{"id":36458,"date":"2018-08-05T08:27:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T13:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36458"},"modified":"2018-08-05T08:27:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T13:27:30","slug":"how-to-still-be-chill-without-a-refrigerator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36458","title":{"rendered":"How to Still Be Chill Without a Refrigerator"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/how-to-be-chill-without-a-refrigerator\/\">How to Still Be Chill Without a Refrigerator<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Looking for a fun way to spend this hot summer week? I\u2019m just going to go out on a limb here and say that spending it without a working refrigerator is NOT it.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago I was out for the day. \u00a0I got home and opened the fridge and grabbed a drink. I though, \u201cHmm\u2026.that isn\u2019t very cold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And indeed it was not, because my refrigerator had stopped working properly sometime earlier that day. Because of the 4th of July weekend, I wasn\u2019t able to get anyone to come and repair it until Monday. Then, after it was diagnosed, a part had to be ordered which will not arrive until tomorrow. So there you have it\u2026a solid week in 90+ weather with no fridge.<\/p>\n<p>In a power outage situation, this is not an unlikely scenario at all. \u00a0So \u00a0in the spirit of making this a \u201cchance-to-practice-preps\u201d experience instead of a \u201cdad-gum-it- I-had-to-throw-out-a-bunch-of-groceries\u201d experience, here\u2019s what I learned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Food safety rules<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was absolutely loathe to throw away groceries, but after having a recent bout of food poisoning after a dinner out, I wasn\u2019t will to take any chances. \u00a0The dog thoroughly enjoyed her bowl of roast beef with potatoes and carrots though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodsafety.gov\/keep\/charts\/refridg_food.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FoodSafety.gov <\/a>offers these guidelines:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is food in the refrigerator safe during a power outage? It should be safe as long as power is out\u00a0<strong>no more than 4 hours<\/strong>. Keep the door closed as much as possible. Discard any perishable food (such as meat, poultry, fish, eggs, and leftovers) that have been above 40 \u00b0F for over 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Never taste food to determine its safety!<\/strong>\u00a0You can\u2019t rely on appearance or odor to determine whether food is safe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0Always discard any items in the refrigerator that have come into contact with raw meat juices.<\/p>\n<p>You will have to evaluate each item separately. Use this chart as a guide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Still Be Chill Without a Refrigerator Looking for a fun way to spend this hot summer week? I\u2019m just going to go out on a limb here and say that spending it without a working refrigerator is NOT it. A few years ago I was out for the day. \u00a0I got home and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6156,21124,21123,5756],"class_list":["post-36458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-daisy-luther","tag-food-safety","tag-refrigeration","tag-the-organic-prepper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36459,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36458\/revisions\/36459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}