Here is a very simple trick to detect if a power outage has had a impact on your freezer.
Does the cold chain mean anything to you?
As we know, frozen foods must only be used if they are thawed and never refrozen.
The freezer works with electricity and in the event of a power cut, it does not immediately occur to us that it is no longer cold and the food may start to defrost.
This is all the more true when you go on vacation for several days.
Difficult to know on returning if the cold chain has not been broken at some point. Fortunately, we have a tip for you.
Take a small plastic bottle that you fill halfway with water. Put it in the freezer so that the water freezes.
Once the water is just a large ice cube, turn the bottle upside down.
The ice cube remains blocked at the level of the narrowing before the neck.
If one day when you return from vacation, you notice that the ice cube has reached the cap of the bottle, it means that the water has melted at some point, that the cold chain has been broken and that your food is at risk of be expired. Handy as a trick!
Save money by monitoring your freezer for a power outage.
If this is the case and the cold chain has been broken, you are good to throw away the entire contents of your freezer. You should never take the risk of consuming spoiled food.
However, in the event of a brief power outage, this will not necessarily have an impact on your freezer, it will still take some time before defrosting begins.
Thanks to our trick, you can precisely control the cold chain of your freezer and thus avoid throwing away food unnecessarily or, conversely, consuming spoiled food forcing you to make some expenses in the pharmacy...
