Frozen meat 6 months

In a decent freezer should be fine but fish deteriorates more in taste quality over a period than meat. Aim to stick it in something with a sauce maybe.

Freezers differ too, the standard half and half I don't find nearly as good as a standalone freezer however really it's only going to be quality affected by the time lapse assuming it is well packaged and airtight. Freezer burn on foods again makes them taste nasty, won't kill you but not as nice tastewise as properly stored.

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I can't imagine it will taste too nice! Fish isn't great for long term storage and oily fish even worse I find, texture changes to very dry and over the top fishy taste, nothing like fresh fish. Also quality of packaging and freezer comes into it but the average domestic freezer will not preserve fish quality for longer than few months in my experience. I have a very good chest freezer and package stuff well but would not hold oily fish longer than 3 months and ideally I would use it up before that time as I don't like the change in texture, probably better in stronger flavoured sauce dishes too.

The fact that it's not cut up would help with preserving as less surface area to be tainted by freezer burn if it happens, best thing is thaw it and cook and see are you happy with taste, lots of heavily flavoured salmon dishes that would hide a less than perfect taste these days, be a shame to waste it! Was watching a good recipe the other morning on Ireland am with lots of flavour.

Exactly, it's not a food safety issue once it's been kept frozen, it's a taste issue!

Plus of course the hidden cost of keeping a freezer on! I have recently got rid of an old freezer (I had two anyway) that I was storing a lot of 'just in case' sort of food in, well after doing the electricity monitor on it I discovered it was costing quite a bit to run, definitely not worth paying for storing the food I had in it. So now I have used up as much as I can and am sticking with the one freezer with more cost effective stuff in it.

I had two full ones but still the older of the two was using 3 times the power of the newer one despite the newer one being much bigger. I monitored it's power usage for several days and yes there were very low periods but other times high. The age of the freezer was obviously the issue and newer ones are more efficient, similar ones new showed a much lower kw usage per annum.

Anyway it's gone now, sold it off on FB for 50 quid to a lady wanting to store horse feed in it, a great recycling use for it!