Bought a 3.5 lb cryovac boneless waygu ribeye (packed on 11/21, with a best before of 12/24). Plan changed and now won’t use it until 12/18 or 12/19. Would you keep it in the fridge still vacpac’d for the next month or freeze it for now?
I don’t think it’ll benefit from wet aging so I vote freeze.
I’d just keep it in the fridge, but agree with Betty’s comment. My opinion (influenced by Flannery) is that wet aging isn’t much of a thing. You could also pull it out and dry age it in the fridge. If I was doing that, I’d rinse it, then put a light salting on it a place it on a rack. But, whatever you choose, I don’t think there’s a wrong answer here.
If you have a freezer that is not frost-free I would freeze. I freeze anything I won’t be using in the next seven days in our chest freezer.
But, if you’re freezer is frost free you run danger of freezer burn. Probably less risk over a four week period but still a risk.
A dry-aged Wagyu must shrivel into just an obscenely expensive hunk of tallow.