. I read only 3-4 but there's more. So I don't know which ones may have died? I don't know how to tell yet but I'm guessing if it's too much longer than they may have passed, but there was definitely something growing in there. I saw movement in one for sure and did the candling, I can see lots of development and veins and airsac etc but not sure yet if they will make it.
Love the dividers in the chest freezer, I'm going to do that. I do recommend keeping enough jars on hand to can what is in the freezer should things get bad but that's just the prepper in me :)
Hey, you know what's great? You actually have great, informative content. Most TH-cam "homesteaders" are using click bait, and other phony tactics to get views. I'm subbing to your channel.
I just bought half a beef and put it in my freezer barley got it all in i got it off craigslist a farmer took 2 cows down and one of the buyers backed out so that would have been 2 whole cows and that was two much for him so i got it a really good deal i thank the lord i can look in my freezer and know there's a lot of food
Gramma used to have a massive box freezer, I can’t wait to get one! I’ve never owned one myself. Great tip about the power, I have hurricane cooked through a small freezer when we lost power. I would be devastated to lose quarter cow
Would love to do this one day! We’re a military family so we move a lot and can never put down deep roots anywhere. We’re in Cali right now but moving to Kansas in a few months. We get Butcher Box delivered monthly which allows us to not have to buy much meat from the store. Thinking of finding a local farmer when we get to Kansas and seeing if we can do a cow share or something. We have a 7 cu ft freezer. Thank you for these videos!! You are so inspiring. :)
Love how you used plywood to create compartments! We have a separate freezer for each kind of meat (beef, pork, poultry, seafood/fish) plus one for veggies as well as one for storing homemade breads, stews, pre-cooked/prepped ingredients, freezer friendly left overs or make ahead casseroles, homemade microwave or oven bake "snacks" (hot pocket/hand pies/empanadas, pizza, burritos, etc.), and dairy. We keep bags of ice and space available to fit them in "just in case" of power outages and thermometers to monitor temps. The freezer for breads, dairy, cooked and prep items has been challenging to organize. We've tried baskets, boxes, etc. Your plywood compartments just might be the solution needed!
@@jamjar5716 'Fraid so ... but after developing some mobility/degenerative issues ... freezing took over as our primary preservation means over time as lost more ability needed to spend long hours on feet, lifting, etc. needed for massive amounts of canning I used to do -- although still do some with a bit of help -- as well as dehydrating. And for bad days when not even up to cooking there are ready meals in freezer waiting for the guys because I cook extra of freezer friendly stuff on days I'm up for it. So over time we went from a single small chest freezer in the house to having several larger ones in a converted 2 car garage/out building.
This was amazing. I got my first quarter cow last year, and thought I was really doing something! I have a single 15cu ft chest freezer, but I'm only one person, so I think a quarter is enough.
Loved your video. I need to get organized like you. I tried freezing my extra eggs and didn't care for them. I also didn't like giving up my freezer space so I searched youtube for Waterglass eggs. It's how grandma keep eggs year round.
~~~ We are so glad we watched your video. You and your husband are wise and helpful to us all out here in internetland..WONDERFUL every video our friends.
Love your videos...In watching this one I see you freeze eggs. I was wondering if you'd ever heard of or tried "waterglassing." My husband and I raised chickens for over 30 years. We had sporting/family camps on a remote lake in northern Maine. The grocery store was 32 miles away and running out of eggs wasn't a good idea. So in researching ways to keep them, not only for the times we were feeding a dozen or two people per meal but also for when our chickens went through a molt, I came upon an old time technique called waterglassing. It's incredibly easy, requires no space, no electricity, and keeps eggs fresh, safe and looking as well as tasting like newly laid eggs for A YEAR or MORE!. I purchase a gallon jug of sodium silicate- also known as cement sealer (!) about every 8-10 years at a cost of less than $20 a gallon. The formula I've used, though proportions vary slightly depending on the source, is one part sodium silicate to nine parts cold water, mixed well in a clean five gallon bucket with a lid. Into it are placed the wiped off but NOT washed eggs. This amount of solution will easily handle 15-20 dozen eggs. Keep the bucket in a cool-cold place that won'T freeze, like the basement or mudroom. Take eggs out as you need them, wash them off gently before using and you're good to go. I've spread the word whenever possible to chicken owners about the technique, and now that I'm an older widow, no longer raising chickens, much appreciate the fresh eggs people have stopped by to share with me as thanks for the information (and often the sodium silicate which I've given as a strange sort of gift many times :) Best regards, Kathy B guidance.
