Fridge burn?

[cjsmith]

Put a pound of ground beef in a self-defrost freezer and pretty soon it'll be brown around the edges.

Put it in the fridge and sooner or later you'll see a similar brown. I don't think my fridge crosses the freezing point, not since we lost an expensive bottle of insulin to that very thing and messed with the thermostat a tad. Is the blood simply draining out of the tissue? What's going on there?

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh interesting. I haven't had that problem. (Well, corned beef is a whole different question. I mean with regular "plain" cuts of meat.) I'm totally a well-done type, probably traumatized from living in France, but I have no problem getting things to go brown.