Our power was out for 15 hours! Should I assume all our food in the frig is spoiled?? I never opened the doors when the power went out.
I had a lot of yogurt & milk (which smells funny now). Arggghh!
I feel your pain! Ours was out for 9 hours. Nothing smelled bad, but I tossed the dairy products, just to be safe.
I feel for ya and am still feeling it as ours is STILL out with no idea of when it will be restored. TXU is supposedly in emergency storm mode trying to fix outages all over the state. But we've been without for more than 24 hrs now...hmm....luckily my Dad just bought a 6000 watt Coleman gas powered generator Wednesday morning, so he and my husband cranked it up at 2am this morning and plugged our fridge and additional freezer into it or we'd have lost EvERYTHING! Gotta know God was looking out for us on this one!
better safe than sorry. one time I found a list online that told you exactly what to throw away based on how many hours the electricity was out. I know it is frustrating, I had just bought new milk less than an hour before the storm...however, I am also thankful it is just milk I am throwing away, I have neigbors that had trees fall through their roofs.
Ours was out for 12 hours. I read online that your freezer will keep for 24 hrs if 1/2 full or 48 hrs if full (and you didn't open it.) Of course you'd want to cook any thawed meats, etc. Your fridge is only good for 4 hrs if unopened. Hope this helps.
I would look and smell of the food and look at the labels to make sure it could survive without refrigeraton. Or get a big ice chest with lots of ice and immediately put the food in it. We lived in Oklahoma and we had no power for a month we survived for ice chest food.