Katherine.....any thoughts on how this might work in a warm climate? We live in Hawaii where there is rarely a cool/cold spot other than refrigeration! Low 60's ( rarely) is as low as we go!! Otherwise 80's is the norn. Would appreciate any input!! Thanks!
@@tianakanelua6573 Gee, Tia, I've never given that any thought. But I wonder if something like a small "root cellar", if you also have some land you can dig in, might work. I don't know the ground temperature in Hawaii, and I'm guessing it varies according to altitude possibly, but my basement here is a steady 55 degrees. Is that a temp you could achieve by "planting" your bucket in the ground? We store root veggies that way in the north, where winter temps often go to -20 degrees or lower. I've tried to locate online soil temps at different depths in Hawaii but not knowing where you live, I was unsuccessful. You might search this out knowing your specifics, or contact your local Cooperative Extension Service for help with this issue. I use mine in Maine all the time for issues like food preservation to making window quilts. It's always been a great resource, if not for answers, then where you might go to find them. Best of luck Tia :)
A lot of good info in your videos. Thanks for taking the time to put them together. You never know we may have to go back in time when people had to be self reliant.
Good idea with the different compartments. I could really uses the organization. I know which freezer something is in but, rooting around to find what I'm looking for!...yeah, my life.....I may just have to use this brilliant idea. And, yes, I said brilliant!
I bet all the boys wish they could have snagged you. One lucky husband. You do so much with so little. We’re all going to have to learn what you know real damn fast. I’m whiteknuckling it as Harvest Right has a 10 week back up (white comes a little sooner so I got that one), the garden is nothing but a bunch of seedlings 🌱, and I know nothing about solar to keep the freezers going. At least I learned canning from you. Only have 1000 hard won canning lids (ordering as little as 6 boxes up to 12 then checking the shelves while I’m there) driving to every Walmart within an hour the past few weeks) so ordered the Harvest something longer lasting ones. I wish I grew up in your family where you gradually just know everything from watching it be done. I hope there is time to teach my 13 year old daughter so she can teach her children. Since you can’t make more of you maybe you can train some of your best students to then go train others. Like a certificate program showing they were trained by THE Melissa K Norris. For hypnosis it was Deloris Cannon but then she died so I was trained by Alba Weinman. For cutting edge psychology it’s Sue Johnson, I have been trained by her personally and has marriage counseling from her right hand man, George Fuller. The idea is you take the best of the best and you learn from them every little detail with an engineers mind, which I have, then you do and teach when you’ve gotten excellent.
George told me to get out (sociopath) which you aren’t allowed to say. (Emotionally focused couples therapy is 72% successful where normal is 32%.) He’s out of my house now. I doubt people will re-elect him as a judge when they find out who he actually is and the things he has done. I hope I live long enough to get it out there now that he knows it’s coming.
We also have multiple freezers, although all of ours are uprights. I have a beef freezer (fits 1/2 beef), one for pork, one for chicken and "ready-made" items (I do big-batch cooking and make-ahead freezer meals), one that I share with my mom so I only have 2 shelves plus the door but we keep bread/tortillas, baked goods and butter in here, and one in a fridge/freezer for fruit/veggies/juice. I put post-it notes on the outside of the door so I know where the sirloin steak is located compared to the stew meat. It also helps that my family has been trained to look at the post-it notes first before opening the door and standing in front of the freezer searching for items! :-)
16 down likes? Perhaps they are vegan lol! Great content and character as a person. Your Heart and character shines through. As a kid we were friends with the local highway patrol here in Ohio and we would get deer meat from them from road kills lol! Our freezer was full of deer.
i thought i was crazy having 4 freezers - 1 huge chest in kitchen and 3 9 cub ft ones all over. and in need of more, oh and 3 fridges picking up another tomorrow for the hay shed and to be used for eggs.... now i know it is NOT just me. phew...
