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How long can you keep a frozen turkey breast in the freezer before it goes bad?
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∙ 13y ago
For best taste, eat your commercially frozen turkey within 6 months. It will be safe to eat for much longer than that since pathogenic bacteria will not grow at proper freezer temperatures - although it may not be as tender and juicy. And this is assuming it has never been defrosted. The quality will also depend on how well the food has been wrapped.
Chemical changes - such as rancidity - can also occur over time in the freezer, making the meat inedible.
So the turkey could keep well for longer than 6 months or even a year, but there is no point to hanging onto it that long.
Alternatively, look on the plastic bag the turkey came in and it will tell you.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoThe time to actual spoilage is uncertain and variable depending upon conditions like how it was thawed, what the bacterial load was before freezing, packaging and the temperature where the thawed turkey has been stored.
It should be cooked within a couple days of thawing.
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∙ 13y agoIf it is kept solidly frozen, it will keep (in theory) indefinitely. But in fact, it is fine to eat for six months after you have frozen it, but poultry deteriorates in flavor rapidly after that. After a year in the freezer, it would be rather tasteless when cooked, and after 18 months, it would be unpleasantly tasteless, though still technically "safe".
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∙ 15y agoSpoilage time will depend on several things including the temperature of storage and the initial bacterial load in the turkey. Turkey should be cooked within a couple days of thawing.
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∙ 11y agoIn the fridge, a thawed turkey will last 4-5 days Cooked, it will last 3-4
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∙ 15y agoIf turkey has been frozen, how long after removing from deep freeze may it be good?
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