I only opened the fridge once, so I think it stayed pretty cold. We had no heat in the house on and the temp outside was around 42 or lower. The food is all cold now that the powers back on but is milk, meat etc safe to eat?
2006-11-16 07:27:56 · 25 answers · asked by eve m 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
I would pour the milk out; that is cheap to replace.
Before cooking any meat (which if you DO use, you should use it ASAP) make sure it smells OK first before using it.
2006-11-16 07:30:30 · answer #1 · answered by Joe Somebody 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should be safe to eat. I have had that happen before and the food was fine. if you are still unsure then throw out the eggs and milk. The meat you will be able to tell when you start to cook it. If it has an " off " smell then throw it out. But it will not hurt to try cooking it first.
Food will generally stay good in the fridge for up to 24 hrs so if you were only out for 12 hours then you should be ok. Use common sense and be safe by throwing out what youa re scared to eat.
2006-11-16 07:33:15 · answer #2 · answered by bootsjeansnpearls 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What was the internal temp of your fridge just before the power went back on? If it stayed around 40 degrees, you should be ok, generally, but you may have to push up the time-table for cooking some of the more perishable foods. I would be concerned primarily with the meats. Everything else would be fairly obvious.
2006-11-16 07:33:16 · answer #3 · answered by Finnegan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you didn't open the fridge more than a couple times, probably. If it smells safe, it's okay. The danger would be that you might have lost a day or more off the expiration date. It helps if you have a thermometer in the fridge to know how high the temp went.
2006-11-16 07:30:50 · answer #4 · answered by Singinganddancing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12 hours is a long time, bacteria in food start multiplying when the food reaches 4degrees Celsius (or 40 degrees Fahrenheit), they double in number every 15-30 min after the first hour ( it takes one hour for them to start multiplying) this means one bacterium could multiply into a million in about six hours! That is enough to make anyone quite sick. I would suggest you through out all dairy, uncured meats, but especially mayo based products that are opened. Better safe then sorry! Especially if you have small children, elderly, or pregnant people in the house. Their immune system are lower so are severely more susceptible to food borne illness.
2006-11-16 08:04:14 · answer #5 · answered by greengirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should be safe to eat. your fridge should have kept the food insulated and kept any heat out. If you really think about it your fridge only runs a couple times a day anyways so i doubt any of the food is bad.
2006-11-16 07:31:31 · answer #6 · answered by xkie07x 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't chance it. A few years ago, we have power go out for days due to a hurricane. The power was on at my dad's office so we moved everything from our freezer into a freezer in his office by the end of the day.
I still got food poisoning from eating some of that stuff, and it was in the freezer. The stuff in the fridge can go bad faster.
Throw it out and buy new stuff. No one needs to get food poisoning.
2006-11-16 07:31:33 · answer #7 · answered by teel2624 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My motto is "When in doubt, through it out." If something seems a little off to you don't eat it. Throwing away a fridge full of food is cheaper than doctors visits and meds and missed work.
2006-11-16 07:41:27 · answer #8 · answered by babydoll 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! Throw that away! It became out of refrigeration for way too long. Freezing it and cooking it later can no longer kill off each and every of the pathogens that are actually growing to be on the beef
2016-10-15 15:33:08 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on how warm your fridge stayed. If it rose above 45, I would trash meats, cheeses, milk...vegetables, juices would be fine.
2006-11-16 07:31:35 · answer #10 · answered by hmstarr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