Comments on: Frozen & preserved food & power outages https://dev.eatinscanada.com/frozen-and-preserved-food-and-power-outages/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=frozen-and-preserved-food-and-power-outages Recipes, reviews, interviews and events. A blog about food. Mon, 15 Jan 2024 02:20:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Gayle Hurmuses https://dev.eatinscanada.com/frozen-and-preserved-food-and-power-outages/#comment-141780 Mon, 07 Nov 2022 21:17:59 +0000 https://dev.eatinscanada.com/?p=9633#comment-141780 In reply to Helen Nelson.

That was a HOT weekend too! Well done.

My home and the 5 houses south of us were without power for 44 hours, 20 hours after all other houses on both sides of the road were reconnected.

When the power went out I knew it was huge because my tinitus had completely disappeared. I went across the street, bought 4 bags of ice from the store. Then put the ice into the crisper drawers. We minimized opening the fridge and still had ice in the drawers when the power came back on. Did not consider blankets though.

]]> By: Helen Nelson https://dev.eatinscanada.com/frozen-and-preserved-food-and-power-outages/#comment-141723 Sun, 06 Nov 2022 23:05:43 +0000 https://dev.eatinscanada.com/?p=9633#comment-141723 In the long August blackout from 15 (or so??) years ago, we were without power for more than 48 hours. As soon as it was clear that there would be no quick resolution to the problem, we wrapped our freezer in blankets and didn’t open it again until the power came back on. Even the ice cream remained mostly frozen. And while I’m sure there had been some small amount of thaw in other stuff, we felt confident enough to continue to eat it! As to the food in the refrigerator freeer, we just had a giant neigbourhood cook out going non-stop and everyone’s food was eaten. Very little was lost.

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