World Economy Shudders as Coronavirus Threatens Global Supply Chains

Re:World Economy Shudders as Coronavirus Threatens Global Su... by bryanlarsen on Monday February 24, 2020 @08:03AM (#22403650)

4 days after a tornado, the food in our chest freezer was still half frozen. We cooked up a good fraction of it and tossed the rest. But only because refreezing it would have caused freezer burn. In an emergency, freezer burnt food is better than no food.

The key was that we never opened the freezer while power was out. Regularly opening an unplugged freezer would have melted things a lot faster. Chest freezers also do much better than fridge freezers.

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Re:World Economy Shudders as Coronavirus Threatens Global Su... by bosie on Monday February 24, 2020 @09:33AM (#22404221)

Thank you very much, was really not sure how long a frozen but unplugged freezer would last.

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Re:World Economy Shudders as Coronavirus Threatens Global Su... by scrumbledober on Monday February 24, 2020 @03:42PM (#22408222)

The bigger the freezer, and the more full of frozen stuff, the longer it will last. Bigger freezer because the volume to surface area ratio is larger, and more full because there's just more thermal mass at a low temperature to buffer any heat leaking in.

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