This just makes me sick

[bearfan454]

The GFI plug tripped about a month ago. So I went around and pushed in the reset buttons on all of the GFI plugs in the bathrooms. Two weeks later I go to get a brisket out of the deep freezer in the garage and when I open the lid it's not cold. The one outlet in the garage just happened to be a GFI plug that the freezer was plugged in to. I just about puked from the smell. I had 8 or 9 full briskets, 5 or 6 slabs of spare ribs, and ALL MY DEER SAUSAGE that I had to throw out. There was about an inch of blood in the bottom of the freezer. I gagged as I bent down each time and got the briskets and ribs one by one and took them to the garbage can out by the street. I had been catching briskets and ribs on sale and stocking up for about a year. That's why I say it just makes me sick. Mrs bearfan says thing happen for a reason. Maybe eating all that meat would have caused an unhealthy thing to happen to me.

[hippywife]

1. Ouch! Sorry to hear that.

That's a huge loss of food and money. :wow:

[Warpy]

2. Ouch.

The only good to come of that would have been putting all that old, rotten blood onto the garden. Yes, it's not perfume, but it would have provided a hell of a lot of nitrogen to the soil.

However, yes, this might be a way of telling you to eat less meat, maybe to work down to Bittman's idea of half a pound of meat per week per person.

Then again, once you manage to use enough bleach and baking soda to get the stench out, you might just fill that freezer up again with more meat.

[noamnety]

3. omg

I'm feeling your pain, that's a huge loss - especially the deer sausage. :cry:

[pengillian101]

4. Man, that's gotta hurt.

My newer upright freezer quit once but it was winter and I had lots of coolers to go out in the snow. It was an electrical outlet gone bad. But that thing is right in my office so I can tell early-on if it's not working.

I really feel sorry about all that food and money loss. Especially the deer sausage, eh?

Really sucks when life gives you a kick in the pants. Maybe your wife's philosophy is right, who knows! Maybe the year-old frozen meat wasn't good anymore and would have made you ill. :shrug:

[supernova]

5. Man, I feel for ya

:hug:

Major suckage.

Cleaning out a rotting freezer or fridge has to be one of the worst domestic chores ever.

And all your hard work, too. I know from your posts how proud you have been to be able to make deer sausage.

The good news is, it's all replaceable.

[MajorChode]

6. The same thing happened to my father-in-law a few months ago

He lives in a fairly new home and all the outlets in the garage were GFCI. After it happened, I had to make some wiring changes to make the outlet a non-GFCI.

[Jazzgirl]

7. I know exactly how it smelled and how you felt.

I had that happen to me a few years ago when I lived in Overland Park, KS. The freezer was in the basement. I hadn't needed anything in a while and didn't notice the light wasn't on the front. My boyfriend went down to get something out of the freezer and came up looking really green. It took a while but we pulled everything and threw it in the dumpster. I could smell that rot for days.

I did find out how to salvage the freezer though. I cleaned it out with baking soda and bleach. I called General Electric and the guy said to buy activated charcoal and set it in the freezer and shut the door. He said it may take a few weeks but it will get rid of the smell completely. He was right and the freezer was like new again. It lasted another 18 years until about 2 months ago. I went to get something out of the freezer which is in the garage. The light was on so I thought it worked. I opened it and got a warm musty smell. It had died and everything had thawed. I went ahead and got rid of everything but at least I didn't have that horrid smell to deal with.

On edit: It will take more than one box of charcoal. It might take 3 but it will remove all the smell.

[htuttle]

8. It's the sort of loss that even a caveman would understand

Seriously, having to discard your entire food store is traumatizing on a primitive level. Kind of like going from wealthy to broke in an instant when you opened the lid on the freezer.

[Beacool]

9. I'm so sorry.

I don't blame you for being upset. So much waste of meat and money too!!!

:hug:

[Tab]

10. In the news today

It ain't the red meat, it's the processed meat (sausage, hot dogs, bacon, shit like that) that does you in. Probably all that sodium and nitrites.

Sucks, and that stuff's a pain to clean and dispose of too.

As far as your GFI, something's tripping them - maybe one of your appliances has a short, unless you've just added so many appliances you've overloaded your circuit. Good luck tracking it.