Made six pounds of venison breakfast sausage using Excalibur spices bought here and adding bacon trimmings for the fat. Some I've made in the past was way too lean, so I think I bumped the fat up to 30% in this batch, but I'm sure it wasn't higher. For what it's worth, the bacon trmmings came from the freezer and were hard as a rock. I kept a pound or two of the sausage in the fridge after making it. The rest I patted out, put between waxed paper, then inside a Ziploc bag and into the freezer. This was 4-6 weeks ago. I just went to the freezer to retrieve some of the sausage and was shocked to find it wasn't frozen, at least not like the other meat in the freezer. I went ahead and fried up a pound of it and it was fine in taste and appearance ... and I didn't die.
I moved the remaining sausage to a different part of the freezer and made 100% sure the freezer sealed tight. That was 3-4 days ago. Today I checked and that sausage still isn't frozen hard. I searched here and found a few threads dealing with frozen sausage, but nothing that really matches my question. Can someone tell me what I've run into here? Thanks in advance.
I moved the remaining sausage to a different part of the freezer and made 100% sure the freezer sealed tight. That was 3-4 days ago. Today I checked and that sausage still isn't frozen hard. I searched here and found a few threads dealing with frozen sausage, but nothing that really matches my question. Can someone tell me what I've run into here? Thanks in advance.