At the time I’m writing this, there are 198,119 customers without power in Nova Scotia after Hurricane Dorian.
If you are one of those people, you are undoubtedly worried about the food in your fridge and freezer.
Unfortunately, the food in your fridge is most likely a loss. Refrigerated foods will generally stay safe for 4 to 6 hours. However, frozen foods (in a fully-stocked freezer) will stay frozen up to 2 days. If you have a half-filled freezer, it goes down to about 1 day. (keep the freezer door closed)
All that said, the question now becomes, what if I’m not sure? It still seems (kinda) frozen.
As a rule of thumb, most food that has ice crystals on it and that is at a temperatures less than 4 degrees celsius is safe to be refrozen or cooked.
The Nova Scotia Government has a helpful chart for you on their website which you can find here.
