How long can a brisket be frozen and still be tasty?

[WilliamKY]

One of my coworkers gave me a free 12lb brisket today. The sell by date is 4-16-21. He froze it the day he bought it so it's been frozen for 2.5yrs. It is vacuum sealed. He never had time to cook it and forgot about it. I told him I'd take it. You guys think it's still good?. Thanks.

 

[SmokinAussie]

Absolutely fine.

 

[JbTech]

Absolutely fine.

Good to know!
I've got one in the deep freezer still in cryovac from around the same timeframe! :clap2:

 

[Moose]

I had a prime brisket in the deep freeze some years back I had forgotten about that was over 2 years old. It did have a bit of freezer burn, which I removed. One of the best briskets I've cooked to date!

 

[Smoking Piney]

Vac sealed - good to go.

 

[Callahan-que]

pretty much indefinately

 

[thirdeye]

Fun fact: That brisket has been in the freezer longer than the steer it came from was on the hoof.

It will be fine. Do a refrigerator thaw and as a minimum I would inject some jazzy beef broth before cooking.

 

[toys4dlr]

Found 2 SRF wagyu black in the bottom of my chest freezer, from my comp days. Last comp I did was in 2018. Lol. Cooked them up when some college friends came over and they were great.

 

[Itsdone]

Its fine. I would eat a woolly mammoth thats been frozen in permafrost for 50,000 years.