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Fridge broke. What do I do in the mean time?
Improvolone
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The landlord is coming over later today to see what he can do, but in the mean time is there anything I can do?
I guess the thing started to go sometime yesterday, as the ice is now half melted in its trays. My milk was also a little on the not cool side this morning, that was gross.
Open the fridge as little as possible I guess. Is there a certain point where I should just toss all the food?
I guess the thing started to go sometime yesterday, as the ice is now half melted in its trays. My milk was also a little on the not cool side this morning, that was gross.
Open the fridge as little as possible I guess. Is there a certain point where I should just toss all the food?
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Go to Wal-mart or local equivalent and purchase a disposable styrofoam cooler; they'll probably either be with the ice or with the bait. You can pack that with ice and food and keep it in a cool place. You'll probably want to change the ice every 12 hours or so if you can.
Other than that, I guess you'll be eating out a lot.
2.) Get Ice Chest, fill with Ice, and begin to put stuff into that.
3.) Prepare to clean out the fridge, cause it will be nasty. - #2 will help reduce this.
I only suggest this if you KNOW you will be without a fridge for a few days.
This is what I do during hurricanes, or prepare to do when i expect to lose power.
If the landlord is going to take a few days, everything in your refridgerator will be crap unless you pack the whole thing with ice, which will be really inconvenient, which is why i say get a large cooler too. Unless they throw the fridge away, which is less likely, since you are renting. Prepare to clean that bitch down in the easiest way possible.
Not only will it keep your frozen foods hella-cold, but it doesn't leave a puddle behind. It sublimates into co2.
We just tossed everything in a cooler with the dry is and closed the lid.
Publix sells bags of dry ice. if your going to go this route (which sounds like a great idea) make sure NOT to latch the cooler closed. It needs to burp every now and then from the expanding gas.
Cold snap....grumble grumble. Send it here to Connecticut. It'll probably not get above about 20 degrees tomorrow. I could just put all your food outside and it would remain perfectly fine.
Under 60....grumble grumble.
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If not, go buy some coolers before your food gets nasty.
I don't know what caused any of this, but the landlord is sending out a repairman tomorrow to look at it. We've got stuff back in the fridge, but the frozen stuff all had to be tossed. It was well passed still frozen when we finally realized what had happened.
I'll let you guys know what happens tomorrow (for those of you interested in fridge repair)
Edit: What is UHT milk?
Or switch from milk to soy 'milk'. But then again I'm just an activist and I have to mention these things from time to time.
UHT is Ultra-High-Temperature milk. Doesn't need to be refrigerated at all until you open it, so you can stock up and just do 1L cartons at a time.
Does it last longer if you refrigerate it? How long after opening does it last? I would switch exclusively to UHT milk if it meant I didn't have to buy a new small carton every 6 weeks because the old one expired, since I never really use it fully.