Fresh-meat moon cakes require high ambient temperature. Considering the taste and food freshness, it is best to cook and eat them now, and the unfinished moon cakes should be put into the refrigerator in time for cold storage. The person in charge of Wangjiasha Head Office said that generally, fresh meat moon cakes can be stored for one day at 25℃, while they can be stored for about two to three days in a refrigerator at 4℃–5℃. Some consumers think that the shelf life can be greatly extended by putting it in the refrigerator, and some even put it for more than a week. This is a wrong practice. Even if the mooncakes are not finished, they should not be stored in the refrigerator for more than three days, otherwise they will go bad easily.

Tips

Not all moon cakes are suitable for storage in the refrigerator, but some of them need to be stored in the refrigerator due to different fillings, such as ice crust and fresh meat stuffing. Attention, when storing, consider using plastic wrap for packaging, and at the same time control the temperature, which should not be too low.

When storing moon cakes, it is not advisable to put them together with other foods and sundries, so as to avoid cross-talk and lose their proper taste and characteristics. In order to ensure the fresh quality of moon cakes, when buying boxed moon cakes or bulk moon cakes, the production date or factory date should be clearly seen so as to grasp the shelf life.

Can fresh meat moon cakes be frozen?

If the moon cakes wrapped by yourself are not baked, they can be frozen in the refrigerator, and if they are bought, they can be frozen.

after each fresh-meat moon cake is finished, it goes into the freezer instead of the oven. After quick freezing and setting, put it into a fresh-keeping box and store it in the freezer.

The shelf life of bulk fresh meat moon cakes will be greatly shortened because there will be no preservative additives and no packaging. Depending on the ambient temperature, the shelf life of cooked food in bulk varies from 1 to 5 days. Therefore, it is best to sell fresh moon cakes and eat them now, and don't leave them for too long before eating them. Meat goes bad easily. It is recommended to keep it in the refrigerator for a long time.