It's so disheartening to be on your way home from work only to realize that you have nothing to cook because your meat is still sitting nicely tucked in the freezer. You kick yourself the whole car ...

A person pulls a pack of ground beef out of the fridge - New Africa/Shutterstock We've all been there: you're all ready to get cooking when you realize — gasp — you never took your ground beef out of ...

Ground beef is an essential ingredient in many delicious meals, so it's best to always keep a pack or two in the freezer for last-minute weeknight dinners. It's easy to forget to defrost your ground ...

Flat-packing ground beef before freezing will make for quicker thawing. Thawing in the microwave is the fastest method, but requires you to flip and rotate the beef as it thaws, as well as cook it ...

Ground beef can be safely defrosted in the refrigerator, a bowl of cold water, or in the microwave. Defrosting in the microwave is the fastest choice, but then you must cook the beef right away. If ...

We've all been there: you're all ready to get cooking when you realize — gasp — you never took your ground beef out of the freezer. There are various ways to try to rectify the situation, each with ...