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A hurricane is coming and my refrigerator went on strike
It is my old refrigerator/freezer that I moved into the garage when its ice maker quit. I use it mostly as a chest drawer freezer and a beer cooler. He seemed happy with the arrangement, but in the past three weeks, I noticed that I needed to recycle the settings to keep him cool and happy. When my beer is warm, I can tell something is wrong. I told him that I knew I had been ignoring him lately, but asked if he couldn’t hang on for a few more weeks. He didn’t say a thing and just seemed to smile as he sat silently, holding all my thawing meats in his belly.
So tonight I had to scrub a large cooler and fill it with the thawing meats. It is a lot of meat. I don’t know what I will do with it. Some can refreeze in the kitchen freezer. Maybe I will have a post-hurricane party and cook it all.
Third-world problems are the best problems to have.
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Friends ask friends to share their meat frozen storage. And then cook it with them after the emergency is resolved.
Too much meat to find a home in someone else’s freezer but it will be shared and eaten. Strange menu: Prime rib roasts, lamb chops, beef and pork tenderloins, hamburgers, hot dogs, corned beef brisket, and lots of chicken breasts and chicken wings. It will have to be a big party.
Stay safe.
Cook the stuff that goes green twice as long.
I suppose there’s no dry ice available. You need dry ice to keep things frozen, water ice isn’t cold enough.
It may come in handy if your neighborhood gets hit with a nuclear blast. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg wouldn’t lie. I am just trying to be helpful.
Putting a freezer on the street was almost as dangerous as tearing the mattress labels off.
Smoke it.
Uh, no. You don’t remember the fridges/freezers with latching doors, which could not be opened from the inside no matter how much you pushed?
This. When you get handed a lemon, make lemonade. In this case, have a backyard BBQ . . .
If I remember correctly, you just had to take the door off to be legal.
Did the fridge get taken to the landfill or is it going to become a boat in the storm surge?
Right, either door removed, or the whole thing chained shut or something.
A warm beer is a bitter pils to swallow.