How do you know if your freezer shut down while you were away?
That's important to know about the food in your freezer!
Because if your food thaws and refreezes, you risk becoming poisoned...
But no need to buy a power outage detector to find out if there has been a break in the cold chain!
There is an easy trick to know if your freezer has stopped and if you should throw away your food or not.
Just use the coin trick . Watch:
- 1 cup
- 1 coin
1. Fill the cup with water.
2. Put the filled cup in the freezer.
3. Once the water in the cup is frozen, put a coin on it.
4. When you return, check that the room is still in the same place.
5. If the coin is in the same place or in the middle of the cup, your food is still good.
6. But if the coin is at the bottom of the cup, that means the food has thawed and you should throw it away.
And now, thanks to this trick, you now know if your freezer stopped while you were away :-)
Easy, fast and efficient, right?
This trick is great because it lets you know exactly if you can keep your food.
No more throwing everything for nothing when the power cut was only a few minutes!
This is the best trick to know if a product has been thawed and refrozen.
No risk of food contamination on your return!
In addition, this trick helps to avoid food waste.
If you have a power outage at home, the freezer will stop working.
As a result, the ice in the cup will liquefy and the coin will fall to the bottom of the glass.
Once the power is restored, the water will freeze again, but the coin will be at the bottom of the cup...
...which tells you that the outage lasted too long to keep your food.
On the contrary, if the failure was of short duration, the coin will always be in the same place or it will be in the middle of the glass.
In this case, you don't have to throw everything away and you avoid a lot of food waste.