We had one chest freezer for the longest time then added an upright freezer which we don't care for, rather have a chest one. This year we added a third freezer, a chest one since we raise rabbit, chicken and goat for meat.
we have been raising pigs for a good ten years. I do make my own lard (leaf) but, have never taken the trotters. Do you ask for marrow pig bones? Do you make soup with them? Thank you, I hate wasting any parts just because I am unfamiliar with the usage. Thanks!
We definitely need to try the plywood trick for our freezers! Such a pain to have to search through everything. As far as saving the onion skins and trimmings goes, we did that but noticed something strange. Every time we add onion skins to our bone broth, it never gels. If we don't add the skins, it always gels. Not sure if it breaks down the collagen or what, but even my husband has commented on how strange it is.
I use so much of my freezer space for stock. I didn’t see any frozen broth/stock in your storage. It takes up so much room, even though I use it a lot in cooking. I’m thinking you must can your broth. I need to start doing this to free up space for meat. Thanks for doing this program.
Melissa, I am a new subscriber. I love this video. I seen you saved your bones for bone broth. Do you have a video on how that process works. And what you do with bone broth? Tfs jen in south dakota.
Do you talk anywhere about how you wrap each portion of meat to prevent freezer burn? When you use the butcher paper is there plastic wrap under the paper?
Onion skins are a great source of minerals! I add them to soups and broths too. All these things we were taught to throw out that are edible. Sad. Thank you for teaching people what they should be eating instead of tossing out.
When you don’t live close to a store, extra freezers are a must…. For us anyway 😉. Unfortunately mine are not as organized as your lolol. Great system 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Why do you vacuum seal some meat and not others? Thanks :) Have you considered insulating the pump house so you can store other things in there in the winter, like root veggies and keep the fridges cool in the summer? Less electricity used.
Depends upon the length of time likely to be frozen and preventing/decreasing likelihood of freezer burn when anticipating longer storage times whereas not necessary for those items likely to be eaten sooner in shorter time frame.
When you looked at your eggs made me think. Have you ever heard of "water glassing" them? I just recently saw an article of woman with another youtube do that. We have recently done freeze drying and i did two different batches of 56 eggs each, one scrambled then stored in 1/2gallon canning jar and the other where after freeze dried seperated whites and yolks for maybe cooking recipes later..
If it was me, i'd drill 1 to 1.5 inch holes in the wood of the freezer to make air circulation easier. Might be a good idea especially in those power outage moments.
I’ve always been told not to have a freezer out ‘side’ where freezing temperatures could happen. How harsh are your winters? Of course it could be that my thinking is outdated with the newer freezers
My roommate left our deep freezer unplugged. We lost the pig we butchered and made sausages with, a quarter cow, and a whole bunch of other meat. Can’t cry over spilt milk though. But dang, it really sucked.
The problem with having freezers is that the money that you save gets eaten up by the cost of electricity. I have also found that buying local cuts of meat from the farm is more expensive than buying from my local supermarket. Supermarkets buy in bulk which lowers their costs per unit while a farm does not have this advantage. The only way to get meats cheaper from the local farm is to buy whole or half cows but then you must pay for the electricity to store them for as long as a year and a half. That's a lot of electricity.
That what I was thinking. It is important to use a more efficient freezer if your electricity rates are high like in Europe. A solar PV system could lower it. Would like to find a freezer kit with a ground source and air source heat pump that would intelligently switch depending on the temperature to get maximum efficiency.
I organize my freezer too although it's probably a bit too OCD 😬😄 Anyhow, if you want to see it, here's the link to my video I made a few years back. The actual freezer time stamp starts at 12 min and 50 sec and ends at 17:15. Our storage has drastically increased since this video. 😄 th-cam.com/video/1jc8oBHoRJk/w-d-xo.html
not overpacking a freezer, lots of air is needed. cleaning off the frost often and maintenance on the unit. check the fans/refrigeration system and drains. many need to be defrosted and start over. Other than that, packing with the least amount of air is best, thicker plastic, we used to put fish frozen in one liter milk cartons so no air touches it.. freezing things whole, so less surface area is touching the cold air..
@@thequirkyhen2370 and a note to add to this; self defrosting freezers do very poorly in aces like the garage and shed. The defrosting cycles get messed up in cold areas.
