HOW LONG YOUR FOOD ACTUALLY LASTS IN THE FREEZER

BY LEE BRESLOUER and Thrillist

Stop treating the food in your freezer like it’s going to stay good forever. Your freezer is not a cryonic chamber, and your food is not Walt Disney’s head. Unlike Walt, who will live forever, the food in your freezer doesn’t stay edible until the end of time — it greatly reduces in quality so much you wouldn’t want to eat it. So we created a handy chart to show you how long it remains at optimal flavor with the help of the USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service’s FoodKeeper (note that this doesn’t mean the food will be unsafe to eat, but that it will probably be super gross, especially if you don’t use a fancy vacuum sealer). Print it out, stick it to the fridge with magnets, and never eat a freezer-burned sausage again.