Keep Food

Keep your refrigerator and freezer doors closed.
- Your refrigerator will keep food cold for about 4 hours if it is unopened.
Food will stay frozen for about 2 days in a full freezer; 1 day in a freezer that is less than half full.
- It helps to cover freezers with blankets and quilts.
- Keep the door closed and use dry ice to keep food frozen.
Buy dry or block ice to keep your refrigerator as cold as possible if the power is going to be out for a prolonged period.
- 50 pounds of dry ice should keep an 18 cubic foot, fully-stocked freezer cold for 2 days.
- Wear gloves when handling dry ice, and place it on cardboard in the freezer rather than directly on food packages.
Food may be refrozen if it still contains some ice crystals. If in doubt, throw it out.
Use a thermometer in your refrigerator.
- Remember pork, poultry, fish, and ground meat spoil quickly at room temperature above 40 degrees.
- Other foods that spoil quickly include: custards, creamed foods, or any food containing mayonnaise.