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Maybe, but you better be good friends prior to needing a favor.A local butcher there may rent you a bit of freezer space…
with either...NAW I'm not gonna go thereYou'd be surprised how quickly I can jerk meat
Class act Heretic, I tip my hat! you put one in the good column for me today. Thanks!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.
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.Class act Heretic, I tip my hat! you put one in the good column for me today. Thanks!
Hahahawith either...NAW I'm not gonna go there
that day in Costco when the corndogs were on sale!Unfortunately I will be having corn dogs for lunch and dinner and snacks for weeks
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.that day in Costco when the corndogs were on sale!
thankz for the tip,You can make your own dry ice with a bottle of CO2.
Dude, that really sucks. Have you looked at other preservation techniques — pickling, salting (probably others I've never heard of)?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.
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.Dude, that really sucks. Have you looked at other preservation techniques — pickling, salting (probably others I've never heard of)?
I have a genset.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?
What I gave away was still frozen or mostly frozenOur 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.