A very good butcher nearby runs a special every few months on NY strips ($3.98-419/lb), provided you buy the entire strip, which gives about 12-15 steaks. I package them in freezer bags, about three per bag. My sons love them, and my oldest will now cook them on the grill.

This past Saturday, I took a bag out to defrost. I told my son to speed up the defrost time by putting them in the microwave under defrost mode. This was done.

He began cooking them around 6:00PM when I was getting ready to take my other son to his baseball game. I told him, "Make a steak for yourself and mom, if she wants it, and grill the third one for your brother, so he can have it after his game."

He told me that there was only one steak in the bag. I couldn't believe it so I went out in the dark on the deck where the grill was on. The three steaks were still partially frozen and stuck together. He was disappointed that he was only going to get to eat a third of that giant ball of steak.