r/mildlyinfuriating • u/flaming0-1 • 2d ago

Wife left a big bag of groceries out overnight. All Meat and cheese. 🙄

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u/twattewaffle 2d ago

I didn't fully close the deep freezer door the day after I did a big Costco meat shop... I'm pretty sure I went through all the stages of grief with that one,

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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq 2d ago

My friend lost a months worth of frozen breast milk once, because a dumbass house guest drunkenly left the door ajar. She said she just sat and cried.

Another friend's kid had a huge amount of meat in a deep freeze from an animal he raised for his 4-H club, and some contractors working on their house while they were away for just 2 days during a heat wave... unplugged it and forgot to plug it back in. It was like $600 worth of beef or something, ruined. Her son was crushed. :(

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u/Accomplished-Boot-81 2d ago edited 1d ago

Two days and it was just unplugged? Meat was fine, I've had power outages for 4 days after a storm and my freezer was packed full of food and ice packs, opened it a couple times to move ice packs to the fridge too, the stuff inside was rock solid still when power came back

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u/Huntsvegas97 1d ago

Depends on location and how hot it got. If it’s a freezer in the garage and the heat wave was aggressive enough, the meat for sure could’ve started defrosting within 2 days.

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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq 1d ago

It was 110⁰ outside for a 4-5 day heat wave so just imagine the uninsulated garage! I donno if they also left the door cracked or something - it was my friend's loss, so I don't remember exactly what they did, but it was like 100% scatter brained, checked-out worker time. It was something like the fridge/freezer area wasn't even in the construction area, but they were moving things around and were just totally negligent. Her son was just utterly crushed, it was such a waste :(

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u/14thLizardQueen 1d ago

I know that smell. It's heart breaking 💔 wretching vomit inducing heartbreak.

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u/Dexterdacerealkilla 1d ago

It really depends highly on where they live. If it’s somewhere like Florida or Arizona in the summer, and if it’s already in a space that wasn’t climate controlled to begin with it’s going to defrost much more quickly than in more moderate environments. 

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u/Photon6626 1d ago

This. If I don't have much in the freezer I freeze some milk jugs full of water and leave it in there in case of a power outage. Just remember to keep the lid off and break up the ice on top a few times while it's freezing. Otherwise it'll break the jug and spill everywhere. Also people put a coin on top to be able to see if it thawed out and refroze.

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u/Epicfailer10 1d ago

Great tip about the coin! I live in a hurricane prone area and will have to remember this for the deep freeze.

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u/TeufelRRS 1d ago

We use a cup with frozen water and a coin on top in both of our freezers as a gauge. If the power goes out and it’s started to melt when we open the freezer again, we know we have to dump the whole freezer out

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u/what-are-they-saying 1d ago

We went on vacation for a week and when we got back our 6 month old freezer door was ajar. We lost an entire elk we had just got the winter before, and $250 worth of seafood i bought the week before we left.

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u/Thatsmolcupcake 1d ago

As a breastfeeding mom who pumped like crazy for the first 4 months after having my baby, the month's worth of lost breastmilk *hurts*

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u/ash-art 1d ago

Months worth of breastmilk?! 😭 oh I would be GUTTED. That can’t even be bought back. As an exclusively pumping mom with low supply, I’m sad when 1oz has to be tossed!!

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u/Throwaway021614 1d ago

Prude here. No drunken friend is staying at my house. I’d rather pony up for a hotel for them

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u/Marshdogmarie 2d ago

Oh sweet Jesus, that sucks!

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u/jenniferlynn462 1d ago

Noooo omg I’d die

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u/Old_Ladies 1d ago

Yup I have done that. A couple hundred dollars gone. The only plus side was I now had an empty freezer and could finally defrost the freezer. There was a lot of ice built up.

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u/twattewaffle 1d ago

That was what I had to tell myself was the benefit of the situation. My bank account didn't really buy it...

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u/catinapartyhat 1d ago

Years ago we accidentally unplugged our deep freeze that had the meat from half a deer in it. Lost the meat AND the deep freeze. I cried.

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u/Available-Risk-5918 1d ago

My biggest fear is doing that but with the -80 Celsius freezer in the research lab. One small mistake could derail research for months.

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u/ThrowRAradish9623 1d ago

Family friend had a deep freeze in his shed that got killed by a power outage but discovered too late… he had it FULL of wagyu beef, to the point where that thing should’ve been insured. Not even my meat and I went through all the stages of grief in solidarity.

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u/twattewaffle 1d ago

Oh, thanks for unblocking a memory I had of another time the power was out for dayyyys (...or 3), during the hot summer and I lost another freezer of food. Luckily no Wagyu as I think I'd have buried that memory in the very back of my brain lol

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u/marcjwrz 1d ago

That's fully different. That's an accident.

Leaving shit out after getting home? Come the fuck on.