Originally Posted by
6x47
It's not fascination, just science. By removing access to oxygen, the goods ( be they meat or fish) are spared much of the spoilage you normally get and clean meat once vac-packed can be left in the fridge for weeks. I currently have a large roasting dish of backsteak chunks sitting in the fridge and have asked my wife to put them in the freezer tomorrow as I'm off fishing. That 5-7 day total after shooting them def makes for more tender eating.
As all fishermen with vac packers will know, the rate of deterioration in the freezer is massively reduced. My wife discovered a buried pack of gurnard recently- was ten months old and still mint.