After watching you for so long you have inspired me to start my own channel! I hope you will stop by sometime and let me know what you think. Re-Ritten Vintage Rescue
definitely not forever as the nutrients keep changing chemically and fading away. It's good to consume dried food within months after the drying process is complete
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I am so happy to see other people have a pork freezer, beef freezer, chicken freezer, and we also have one for rabbits and other frozen veggies, fruits, etc. I always used to think we were oddballs, lol.
Not oddballs, smart! :)
You’re really good at this. Feels like an informative PBS show.
Thank you!
Where is that link to your class. I love watching your videos. You are amazing. Dreams and wow. Thank you for sharing all your wealth of information ❤️🙏🔥 one day I will have a little more property to do more I pray 🙏. 🍓🐣
Can you tell me how to use an old fridge freezer? I out it in the garage but I found out that it did not keep the meat chickens I raised and they got ruined. I had to throw them away . I literally cried. I did not know that it would not good the temperature in the garage. I need to empty it out again before winter because it has other store bought meat in there etc food in there and it killed me to lose the ones I raised. It was a lot of work but I now can say I know how to do it and will again. My 9 year old helped me and we are hoping now for our first chicks to hatch from her pet bantam chick who decided to go broody. Kind of exciting and nerve-wracking cuz I think she's past the day of hatch and I saw life but never did this before. Looking in how to build a simple incubator or just wait. I don't know if she can keep them warm enough. And there's too many eggs so I will wait and maybe try the incubator next time since she can't keep too many eggs. I read only 3-4 but there's more. So I don't know which ones may have died? I don't know how to tell yet but I'm guessing if it's too much longer than they may have passed, but there was definitely something growing in there. I saw movement in one for sure and did the candling, I can see lots of development and veins and airsac etc but not sure yet if they will make it.
Love the dividers in the chest freezer, I'm going to do that. I do recommend keeping enough jars on hand to can what is in the freezer should things get bad but that's just the prepper in me :)
Hey, you know what's great? You actually have great, informative content. Most TH-cam "homesteaders" are using click bait, and other phony tactics to get views. I'm subbing to your channel.
Best phrase I've heard in a long time - "meat bonus" I wanna work there!
I just bought half a beef and put it in my freezer barley got it all in i got it off craigslist a farmer took 2 cows down and one of the buyers backed out so that would have been 2 whole cows and that was two much for him so i got it a really good deal i thank the lord i can look in my freezer and know there's a lot of food
My freezer is 37 inches long 20 inches wide 30 inches deep and it filled it to the top with nothing in it and a little my fridge freezer
Vacuum sealing is key. Love those dividers, Im gonna do that!
We always canned the lard to save space in the freezers. Please keep the good information coming! Blessings to all!
Gramma used to have a massive box freezer, I can’t wait to get one! I’ve never owned one myself. Great tip about the power, I have hurricane cooked through a small freezer when we lost power. I would be devastated to lose quarter cow
Would love to do this one day! We’re a military family so we move a lot and can never put down deep roots anywhere. We’re in Cali right now but moving to Kansas in a few months. We get Butcher Box delivered monthly which allows us to not have to buy much meat from the store. Thinking of finding a local farmer when we get to Kansas and seeing if we can do a cow share or something. We have a 7 cu ft freezer. Thank you for these videos!! You are so inspiring. :)
Love how you used plywood to create compartments! We have a separate freezer for each kind of meat (beef, pork, poultry, seafood/fish) plus one for veggies as well as one for storing homemade breads, stews, pre-cooked/prepped ingredients, freezer friendly left overs or make ahead casseroles, homemade microwave or oven bake "snacks" (hot pocket/hand pies/empanadas, pizza, burritos, etc.), and dairy. We keep bags of ice and space available to fit them in "just in case" of power outages and thermometers to monitor temps. The freezer for breads, dairy, cooked and prep items has been challenging to organize. We've tried baskets, boxes, etc. Your plywood compartments just might be the solution needed!
6 freezers! Wow!
