SC - Dying Appliances WAS: *GRUMBLE*
RichSCA at aol.com
RichSCA at aol.com
Sun Mar 26 16:12:42 PST 2000
I know that dying appliances is a great concern for my lord and as we travel.
If we come home to a dead refrigerator it would be a case of throwing
everything away. But my worry was always the power going out for a few
days/weeks/months and then coming on again and re-freezing everything. To
know if this has happened this is what I do:
I place a clean, empty plastic butter container in the freezer compartment of
my refrigerator and my upright freezer. In the butter containers I place
three square ice cubes. If the power goes out the ice will begin to melt. If
the power comes back on the ice will re-freeze in the shape of the butter
container. If I return and the ice is completely melted or, a solid block in
the butter container, I know that the power was out long enough to place my
food safety in danger.
Just an idea to pass along...
Rayne
In a message dated 3/26/00 1:21:22 PM Central Standard Time,
Marian.Deborah.Rosenberg at washcoll.edu writes:
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Greetings,
Thank God my downstairs neighbor does not believing in cooking! As it was,
she has a smaller refrigerator than my current one and I barely managed to
fit
the food in need of the fridge into her fridge. So I only lost about $15
worth
of food, which, since my new landlord is a fairly nice sort of gent I'll
probably get paid back for.
Where is it written that refrigerators will only die on Friday evenings?
I get a new one Monday afternoon.
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