Freezing previously frozen (but cooked) meat

[Polly D]

I'm never sure about this one. My mum is too relaxed about these things so I think I might be too.

I defrosted some chicken breasts yesterday, made a whole load of wierd chicken/apple/veg rissoles - shallow fried - and am now wondering if I can freeze them as there are too many for one small boy to eat in a day.

What do you think?

[apenn]

I freeze cooked thinks that were previously frozen when uncooked all the time. Never had a problem.

-A

[Smiler]

Doesn't sound like a good plan!

[melbourne groover]

I do it also with no issues (so far ;-) Have you googled it?

[KateW]

It's absolutely fine. Just make sure you re-heat them again thoroughly.

[mich]

It's fine to freeze them, like KateW mentioned defrost them throughly and make make sure you re-heat them properly. But once you have defrosted it, don't re-freeze it!!

[Ant]

Mrs Ant would have all sorts of heeby-jeebies about this. I think you can probably get away with one further refreeze. Proper defrost/reheat of course.

[edanna]

Yes it's ok if you defrost and reheat safely. See advice on www.eatwell.gov.uk/asksam/keepingfoodsafe/asksamstoringpreparing/#A410633

sorry I couldn't do a proper hyperlink on my phone.

[Pickle]

Yep, absolutely fine, just reheat throughly when the time comes to eat them.

[reetpetite]

If you mean they are frozen raw then defrosted and cooked then no problem with freezing.

[Polly D]

Thanks all! Phew. Think he would have been mightily sick of the damn things for 8 meals in a row: safely tucked up in freezer now.