@@jamjar5716 'Fraid so ... but after developing some mobility/degenerative issues ... freezing took over as our primary preservation means over time as lost more ability needed to spend long hours on feet, lifting, etc. needed for massive amounts of canning I used to do -- although still do some with a bit of help -- as well as dehydrating. And for bad days when not even up to cooking there are ready meals in freezer waiting for the guys because I cook extra of freezer friendly stuff on days I'm up for it. So over time we went from a single small chest freezer in the house to having several larger ones in a converted 2 car garage/out building.
It’s such a clever way to do it! And quite cheap too!
Is the wood pressure treated? Wondering if it will create mold eventually
This was amazing. I got my first quarter cow last year, and thought I was really doing something! I have a single 15cu ft chest freezer, but I'm only one person, so I think a quarter is enough.
Knowledgeable! Thank you for these videos. Please keep making them!
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Loved your video. I need to get organized like you. I tried freezing my extra eggs and didn't care for them. I also didn't like giving up my freezer space so I searched youtube for Waterglass eggs. It's how grandma keep eggs year round.
The eggs that I freeze I use for baking. Have you checked out my video - th-cam.com/video/ixIl_anrKvE/w-d-xo.html
I came across your channel and ended up watching several videos and subscribed to your channel. Thank you for all the great information!
I'm amazed at the color on those whole birds, our supermarket chicken has pale white skin.
~~~ We are so glad we watched your video. You and your husband are wise and helpful to us all out here in internetland..WONDERFUL every video our friends.
Love your videos...In watching this one I see you freeze eggs. I was wondering if you'd ever heard of or tried "waterglassing." My husband and I raised chickens for over 30 years. We had sporting/family camps on a remote lake in northern Maine. The grocery store was 32 miles away and running out of eggs wasn't a good idea. So in researching ways to keep them, not only for the times we were feeding a dozen or two people per meal but also for when our chickens went through a molt, I came upon an old time technique called waterglassing. It's incredibly easy, requires no space, no electricity, and keeps eggs fresh, safe and looking as well as tasting like newly laid eggs for A YEAR or MORE!. I purchase a gallon jug of sodium silicate- also known as cement sealer (!) about every 8-10 years at a cost of less than $20 a gallon. The formula I've used, though proportions vary slightly depending on the source, is one part sodium silicate to nine parts cold water, mixed well in a clean five gallon bucket with a lid. Into it are placed the wiped off but NOT washed eggs. This amount of solution will easily handle 15-20 dozen eggs. Keep the bucket in a cool-cold place that won'T freeze, like the basement or mudroom. Take eggs out as you need them, wash them off gently before using and you're good to go. I've spread the word whenever possible to chicken owners about the technique, and now that I'm an older widow, no longer raising chickens, much appreciate the fresh eggs people have stopped by to share with me as thanks for the information (and often the sodium silicate which I've given as a strange sort of gift many times :) Best regards, Kathy B
guidance.
Brilliant.
Katherine.....any thoughts on how this might work in a warm climate? We live in Hawaii where there is rarely a cool/cold spot other than refrigeration! Low 60's ( rarely) is as low as we go!! Otherwise 80's is the norn. Would appreciate any input!! Thanks!
@@tianakanelua6573 Gee, Tia, I've never given that any thought. But I wonder if something like a small "root cellar", if you also have some land you can dig in, might work. I don't know the ground temperature in Hawaii, and I'm guessing it varies according to altitude possibly, but my basement here is a steady 55 degrees. Is that a temp you could achieve by "planting" your bucket in the ground? We store root veggies that way in the north,
where winter temps often go to -20 degrees or lower. I've tried to locate online soil temps at different depths in Hawaii but not knowing where you live, I was unsuccessful. You might search this out knowing your specifics, or contact your local Cooperative Extension Service for help with this issue. I use mine in Maine all the time for issues like food preservation to making window quilts. It's always been a great resource, if not for answers, then where you might go to find them. Best of luck Tia :)
A lot of good info in your videos. Thanks for taking the time to put them together. You never know we may have to go back in time when people had to be self reliant.
You all do very good, I love to watch your videos
Good idea with the different compartments. I could really uses the organization. I know which freezer something is in but, rooting around to find what I'm looking for!...yeah, my life.....I may just have to use this brilliant idea. And, yes, I said brilliant!
