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20 hour power out – frozen food dilema..
paddy0091
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stw massive, naturally hold the answer to most things..

Yesterday a major issue occurred with the electricity supply on our street, in fact if you noticed carnage down at Priory island in Nottingham that’s the same issue (half the lights failed)

anyway, I’d loaded up the freezer the other day and I’m concerned about all my food, well the meat stuff. House-mate inadvertently opened the freezer for all of a second while it was off, but anyway it’s been back on now for several hours (generator out on the avenue) and the stuff is frozen solid. Reckon it’ll be OK to eat? cheers

Posted 11 years ago

loum
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It might be a little hard at the moment.
Probably best to defrost and cook it first.

Posted 11 years ago

paddy0091
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That’s what I’d been thinking actually, just a fair bit to cook.

Posted 11 years ago

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trail_rat
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Itll be fine.

Posted 11 years ago

cbike
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It’ll be fine.

Are there any singletracker’s left that have been outside without holding their mum’s hand these days?

Posted 11 years ago

soobalias
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you needed to have a quick look just as the power went back on, see if there were any signs of thawing.

on a scale of 1 to picolax, my guess is its a three at worst.

Posted 11 years ago

paddy0091
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haha oi, I just want reassurance! googling seemed to suggest binning the lot! which I clearly don’t want to do! cheers for the replies

oh and it came back on at 3am, but I wasn’t around to check it.

Posted 11 years ago

trail_rat
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Go take a piece of chicken out and put it on a plate in your kitchen – observe how long to defrost.

Now even with the door open for a minute the thermal mass of the food in your freezer will haul that temperature back down very quickly and said chicken will take much much much longer to defrost.

Id eat it.

Posted 11 years ago

one_happy_hippy
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Serious our freezers were off for nearly 24hrs the other day when the generator died, the only thing that thawed slightly was the bread. And it was Circa 40c outside. So I think you’ll be ok…

Posted 11 years ago

one_happy_hippy
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Seriously our freezers were off for nearly 24hrs the other day when the generator died, the only thing that thawed slightly was the bread. And it was Circa 40c outside. So I think you’ll be ok…

Posted 11 years ago

loum
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The sort of thing I’d chuck would be pre-cooked prawns. Things that you just defrost and eat, but with a bit of risk to them.
I wouldn’t worry about the rest.

Posted 11 years ago

drlex
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Unless you omitted the sentence “My House-mate took everything out and left it spead on the floor for a few hours whilst he defrosted the freezer with a toothpick”, you should be golden.

Posted 11 years ago

spooky_b329
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We had a two day powercut a while back. I left all the lights turned on so when it came back on at 3am one morning, it woke me up so I was able to check the state of the freezer. It was all defrosted 🙁

Posted 11 years ago

Markie
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Mrs Markie works in the food world. Her take, assuming a freezer off for 20 hours and only opened once – and that for a second – try to use it all within four weeks and cook it well. Hope this helps!

Posted 11 years ago

paddy0091
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thanks to all ^ 😀

@drlex, this did make me laugh!

Posted 11 years ago

gsp1984
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Home insurance will cover it. More for if you have a chest freezer with £500+ of meat etc but will defo cover it.

Posted 11 years ago