Freezer been switched off / door left open - will food be ok?

boredjellybean

I'm not really sure? but if you are in any doubt perhaps you could thaw the meat & cook it then freeze down (ie spag bol, sausage casserole, chicken stew etc?)

Gigervamp

The meat should be ok, but I'd chuck the ice cream and use up the rolls today or tomorrow.

mutty_hc

ok cheers. I will restock the ice cream and rolls then.

joedenise

Agree with Gingervamp. Just dump the icecream and use up the rolls quickly.

Denise

Sunnyday

Chuck the ice cream and the rest will be fine, i`ve often twice frozen bread and it won`t harm it.

SD

horsechestnut

Throw out the ice cream and onion bhajis. as previous poster said, bread will be O.K. and the meat should also be fine, but do check the mince; if it has thawed even slightly, then cook it and refreeze the cooked dish.

Penelope_Penguin

mutty_hc wrote: »

I went through the freezer and checked the meat, the beef steak, sauasages and chicken were all hard and definitely frozen as they were surrounded by alot of frozen veg in a large draw. The only other thing that felt thawed was some onion bhajis in the lowest draw. Everything else was basically 70%+ frozen.

Anything that was still frozen solid will be fine You're not the first person that this has happened to, so as it's fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing thread to keep ideas together.

365days

Just got home from shopping. Discovered freezer has been accidently turned off ...... I know how.....son will be slowly tortured later. I could weep. Thinking back it would of been turned off on Tuesday eve. Some things are soft-(Mainly bottom of freezer) some things are still hard - whole chicken.

I have a £200 excess on my home insurance and would lose no claims so not an option and really not that huge a value food relatively.


So do you think anything can be salvaged????

I have a dog and two cats so they may well be dining in style for the next few days........really could cry.

zippychick

365 days... i have just the thread for you! Don't panic! Im sure most of it will be fine. Just keep what's frozen solid :j

Freezer been switched off/door left open - will food be ok?

I'll merge this later
Zip

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Hi 365days,

Any food that is still completely frozen can be left in the freezer. If you have any raw food in there that has begun to defrost but is still cold, it can be cooked and refrozen.

There is more advice on this thread:

Freezer been switched off / door left open - will food be ok?

I'll add your thread to it once you've had more replies to keep the suggestions together.

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