Re-freezing

[infernalis]

I don't get the logic in that. I thaw in hot water and the food is completely thawed in a minute or two. There's no time for bacteria growth. If the snakes don't eat all of it, I refreeze immediately. Never had any issues doing that. Besides, garters can and do eat carrion in the wild. Rotten, stinking nasty dead stuff. It doesn't hurt them any more than it hurts a crow to eat roadkill off the pavement.

Thanks, exactly what I was going to say....

[Didymus20X6]

I have good knives. I often cut the tilapia while it is still frozen, and defrost the pieces in hot water. Actually, works much faster than trying to thaw whole filets. But I also refreeze the strips if the snakes don't eat them all. But as much of a pig Little Dude is when she isn't shedding or gravid, that usually isn't a problem.

[infernalis]

I buy my trout at the seafood market, fresh killed, so I just cut it up and freeze it in small portions.

When chopping it fine for babies, I do it while frozen, it producws very small bits easily.