To those who were affected by the blackout...

[Zim Hosein]

I'm just curious, how much food did you end up throwing away? I've never seen my refrigerator so empty in my life

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
I'm just curious, how much food did you end up throwing away? I've never seen my refrigerator so empty in my life

I hope the :beer: survived, hehe

 

[Zim Hosein]

I hope the :beer: survived, hehe

It was the one of the few items that I could save

 

[Kaervak]

Our freezer is just about empty. Pretty much a small fraction of what was in there. Most of it was old and needed to go anyway, so no real big deal. The fridge is about half empty. Lots of old stuff gets the boot. Some cheeses had to go, but nothing major. And the beer and champagne is ok.

 

[loup garou]

Not much. A jar of mayo, some leftovers, a little milk, some deli cheese.
Freezer held up fine, thank god for that frozen turkey!

 

[Reel]

My mom went to the grocery store today and she tells me that they had signs everywhere saying they had to throw away all the perishables. She said it was fairly empty from that. I assume they lost a lot of food in their house too because their refrigerator died when the power came back on.

 

Not too much. We didn't open the freezer, so most of the stuff was just a little melted by the time the power came back on (almost exactly 24 hours later). Even the ice was just melted together and refrozen, not water at all.

The ice cream might have to go (haven't tasted/looked yet), and I spilled out about 1/3 gallon of milk (it smelled sorta sweet), but other than that, everything seems to be fine. I packed my meats, cheeses and yogurt in a cooler filled with ice on Thursday night, and it stayed cool the whole time.

 

[Riprorin]

None, we only lost power for about 10 hrs.

 

[her209]

I would have started up the BBQ...

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

I was in New Jersey at the time, and I had to run some production samples over at a plant in Wellington. My Hotel had power, plant didn't.

All in all due to bacteria count I had to throw away..... (Actually, I didn't pitch it. Most of it gets processed into dog food and worthless crap like that. About 1,500 gal did get literally pitched though, cause it was super mondo holy stinky, and I wasn't screwin with it.)

3,000 gallons of raw unpasturized milk
1,500 gallons of Homo
1,500 gallons of 2%
1,500 gallons of Dutch Chocolate Milk
500 crates of Ice Cream
Eight truckloads (Semi truckloads) of assorted Fruit Yogurt blends
Numerous amounts of cheese and other dairy products

 

[Reel]

Originally posted by: Monel Funkawitz

1,500 gallons of Homo

Thats a lot of homo!

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: ReelC00L

Originally posted by: Monel Funkawitz
1,500 gallons of Homo

Thats a lot of homo!

That's a lot of wasted milk.

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

That's a lot of wasted milk.

Yup. Multiply that by every dairy plant affected by the power failure. I purged more milk out of the filling line than you will drink in your entire lifetime, and it went down the drain. I may be wierd, but it makes me sick to watch all that milk go to waste.

I actually gave away quite a few cases of chocolate milk, homogenized gallons, GoYourts, and ice cream to everyone in the neighborhood and anyone that drove by. Had to eat it as soon as you got it though, cuz no power. Soon as word got around, people were lined up as far as you could see.

 

[DaWhim]

didn't waste any food
we kept the fridge close all the time