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Freeze Ground Meat in Portions

ob Kochersberger of Raleigh, N.C., likes to make stir-fries and other recipes that call for just a small amount of ground meat. Rather than defrosting a whole pound of meat for the recipe, he divides his packages of meat into equal-size balls, freezes them in a muffin tin, and then transfers them to a food storage bag. This allows him to thaw one or several balls at a time, depending on how much his recipe calls

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