Can you refreeze cooked meat?

I would think so, they sell pre cooked BBQ pork in the freezer section

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I've got some BBQ pulled pork that I had in the freezer. I thawed it out in the fridge. Will it be ok if I put it back in the freezer? TIA

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Probably but I wouldn't freeze it a 3rd time.

I think its fine.

As an aside it took me a long time to figure out that

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TIA

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wasn't talking about me.

General rule is never re freeze after defrosting.

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General rule is never re freeze after defrosting.

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I usually follow this rule with a protien(roast,chicken,etc), but with a gumbo,stew,soup,ect., I'll recook it for a few minutes, then cool and refreeze...rarely happens but I've done it..and I'm still here.

It won't hurt you, but the quality may be well below sub par.

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So it was cooked, frozen, thawed, now frozen again?

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Yeah, I had some people coming to stay at the house, but they had to cancel. I had taken it out to make sandwiches for them.

Gotta draw the line somewhere.

I'm a freeze one time kind of guy...
I tend to look at it like beer for some reason. You don't want your beer going hot then cold then hot then cold again...

There is a reason not to refreeze frozen meats. During the initial thawing process the bacteria that was dormant in the freezer become active again and multiply. If you use some then refreeze the bacteria level can get too high the next time you thaw. You would have to heat it up to boiling point between each thaw to start the process over again. The quality of the meat would suffer considerably.

Use your judgement, but you must heat to killing level between thaws.