Freezer door left open overnight

Bassmansam · 2 Jun 2017 at 08:46

Hi

As a recent first time buyer i have no idea about things like this. Door was loleft
Open from about 9-7am. Had turkey drummers, frozen chips, garlic bread, peas, ice cubes,ice cream. Is any of it not safe to eat?

FrenchTart · 2 Jun 2017 at 08:52

Meat and veg I'd not re-freeze personally, though you could probably get away with it in terms of not becoming ill from eating it.

Turkey drummers...just..grim. Chuck those even if they're fine

Bassmansam · 2 Jun 2017 at 09:10

FrenchTart said:
Turkey drummers...just..grim. Chuck those even if they're fine

Haha they are my guilty pleasure!

Yaayuh! · 2 Jun 2017 at 09:15

Get cooking

Bassmansam · 2 Jun 2017 at 09:20

Would do but i just closed the freezer as i was leaving for work. Didn't have time to have a good look.

d_brennen · 2 Jun 2017 at 09:21

I think you might die even though you haven't eaten any. Best leave work early and make funeral arrangements

Armageus · 2 Jun 2017 at 09:22

If it was just slightly open then I imagine it will be fine - could have done with checking how "unfrozen" the items were before closing the door again

MikeTheNative · 2 Jun 2017 at 09:33

Cook it all now and have it over the next few days. I left the door open before and 30 fish fingers were defrosted. So I ate fish fingers for the next 6 meals in a row.

Psycho Sonny · 2 Jun 2017 at 14:15

all of it will be fine. however some of it may have become damaged in the process of re-freezing. ice cram for instance doesn't taste the same after it melts then is frozen again.

all perfectly safe to eat. however it may taste a bit funny because of the above.

PiKe · 2 Jun 2017 at 14:18

MikeTheNative said:
Cook it all now and have it over the next few days. I left the door open before and 30 fish fingers were defrosted. So I ate fish fingers for the next 6 meals in a row.

Lightweight

TacticalFish · 2 Jun 2017 at 16:47

PiKe said:
Lightweight

I was going to say, that's 2 meals surely?!

I didn't even know turkey drummers were still a thing!

UnworthyBean · 2 Jun 2017 at 17:52

Bassmansam said:
ice cubes

Fine to eat? No. Fine to drink? Yes.

Will have lost all the iceyness and cubeyness though.

Bassmansam · 2 Jun 2017 at 19:02

I just ate the turkey drummers.. i'll update here if i start feeling ill.

Regy53 · 3 Jun 2017 at 06:31

Rip op

robfosters · 3 Jun 2017 at 10:26

I'm struggling to see why being a first time buyer causes you to not understand this. I just don't see the correlation.

Have you never lived anywhere with a freezer before?

Scam · 3 Jun 2017 at 11:53

robfosters said:
I'm struggling to see why being a first time buyer causes you to not understand this. I just don't see the correlation.

Have you never lived anywhere with a freezer before?

I was wondering that too

Seriously though, I wouldn't refreeze meat etc. Just cook it all. Then again it sounds like the OP has already refrozen stuff so I'd chuck it. Putting all the "alpha-ness" aside, food poisoning is pretty grim and not worth it to save £20 worth of food.

MooMoo444 · 4 Jun 2017 at 09:23

No update from OP, I guess he died

Goodnight sweet prince

Liquiduk · 4 Jun 2017 at 09:26

Rip op

jpaul · 4 Jun 2017 at 12:07

Need one of these ,been sat in my amazon basket since the auto defrost timer failed on my previous zanussi freezer -
a previous home thread did suggest new freezers now have an alarm, or better, IOT?, so that you would get a msg at work.
(that would be a more interesting phone app than tweet from Trump/May/Corbyn ?)

Bassmansam · 9 Jun 2017 at 16:17

robfosters said:
I'm struggling to see why being a first time buyer causes you to not understand this. I just don't see the correlation.

Have you never lived anywhere with a freezer before?

Yeah at home with my parents, why would I know about freezers?