Is Your Outside, Shop, Or Garage Freezer Working?

[Fishawn]

Somehow, our garage freezer plug got tweeked just enough that it was not working..... There was a basketball right next to it, on top of the lid when I went oot to put some vac packed PP in it...... Never thought twice aboot it.... Opened the lid to freeze said PP.......... Yes, I immediately knew what was going on, and it was not good.... 5# boneless chicken thighs, 3-4 pizza crusts, 10# Sea Bass filets, a few bags of Kolbasz, etc.... Gone....... Could have been worse..... Figured a couple days withoot freezing temps, butt what a pain in the ass! The smell was bad, butt have smelled a LOT worse from coolers, freezers, etc.

Just a "heads up" if ya got a lotta good stuff in your freezer, might be worth investing in a temp alarm......

And, it might save you from 9:30pm pulling out the freezer, putting rotting meat into trash, hosing oot freezer, disinfection of said freezer, etc....

[Richtee]

I bought 2 a couple years ago. $12 for both plus some shipping as I recall.

Yup. Do it.

[THE ICEMAN]

Bummer. The local zoo prolly woulda taken that stuff... Although prolly not at 9:30.

[erain]

Sorry to hear aboot the loss of future smokin material. Great heads up, I know i really should get two of them for me basement freezers... Thanks for making your loss into a possible preventative measure for someone else down the line.

[DanMcG]

I never thought about it, but I'll be ordering one asap. Sorry for your loss, and thanks for the tip.

[curious aardvark]

that sucks.

Our freezer needs cleaning out, got enough snow in there to make a small snowman :-)
But definitely still plugged in.

[Snarlingiron]

Bummer. That is a disgusting mess. I know I have posted about it on here, but I had one fail, replaced it and the replacement lasted 1 year and 1 month. The replacement for the replacement has a digital display on front of the door and a built in temp alarm. About 3 times a day as I pass it I glance at it and check for the 0 on the display. I'm down right paranoid about it now. Now that I think about it, the built in temp alarm wouldn't have done a thing under your set of circumstances. Hmmmmmmmm.

[barkonbutts]

Heck I got 4 of them in my house..... only had to toss them once when we lost power for 10 days... but we had one heck of a BBQ on day 7.....

[smc51]

I'm sorry to hear of your loss, Scott.
Out here in the country, we've lost power a number of times and had to throw away the contents of the freezer and two refridgerators. Its not only nasty to deal with, but expensive.

[minnbill]

Wow that sucks.
This happened to someone last year and I bought a couple alarms then.Guess I should open them up and putem to use

[chisoxjim]

Somehow, our garage freezer plug got tweeked just enough that it was not working..... There was a basketball right next to it, on top of the lid when I went oot to put some vac packed PP in it...... Never thought twice aboot it.... Opened the lid to freeze said PP.......... Yes, I immediately knew what was going on, and it was not good.... 5# boneless chicken thighs, 3-4 pizza crusts, 10# Sea Bass filets, a few bags of Kolbasz, etc.... Gone....... Could have been worse..... Figured a couple days withoot freezing temps, butt what a pain in the ass! The smell was bad, butt have smelled a LOT worse from coolers, freezers, etc.

Just a "heads up" if ya got a lotta good stuff in your freezer, might be worth investing in a temp alarm......

And, it might save you from 9:30pm pulling out the freezer, putting rotting meat into trash, hosing oot freezer, disinfection of said freezer, etc....

thats sucks,

I had a box freezer semi loaded with pork, chicken and crabs... in my garage go out, unnoticed for about a week in July - Started to smell something, only cracked the lid an inch...

had to load the freezer onto the back of the truck and dumped it a few blocks away... coyotes probably liked it..

The replacement box freezer went in the basement where it doesnt have to work as hard and can be monitored.

[SMOKE FREAK]

Thermoworks sells a very good alarm...Where I got mine...

[tadowdaddy]

Sorry Scott!!!!! Sucks!!

[chefrob]

man that just sucks "thaw-daddy", my 2 little units have little lights on them at the bottom and the strips that they are plugged into do too.........

[sweet_magnolia]

That sucks, Fish...especially 9:30 at night!