At 01:08 PM 8/11/97 -0400, you 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.

No. I don't keep a lot of frozen food, only fish fingers and kangaroo
meat. I'm not one of those people that use huge freezers. Where possible I
eat fresh food each and every day. The freezer is very rarely used.

Anyway - its a nice idea about the bag of ice cubes, simple but effective
- I'll remember that and reduce my risk even further ;)

rgds

mike
Perth, Western Australia