I'm really learning a lot on this channel ! Thank you só much for sharing, and greetings from The Netherlands!
Great video !!! I love your content. You have all of this down to a science. I subscribed !!!
It's great to have bags of pork fat available for when you have burger ground (beef, elk, deer).
Very nice meat stock pile! Great little organizers from that wood you made. 😍
I bet all the boys wish they could have snagged you. One lucky husband. You do so much with so little. We’re all going to have to learn what you know real damn fast. I’m whiteknuckling it as Harvest Right has a 10 week back up (white comes a little sooner so I got that one), the garden is nothing but a bunch of seedlings 🌱, and I know nothing about solar to keep the freezers going. At least I learned canning from you. Only have 1000 hard won canning lids (ordering as little as 6 boxes up to 12 then checking the shelves while I’m there) driving to every Walmart within an hour the past few weeks) so ordered the Harvest something longer lasting ones.
I wish I grew up in your family where you gradually just know everything from watching it be done. I hope there is time to teach my 13 year old daughter so she can teach her children. Since you can’t make more of you maybe you can train some of your best students to then go train others. Like a certificate program showing they were trained by THE Melissa K Norris. For hypnosis it was Deloris Cannon but then she died so I was trained by Alba Weinman. For cutting edge psychology it’s Sue Johnson, I have been trained by her personally and has marriage counseling from her right hand man, George Fuller.
The idea is you take the best of the best and you learn from them every little detail with an engineers mind, which I have, then you do and teach when you’ve gotten excellent.
George told me to get out (sociopath) which you aren’t allowed to say. (Emotionally focused couples therapy is 72% successful where normal is 32%.) He’s out of my house now. I doubt people will re-elect him as a judge when they find out who he actually is and the things he has done. I hope I live long enough to get it out there now that he knows it’s coming.
Agreed!
We also have multiple freezers, although all of ours are uprights. I have a beef freezer (fits 1/2 beef), one for pork, one for chicken and "ready-made" items (I do big-batch cooking and make-ahead freezer meals), one that I share with my mom so I only have 2 shelves plus the door but we keep bread/tortillas, baked goods and butter in here, and one in a fridge/freezer for fruit/veggies/juice. I put post-it notes on the outside of the door so I know where the sirloin steak is located compared to the stew meat. It also helps that my family has been trained to look at the post-it notes first before opening the door and standing in front of the freezer searching for items! :-)
I found this so interesting Melissa! Thanks for sharing :)
16 down likes? Perhaps they are vegan lol! Great content and character as a person. Your Heart and character shines through. As a kid we were friends with the local highway patrol here in Ohio and we would get deer meat from them from road kills lol! Our freezer was full of deer.
Hope you don’t do it with humans 😂
i thought i was crazy having 4 freezers - 1 huge chest in kitchen and 3 9 cub ft ones all over. and in need of more, oh and 3 fridges picking up another tomorrow for the hay shed and to be used for eggs.... now i know it is NOT just me. phew...
I have 2 but this makes me feel like I need another!
@@LifeWithMrsB We had two also but kept running out of room so this year bought a third! Our garage is full.
We have 2 fridges, 2 ice chest and 1 mini fridge lol.
Find a good tips thank you for sharing God bless prayers for you and your family
Thank you and you as well!
You have such great info here. Thanks for sharing!
Your dividers are a good idea
Super helpful and saves time on me digging!
Great video!! I really enjoyed it.
We had one chest freezer for the longest time then added an upright freezer which we don't care for, rather have a chest one. This year we added a third freezer, a chest one since we raise rabbit, chicken and goat for meat.
This video is making me hungry...🥓
(Frozen eggs for the winter months - were they cooked or raw.? What's the process for that. Great idea) thanks
we have been raising pigs for a good ten years. I do make my own lard (leaf) but, have never taken the trotters. Do you ask for marrow pig bones? Do you make soup with them? Thank you, I hate wasting any parts just because I am unfamiliar with the usage. Thanks!
We definitely need to try the plywood trick for our freezers! Such a pain to have to search through everything. As far as saving the onion skins and trimmings goes, we did that but noticed something strange. Every time we add onion skins to our bone broth, it never gels. If we don't add the skins, it always gels. Not sure if it breaks down the collagen or what, but even my husband has commented on how strange it is.
