Well - BUBBLEGUM! When your frozen food storage fails?!?

[billdeserthills]

Costco.com has freezers

https://www.costco.com/CatalogSearch?dept=All&keyword=freezer

 

[Gunbuggy]

You'd be surprised how quickly I can jerk meat

 

[The Heretic]

Daughter just left with the rest of the meat (a turkey, 20# of chicken, ribs, etc.) and the frozen veggies/fruit. Taking them to a family that hit hard times and can use some free food. Almost all of that was still frozen.

 

[Knobgoblin]

A local butcher there may rent you a bit of freezer space…

Maybe, but you better be good friends prior to needing a favor.

I won't allow anything into my shop that I didn't buy from a wholesaler.
Liability, and it's a blatant health code violation.

 

[Knobgoblin]

You'd be surprised how quickly I can jerk meat

 

[Gunbuggy]

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[Horatius]

You'd be surprised how quickly I can jerk meat

with either...NAW I'm not gonna go there

 

[Horatius]

Daughter just left with the rest of the meat (a turkey, 20# of chicken, ribs, etc.) and the frozen veggies/fruit. Taking them to a family that hit hard times and can use some free food. Almost all of that was still frozen.

Class act Heretic, I tip my hat! you put one in the good column for me today. Thanks!

 

[The Heretic]

Class act Heretic, I tip my hat! you put one in the good column for me today. Thanks!

It was my daughter who did the work (picking it up and taking it to the family) and suggested the destination - someone she knew whose husband fell off a ladder at work, broke both arms and other injuries, etc. - no sweat on my part, indeed it helped me out to get that food out of the freezer and off to being used by someone.

 

[Gunbuggy]

with either...NAW I'm not gonna go there

Hahaha

 

[The Heretic]

Unfortunately I will be having corn dogs for lunch and dinner and snacks for weeks

 

[Horatius]

Unfortunately I will be having corn dogs for lunch and dinner and snacks for weeks

that day in Costco when the corndogs were on sale!

 

[The Heretic]

that day in Costco when the corndogs were on sale!

Yup - I buy stuff on sale and corndogs are something I like to have once a week or so. I bought a box of like 48 some weeks ago. I also have my fridge/freezer stuffed with cheesburgers now.

 

[2gunnztoo]

You can make your own dry ice with a bottle of CO2.

thankz for the tip,
O man, there is always something for the dyi or bug-out bag.
kind of like the golf bag or the laundry bag or the toolbox or the freezer that just bubblegum quit & one needs to resupply the replacements.
youtube, here I come! again.
hey! anyone got a spare tank? Would it need to be chained down or is that something else?
all i know about "gases" is bubblegum a lot of it is involved in politics!

 

[The Heretic]

Understand that it takes ~5# of liquid CO2 to make 1# of dry ice. The tank and the CO2 are not cheap either.

 

[sunuvaB]

What do you do?

25 cubic feet of frozen food.

It is one thing if the power fails, but the chest freezer itself?

What to do?

Backup freezer? Costs twice as much and just sits there unused - or, full up and not usable as a backup.

Can't order/buy a replacement in time to save the food.

Cook it? Then what? Eat 25 CF of meat? Jerky? Not very likely to be able to jerk that much meat that quickly.

I saved the salmon and shrimp, but about 60% of the food can't be saved.

Dude, that really sucks. Have you looked at other preservation techniques — pickling, salting (probably others I've never heard of)?

Happened to me 6 months ago. Something tripped a breaker in the garage. Total loss by the time the smell alerted us. Had I noticed sooner, I would use/get a backup generator ASAP to save anything still frozen. Is it too late to do that?

 

[The Heretic]

Dude, that really sucks. Have you looked at other preservation techniques — pickling, salting (probably others I've never heard of)?

Thinking about drying and freeze drying and not getting so much frozen food at one time - instead storing what I do get inside the styrofoam boxes with ice packs that meds come in. I also have two larger styrofoam boxes that my mom sent steaks/etc. in. That and get a temp alarm.

Happened to me 6 months ago. Something tripped a breaker in the garage. Total loss by the time the smell alerted us. Had I noticed sooner, I would use/get a backup generator ASAP to save anything still frozen. Is it too late to do that?

I have a genset.

The problem wasn't power, the problem was the freezer just quit working. I had power outages earlier this year and the freezer lasted 2-3 days with only ice cream having to be thrown out. Everything is thawed today but the temp is still below 40* inside.

 

[Siglvr]

Our big upright broke and we lost a bunch of stuff. Like the rest of a 1/2 Bison etc etc. We used it as an opportunity to get a small chest freezer and bought some freeze dryed Mt House. The dog was happy for a while. I like the idea of offering it to others, but I didn't trust it as it was mostly thawed and some of it was already smelling.

 

[The Heretic]

Our big upright broke and we lost a bunch of stuff. Like the rest of a 1/2 Bison etc etc. We used it as an opportunity to get a small chest freezer and bought some freeze dryed Mt House. The dog was happy for a while. I like the idea of offering it to others, but I didn't trust it as it was mostly thawed and some of it was already smelling.

What I gave away was still frozen or mostly frozen

 

[The Heretic]

Got the new freezer this AM. It is almost a foot longer than the old one. It is a bit nicer too, and I had them install casters so I could move it around easily. I am packing it with gel packs and styrofoam boxes to put food in, to make it last longer if the power should fail (I have a genset that can run the freezer, but if I have to evac due to fire, like last year, they shut off the power and I can't get back in to refuel the genset, also, I may go on vacation). I am also thinking of buying some insulation board to put around the outside (leaving room for the ventilation for the compressor).