How long will it take to thaw a 15lb full packer?

[sandyut]

I have a 15lb FP in the freezer at 0 degrees. my refer runs at 37 degrees. How long should I allow for the FP to thaw? I froze on purchase date. I think the sell by was a couple weeks past the purch date.

Im thinking 5 days? could it take more than that?

It was on sale for $1.99 / LB. so i bought two cooked one froze one. wife is getting twitchy about the freezer being too full. so tis time to cook the second.

thanks!

 

[TNJAKE]

My experience has been about 5lbs per 24hr. So 3-4 days

 

[tag0401]

I’ll second what @TNJAKE said

 

[SmokinVOLfan]

What Jake said.

Man you hit up that $1.99lb Kroger sale a couple weeks ago? I picked up two too!

 

[tallbm]

I have a 15lb FP in the freezer at 0 degrees. my refer runs at 37 degrees. How long should I allow for the FP to thaw? I froze on purchase date. I think the sell by was a couple weeks past the purch date.

Im thinking 5 days? could it take more than that?

It was on sale for $1.99 / LB. so i bought two cooked one froze one. wife is getting twitchy about the freezer being too full. so tis time to cook the second.

thanks!

I always try for 5 days minimum for 20lbs of meat/turkey.
Since this is a cryovac meat I shoot for throwing the meat in the fridge roughly 7 days before I want to cook that way I dont have to worry about it plus I dont have time during the week to smoke it anyhow so its easy to throw it a weekend early so the following weekend i can smoke it :)

 

[sandyut]

an you hit up that $1.99lb Kroger sale a couple weeks ago? I picked up two too!

Totally man! I was out in the yard and my neighbor just got back from kroger and was like "do you like brisket? Kroger has them on sale." he smokes too. I dropped everything and ran for it!

 

[sandyut]

good deal guys. I'll pull it this Sunday shooting for a next Saturday cook.

 

[SmokinAl]

If your freezer is at 0, then I would give it a week to thaw in the fridge, if it thaws a bit earlier, it’s no big deal. It will stay in the fridge for several days unthawed.
Al

 

[sandyut]

If your freezer is at 0, then I would give it a week to thaw in the fridge, if it thaws a bit earlier, it’s no big deal. It will stay in the fridge for several days unthawed.

thanks Al. Ill pull it tomorrow. I would rather it sit in the refer thawed than deal with a frozen center.