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We always vacuum seal our birds; you think freezing in water is better?


I do both, depending on how much I have and what it is. When venison or pig comes back from the processor in plastic wrap and butcher paper, I vacuum bag all the butcher's packages to help it keep longer; seems to work. For birds, I will vacuum bag if there are a lot of them (my friends hunt but don't cook so I get a lot of their birds). If it's just my birds, I usually brine them for a few days, then rinse and freeze in water in plastic tubs (like Tupperware). I used to fill zip-lock bags with water and birds, but that did not seem to protect the birds as well as do the tubs; need to completely surround the meat with water, and the extra thickness of the plastic walls on the tubs seems to do a better job of keeping air away from the meat than do the bags. The tubs take up more freezer room than do the bags, but the water freeze seems to keep the meat better, longer.