I still get a gel on mine with the onion skins 🤷♀️
Wow Melissa awesome stash of meat!!!great job
Thank you!
I use so much of my freezer space for stock. I didn’t see any frozen broth/stock in your storage. It takes up so much room, even though I use it a lot in cooking. I’m thinking you must can your broth. I need to start doing this to free up space for meat. Thanks for doing this program.
Melissa, I am a new subscriber. I love this video. I seen you saved your bones for bone broth. Do you have a video on how that process works. And what you do with bone broth? Tfs jen in south dakota.
Welcome! So excited to have you here! You can find some of my videos on bone broth here - th-cam.com/users/MelissaKNorrissearch?query=broth
I use grocery bags and tag the handle with masking tape what is in that bag and when I put it in there makes things much easier to put in and out
Have you thought about getting a freeze drier? They're pretty affordable now and also help with food preservation while maintaining nutritional value.
Yes, we're getting one this spring but I still won't use it for certain cuts.
Thanks to you I'm now freezing all my eggs the same way .. my question is how long can l leave them in the freezer ????
Wow, I'm definitely having freezer envy, lol ;-)
Do you talk anywhere about how you wrap each portion of meat to prevent freezer burn?
When you use the butcher paper is there plastic wrap under the paper?
Onion skins are a great source of minerals! I add them to soups and broths too. All these things we were taught to throw out that are edible. Sad. Thank you for teaching people what they should be eating instead of tossing out.
When you don’t live close to a store, extra freezers are a must…. For us anyway 😉. Unfortunately mine are not as organized as your lolol. Great system 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Why do you vacuum seal some meat and not others? Thanks :)
Have you considered insulating the pump house so you can store other things in there in the winter, like root veggies and keep the fridges cool in the summer? Less electricity used.
Depends upon the length of time likely to be frozen and preventing/decreasing likelihood of freezer burn when anticipating longer storage times whereas not necessary for those items likely to be eaten sooner in shorter time frame.
Thank you!!
When you looked at your eggs made me think. Have you ever heard of "water glassing" them? I just recently saw an article of woman with another youtube do that. We have recently done freeze drying and i did two different batches of 56 eggs each, one scrambled then stored in 1/2gallon canning jar and the other where after freeze dried seperated whites and yolks for maybe cooking recipes later..
Do you freeze chicken breast, thigh etc separately? Or do you always cook with the whole chicken?
Is the Masterclass signup still open? Thanks for all the great information!
Yes, the class is next week so it's open!
Great video ! Please, what cut do you use for pot roast ? Thank you. :)
How do we store meat in a freezer?? Vacuum seal, plastic bags or white paper wrapping?
If it was me, i'd drill 1 to 1.5 inch holes in the wood of the freezer to make air circulation easier. Might be a good idea especially in those power outage moments.
I’ve always been told not to have a freezer out ‘side’ where freezing temperatures could happen. How harsh are your winters? Of course it could be that my thinking is outdated with the newer freezers
It's in a building it's not outside. But we get temps in the winter in the low teens sometimes but more normal for overnight lows to be in the 20's.
Im saving money to move out of my overcrowded city and im looking at places... NC, TN, GA to homestead. Anyone have any good suggestions?
Wow...awesome
Crab omelet and crab Benedict both with hollandaise!!
Yum!
We had a butcher give us old meat and not from the animal we took them. Any tips on this?
Your first freeze and then vaccum seal? Why not vaccum seal first?
Melissa... you look fantastic with those glasses... cover girl!
Please tell Chuck i said Hi!... Big fan
What is the temperature range of ur freezer???
How do you use lard in cooking? Like you would any other fat like coconut oil or olive oil? In place of shortening?
Yes, in place of shortening. I use it in pie crusts, tortillas and for sautéing
If you trim off the fat you can freeze dry it and store it in the house without the freezer. You just need to make sure you get the fat off.
Do you mean freeze dry the meat or freeze dry the fat?
@@MFV77 Fat doesn't freeze dry. Trim off the fat and throw the meat in the freeze dryer and then put it in mylar bags with an o2 absorber.
