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Hey guys, I had to work during the hurricane and when I came home this morning around 9:30 my power was off. I put a thermometer in my refrigerator and when the power came back on it was 52 degrees inside the fridge. The power was off for a total of 10 hours at a minimum. My freezer stayed plenty cold as I did the quarter sitting on ice trick and it didn't move. So do you think that the ribs I have in the fridge (precooked) are safe? I hate to throw away food for no reason. Thanks for any advice. | ||
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Yes, given the fact that you didn't open the door during the 10 hours without power you should be fine. ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon  |
Yeah, everything should be fine. The only thing I'd be leery of would be uncooked fish. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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Yep. Should be OK. | |||
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Thanks guys. I was hoping that I would be okay. I did put a bunch of bottles of water in before I left to increase the amount of stuff in there to limit the temperature rise and I guess it worked. | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
A tip I learned AFTER I had already lost power for a day from Harvey. Put a coffee mug full of water in freezer. Once frozen, put a quarter on top of ice. After an extended power outage, it'll tell tell 2 things definitively and one gray area: Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
Next time, just keep the door closed and don't open it (to keep the cold air in) and don't add anything to it unless it's colder than the refrigerator (you stick something warmer inside it and the heat nergy of whatever you stick in there will dissipate and warm up the insides of the refrigerator. Thank you for working during the hurricane. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Striker in waiting |
Commercial food safety standards set the danger zone at > 40F (temp of the food, not the environment) for a cumulative total of 4 hours. Whether you opened the door is irrelevant to the equation. That said, I probably wouldn't worry about it. -Rob I predict that there will be many suggestions and statements about the law made here, and some of them will be spectacularly wrong. - jhe888 A=A | |||
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Guys, I put the extra water in before I left while the power was on. I didn't add anything after I came home to find the power off. Thanks for all the responses. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
Smell stuff before eating. Also if you aren't sure, throw it out. It's not worth being sick for days over a few bucks worth of food. | |||
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Set out once to become the world's greatest procrastinator, but never got around to it |
This. (Can't say the smell test is useful or not but it's not worth $100's of food to risk get food poisoning. Based on the case I had, it's not worth $1000s of food.) ___________________________________________ The annual soothsayers and fortunetellers conference has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. | |||
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parati et volentes |
Make sure you reheat the ribs to an internal temperature of 165°F for at least 15 seconds before chowing down on them. | |||
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Drug Dealer |
I got this Wireless digital thermometer for my new fridge. It has worked great and keeps track of the maximum and minimum temperatures. Check it out. When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
I ain't skeered. I'm eating stuff that was in my fridge when the power was off for 24 hours. So far, I ain't kilt.  The wife thinks I'm nuts, but I'm the one around here who pays for the groceries. | |||
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Essayons |
A pertinent link to an article in today's (Sunday, 17 Sep 2017) edition of the Idaho State Journal, a small hometown newspaper published in Pocatello, Idaho: LINK
Thanks, Sap | |||
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| Not One of the Cool Kids  |
My wife is a state-certified food safety expert. For real.  She said even pre-cooked ribs can be dangerous if they are exposed to temperatures between 40-140 degrees for more than six hours. | |||
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