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Hi all;
Liz was struggling to find unusual gifts this year.
Apparently, she has had this defrosting tray saved for months "thinking about it"
https://bluespatula.com/products/defrosting-plate-board

This thing is great! So simple no power is needed.
An aluminum tray with rubber feet to isolate it. Shallow channels for airflow.
The aluminum absorbs and transfers temperature differences quite well.
That's it, couldn't be simpler.

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I had one of those years ago. It went by the wayside when we sold the homestead.

Yes, those aluminum plates work.

My go-to now is an empty meat package sitting on the counter with whatever I want to defrost.

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Looks like you need to start with something that has a nice flat surface to start with. Most of the meat we have in our freezer is homekill and the packaging is, shall we say, lumpy. So there would be very little direct contact between the frozen food and the plate and not much advantage. But I can see how this would be a game changer for stuff that has the right form factor.

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Phil Stevens wrote:Looks like you need to start with something that has a nice flat surface to start with. Most of the meat we have in our freezer is homekill and the packaging is, shall we say, lumpy. So there would be very little direct contact between the frozen food and the plate and not much advantage. But I can see how this would be a game changer for stuff that has the right form factor.

Actually it is probably better than you think even with lumpy meat as you get air flow around the lumps but more importantly you get a highly heat conductive radiator to carry heat in and under the frozen stuff meaning it is being thawed well from another side. Between high conductivity and black body radiation surfaces it probably does way better than just sitting on the counter. Also add in that the heat is being added below the meat so convection will help too.

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Source: this is from the link above.

I think the ridges is to allow the air to circulate.

We were home butchering and when I had mine the design was a little different.

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A cast iron pan on a trivet works. Not as well, but it’s not a unitasker for those with limited space.

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While searching for something else I found this article about the defrosting plates:

https://www.thekitchn.com/defrosting-tray-frozen-meat-review-23192111

Here is a test that a person can to to prove that the plates work:

For my first test, I placed an ice cube on the tray along with a control ice cube on my wooden cutting board. The cube on the aluminum tray began to melt so quickly I couldn’t even get a picture before it started puddling! All told, the ice cube was completely liquid within three minutes, while the other one was solid and left only a tiny amount of water on the cutting board.

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