Freezer door left open overnight

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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?
 
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 ;)
 
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 :)
 
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.
 
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.
 
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'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 :p

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.
 
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 ?)
 
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