-----Original Message----- From: Mike [SMTP:erazmus@WANTREE.COM.AU] Sent: Monday, August 11, 1997 12:37 PM To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Reliability thinking and risk assesment At 05:54 PM 8/11/97 +0930, MikeS wrote: [snip] . And if I go away for more than 2 days - I turn off the freezer - since I wouldn't risk the bacterial contamination in case the utility turned off the supply while I was gone and just happened to turn it back on a couple of hours before I got back, I know of one person who got sick for this very reason ! Seems like a lot of trouble to transfer all your frozen goods to the neighbor's freezer, just because you are going away for a few days. Here's an old Indian trick I use. I have a baggie with a few ice cubes in it. If it got warm enough to threaten the food, the baggie would be filled with a misshapen blob of ice.