My roommate left our deep freezer unplugged. We lost the pig we butchered and made sausages with, a quarter cow, and a whole bunch of other meat. Can’t cry over spilt milk though. But dang, it really sucked.
Ouch! I totally feel for you! 🥺🥺
The problem with having freezers is that the money that you save gets eaten up by the cost of electricity. I have also found that buying local cuts of meat from the farm is more expensive than buying from my local supermarket. Supermarkets buy in bulk which lowers their costs per unit while a farm does not have this advantage. The only way to get meats cheaper from the local farm is to buy whole or half cows but then you must pay for the electricity to store them for as long as a year and a half. That's a lot of electricity.
That what I was thinking. It is important to use a more efficient freezer if your electricity rates are high like in Europe. A solar PV system could lower it.
Would like to find a freezer kit with a ground source and air source heat pump that would intelligently switch depending on the temperature to get maximum efficiency.
Depending on the size and model, many freezers only cost ~$20-30 a year to run. The largest (24 cu ft) I've seen costs ~$60.
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And that depends on the cost of power in your area. That cost varies widely.
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what state is this? looks beautiful
Good stuff C'mon!!
That my kind of pog!!!
Pig
I have tried canning various cuts of meat but I've found that my family doesn't care for the texture so freezing our our meat is our only option.
Looking for the link for your program.
Found it
I organize my freezer too although it's probably a bit too OCD 😬😄 Anyhow, if you want to see it, here's the link to my video I made a few years back. The actual freezer time stamp starts at 12 min and 50 sec and ends at 17:15. Our storage has drastically increased since this video. 😄 th-cam.com/video/1jc8oBHoRJk/w-d-xo.html
nice!
Have you ever considered freeze drying?
Yes will be doing it this summer
Eggs stay fresh when kept at room temp up to 6 months. After that they start to ferment
Thats if you don't wash off the membrane on the outside of the egg. Which most Americans do wash it off.
where does all the Wagyu A5 go?
Have you got any tips to prevent freezer burn its a constant battle with me
not overpacking a freezer, lots of air is needed. cleaning off the frost often and maintenance on the unit. check the fans/refrigeration system and drains. many need to be defrosted and start over. Other than that, packing with the least amount of air is best, thicker plastic, we used to put fish frozen in one liter milk cartons so no air touches it.. freezing things whole, so less surface area is touching the cold air..
Self-defrosting freezers have a higher rate of freezer burn. If your freezer isn't a manual defrost this may be part of your problem.
@@thequirkyhen2370 and a note to add to this; self defrosting freezers do very poorly in aces like the garage and shed. The defrosting cycles get messed up in cold areas.
I found that when I used dividers, my freezer developed frost build up.
Wow .......can you freeze chicken eggs ?
Yes you can, there's a video here and a full blog post on my website on how to preserve eggs
@@MelissaKNorris Thanx M..
Pizza is NOT junk food! 😁
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I’m ready as well bc I have years worth of ramen and microwaveables.
After watching you for so long you have inspired me to start my own channel! I hope you will stop by sometime and let me know what you think. Re-Ritten Vintage Rescue
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Awesome video. But you probably shouldn't store veggies and meats in the same freezer.
They're totally sealed up and frozen, it's fine
u da best ^_^
Pog
Back in ancient times meats were dried and kept forever.
definitely not forever as the nutrients keep changing chemically and fading away. It's good to consume dried food within months after the drying process is complete
@@dontaccoll yes, histamine increases. Freezing slows it down a bit though, but not forever.
@@dana102083 thanks dana
Vegan here😳 touched the wrong place on keyboard 😬
Do you name your animals?
If they're to eat only things like TBone or Hamburger
@@MelissaKNorris lol that's mean
OMG.... can we clone you Melisa????
U cant be talking about 365 days as a year,That will last my family a lifetime lol
Stardew valley anyone?
What is your secret????.... Younger and more beautiful everyday!!!
Probably good and clean living, hard work, and gratitude. ❤️
Good food and active lifestyle.
She’s not that old, guessing not more than 43
Could I clone you?
Funny how you call pizza junk food but then you LOVE you bacon!
Store bought pizza is junk food, organic pasture raised bacon is not. There's a vast difference between the two from a nutritional standpoint.
Give me some bacon
Our family's favorite!