why is it bad to refreeze meat after thawing it?

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why is it bad to refreeze meat after thawing it?

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Answer 1

The cells in meat are mainly water. When water freezes it turns to ice, and those ice crystals expand, bursting open the cell. If you freeze meat just once, the damage isn’t so bad that you notice… *too much*.

Now, freeze the meat again, and you really start to notice the difference. Many more cells have burst open from the freezing process and the meat’s texture becomes noticeably “mushier” and the taste has changed as well.