So I'm emptying out my fridge...

[Joe Cooker]

In article
,
phaeton wrote:


If your milk smelled bad after that little time, it probably wasn't
at peak quality to begin with, honestly.

Regards,
Ranee @ Arabian Knits

"She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands." Prov 31:13

http://arabianknits.blogspot.com/

[MAMAz]

"Ranee at Arabian Knits" wrote


Grin, you are going to freak but I tend to a large staples trip every 3
months, a smaller veggies/fruits run weekly with a few side items.

Most meats are the quarterly runs except for fresh seafoods. I'm near a
quarterly run now though I've plenty of stocked items of some types. I'm
working the chest freezer down first so it can get a good defrost.

[-:]-]

Last week the power went out sometime after I left for school, and
came back on before I got home from work. I don't know how long
before I got home that it came on, but everything in the fridge was
just barely colder than room temperature, and everything in the
freezer was at least half thawed. I asked the locals, some say it was
out for six hours, some say it was out for nine.

There are a few condiments (ketchup, bbq sauce, a couple of basic
mustards) that I'm leaving in, as well as beer and soda. But
everything else is going.

It's a bit disheartening. I never realized how much stuff gets
stockpiled into a properly appointed refrigerator. Even just base
condiments is pretty good list of things. No milk or butter in the
house pretty much cripples any breakfast effort. Even shelf-stable
things in the pantry all need something from the refrigerator to work
the way you want. I'm not going to replace everything all at once,
because when I was pulling things out I was adding up approximate
costs in my head. At $150 I stopped counting. I've bought some lunch
meat and cheese and things for now just so I have something edible in
the house, but there are so many times where I'll go "Oh, I could have
tunafish... oh, no mayo." "Ah, I could pull some sausages from the
freezer... uh.. nope"... "Well, at least I can make a box of mac n
chee- no milk or butter"

Oh well... I mean to clean out the fridge sometime soon anyways, but
not to this scale, and certainly NOT including the $70 worth of
delicious items I purchased the day before.

[Asian Angel]

In article ,
"Nunya Bidnits" wrote:


We're fortunate that way, too. When we do have power outages, it's
almost always in the winter. Outside becomes the new fridge (or
freezer, where we live now - temps to the negative teens at night in the
depths of winter).

Regards,
Ranee @ Arabian Knits

"She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands." Prov 31:13

http://arabianknits.blogspot.com/

[Suck my rooster]

In article
,
Kalmia wrote:


At least in our area, the risk of this happening in summer is quite
low, and the items in the freezer work to help keep themselves frozen
for a while. If that is your only reason for not getting a big freezer,
I'd reconsider, if there are other reasons, of course, you need to think
of those.

Regards,
Ranee @ Arabian Knits

"She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands." Prov 31:13

http://arabianknits.blogspot.com/

[marie-louise]

In article ,
"Nunya Bidnits" wrote:



This cite seems to indicate that steelhead trout and rainbow trout are
the same fish:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_trout

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
[email protected]

[Sonny Boy]

On 2/28/2011 11:48 AM, Kalmia wrote:

That's why you get a portable generator.

[urscreamin]

"phaeton" wrote in message
news:faf96228-4ec8-4a57-8eb7-75b4fdea9b31@v16g2000vbq.googlegroups.com...

Last week the power went out sometime after I left for school, and
came back on before I got home from work. I don't know how long
before I got home that it came on, but everything in the fridge was
just barely colder than room temperature, and everything in the
freezer was at least half thawed. I asked the locals, some say it was
out for six hours, some say it was out for nine.

There are a few condiments (ketchup, bbq sauce, a couple of basic
mustards) that I'm leaving in, as well as beer and soda. But
everything else is going.

It's a bit disheartening. I never realized how much stuff gets
stockpiled into a properly appointed refrigerator. Even just base
condiments is pretty good list of things. No milk or butter in the
house pretty much cripples any breakfast effort. Even shelf-stable
things in the pantry all need something from the refrigerator to work
the way you want. I'm not going to replace everything all at once,
because when I was pulling things out I was adding up approximate
costs in my head. At $150 I stopped counting. I've bought some lunch
meat and cheese and things for now just so I have something edible in
the house, but there are so many times where I'll go "Oh, I could have
tunafish... oh, no mayo." "Ah, I could pull some sausages from the
freezer... uh.. nope"... "Well, at least I can make a box of mac n
chee- no milk or butter"

Oh well... I mean to clean out the fridge sometime soon anyways, but
not to this scale, and certainly NOT including the $70 worth of
delicious items I purchased the day before.


If the fridge and Freezer was only off for 6 hours, and your door seals were
good, the things would be still OK.....What a waste of food.....Unless you
live in the tropics then some of the things in the fridge may not be really
good, but could still be eaten immediately, but the stuff in your freezer,
even though half defrosted would still be OK to re-freeze, as they did not
completely thaw out..... I would have your seals on the fridge and freezer
checked out....

BB

[Be Positive]

On 3/1/2011 12:04 AM, Nunya Bidnits wrote:

You're lucky. Where I live, we *sometimes* get remnants of tropical
storms but sometimes we do get slammed. Not often. But our electrical
infrastructure is in bad shape. The last two years have been hard on
where I work. The power lines are all strung and not underground and no
one has kept up on tree trimming. We had a joke about when there was
even the slightest bit of wind, because it always took out our power.
We had to add hundreds of thousands of dollars to our infrastructure
because the local power wasn't reliable even in the slightest of weather
situations.

[dangercat]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:50:23 -0800 (PST), phaeton
wrote:


Ouch. Sorry that happened to you!

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.