When you order from Costco and Package up the meet into usable servings it takes effort. Here are some Costco packaging Hacks to help you get through your processing of a large order.
- Calculate how many bags
- Look at the weight ahead of time, or the number of cups and just write on the bags in advance. This makes it a log easier than labeling after the bags have meat/stock in them.
- Use wax paper to extend you countertop
- When you are working with meat it’s easy to make a mess. Make your life easy and give yourself a ton of counter space by using wax paper/plastic wrap to make for easy cleaning.
- Go Vampire – Keep the blood
- When butchering larger pieces of meat they often have blood in the packaging. This is an amazing additive to create a rich gravy. I highly suggest draining the blood into a bowl and keeping it for another day.
- Get Creative
- Do not be afraid of immediately turning your leftover meat scraps into a meal for another day.
- Below is an example. I had some leftover ground beef but it wasn’t enough to keep in it’s own. I could either make all my ground beef bags more than a pound, or I could premake some Burgers. I use a convenient freeze tray here but you could just use a cookie sheet and form your burgers on that, freeze them on that, and then after frozen bag them up for later use. (Freezing them before putting them in a bag will prevent them from sticking.
- Lets not forget the water trick we’ve talked about in the past.
- Closing the bag %90 of the way,
- Dunk the bag in the water and it will force air out of the bag.
- Completely close the bag.
