Power Cut. Full Deep Freeze.

Walter Sobchak III

Long story short. Got notification from ESB networks to say there will be a power cut next week. 8 hour disruption. Deep freeze is full. Lot of nice stuff in there. Any suggestions on how to prevent waste would be appreciated.

LiamaDelta

Just don't open it from the day before until the day after, everything will be fine. Also they give an 8 hour window but frequently the outage is much shorter.

Sleeper12

Put it on its coldest setting a few hours before the power is due to go. Don't open it either

coylemj

If it's a chest freezer, opening it during the power cut won't be the end of the world (but best avoided if possible) because air acts like a fluid and since warm air rises, it follows that cold air sinks so the freezing air in the chest freezer will be pretty stable and won't rush out if you open the lid. Opening the lid to quickly extract an item won't really affect the internal temperature all that much.

An upright fridge/freezer illustrates this if you're wearing shorts. When you open the door, the cold air literally pours out and you can feel it rushing around your legs like a fluid. The opposite happens when you open the door of an oven, the hot air rushes out, rises and hits you in the face. The cold air in the cavity of a chest freezer remains intact and doesn't go anywhere when you open the lid.