Goomba wrote:
> merryb wrote:
>> On Jun 6, 1:15 pm, Goomba > wrote:
>
>>>> Wow- I'm surprised you ate it without knowing how long it was thawed
>>>> out...that could have been a nasty lesson. You were lucky!!
>>> Assuming it ever thawed in the first place?
>>> Power can go out for 30 seconds and when it returns (and all the
>>> appliances that will automatically start again do so) yet the clocks
>>> will blink until reset.
>>>
>>> I know with frozen vegetables, one way to tell if they've been thawed
>>> (and since re-frozen) is if they're solid in the bag/box instead of
>>> pieces.- Hide quoted text -
>>>
>>
>> Right, but how can you tell how long it was off? Could have been 5
>> minutes, or 5 days...why take the chance?
>
> Are you saying that ANY time your power blinks off you toss your entire
> freezer contents?
> There is usually discernible alteration in appearance to food that was
> previously frozen then unintentionally thawed and refrozen.

Ooops... following on my own post-
I have a freezer thermometer that goes downwards in temp with no
problems, and yet if the temp rises upwards (unintentional thaw) the
little temp pointer hand can not go downwards again as the temp again
drops. It must be manually "reset", so to speak. This makes it a handy
device for determining if the freezer has suffered a temporary failure.