I recently heard a report that if your power is off more than 24 hours you should throw you freezer stuff away.
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Some things were frozen solid, some more on the slushy side with ice crystals still present, nothing all the way thawed or above 32 deg F.
I don’t think any bacteria started growing in, say, the 6-12 hours it was in that state.
I’d rather go by observation and judgment than some authority’s blanket rule for people who lack one or the other.
If we were away when the power came back on, I wouldn’t know how warm things had gotten in there for how long and in that case, I would have had to throw things away. That’s why some people stand a popsicle upright in the freezer in their vacation home - if the the popsicle has melted and refrozen in the bottom of the wrapper then it’s gotten warm in there - cheap sensor.
That's a Great Tip!
I'm in MA - CT Border, nothing to report here from the storm, thank goodness, but last year during the October snowstorm we lost all our food (left it in the fridge/freezer to dump it right before trash pick-up)...when the power finally came back on everything looked fine and dandy in the Freezer - hated to throw out all that pretty frozen food....
Actually I was thinking the same thing when I heard that.
That's a Florida Hurricane trick too... Thanks for the reminder... You're in my prayers - glad you're OK....