I always keep steaks froze in my freezer to have on hand when I want them.

Prime rib is just rib eyes steaks in a unsliced group. Cut between the bones and you will have individual steaks.

I agree with Sherry regarding the steaks. For a whole roast, pat it dry with paper towels, wrap tightly with plastic wrap then foil or put it in a freezer bag. Thaw it the fridge…2-3 days depending on size. Bring to room temp before roasting. Fresh vs freezing is always best, but, yes, freezing is fine. Make sure your freezer’s no more than 0°.

Beef on sale? Ok. I almost never buy beef at the store because we have our own small herd of Angus cross and process one every 18 months or so and I keep a side. We always have the rib loin cut into bone-in steaks.

I wouldn't try keeping it frozen for than a couple months unless you have a vacuum sealer that you can use to keep the air/freezer burn out. If you can seal it, it should last for 6+ months without a problem.

I use Food Saver for long term and just the grocery packaging for less.

I used to process the deer my husband brought home. Food Saver meat is good almost forever in a freezer, not a refrigerator/freezer, but a 0* freezer. I have a GE garage ready freezer.

The enemies of frozen anything are air and a freeze/thaw cycle. Get rid of the air in a package and eliminate the temp change.

When freezing meat it's best to store them in a deep freezer rather than a self-defrosting fridge freezer. As chloebud says best to keep the temp below 0F to avoid those defrosting cycles.

This is a link from Lobel’s Prime Meats in NYC…a good source. They mention cutting it into individual pieces, but I’ve frozen a small rib roast (2-to-3 bone) with very good results.

Meat Storage/Freezing

Well, I'm back from the grocery stores prime rib-less. One store didn't have any, the other wasn't any sort of deal.

But I did score a 10# Butterball fresh turkey for $5 (!) and a couple of chuck roasts at $5.99/lb, which is a terrific price nowadays (around here, anyway). All home and tucked away in the freezer :0)

Sounds good to me, porkchop!

Regarding prime rib, a family member tried to get one on Tuesday for Christmas Eve. Nothing available. Finally found a 5-bone roast that weighed about 13 1/2 lbs. but costly at $25/lb.🥴

That's outrageous chloebud! The bones alone probably account for at least $50 of the cost. Not many years ago I would buy whole ribeye loins for $5/lb and get around 20 steaks from it.

I have not bought anything but hamburger or pot roast for almost a year. The orices are outrageous! They can feed the beef to the dogs!

Yes, beef has gone up quite a bit. I use mostly chuck roast and ground beef and won't buy if not on sale, and even then the sales aren't always that great. I will spend on good ($$$) steaks from the local butcher shop -- it's a few times a year splurge for just the two of us. :0)

"dogs

ok I know this is a bit of a diversion, I'll delete it porkchop if you want:"

^^ Lucille -- please delete and make your own thread on dog food. It isn't related to this post, and you'll probably get more replies anyway with a dedicated dog food post.

Same here. Mainly chuck roast and ground chuck or sirloin. I'm getting tired of chuck though. It's getting iffy qualitywise with the ground beef too. I don't mind paying more for good quality, but I get miffed when the good stuff is bad. I once browned some for tacos, and the beef was so bad, it had ropey looking shreds in it. They looked like tendons or some horrid thing. Shudder. I know that some would say, well, "grind your own then." I may end up doing that someday, but it's like carving whole, roasted chicken. Kind of more work than I want to do.