47 hours no power. The fridge is nice and clean now!

[Phentex]

I came home from work early so I could clean out the fridge before my husband gets home. He's always saying it smells fine about three week old leftovers. When all was said and done, I found some little part that fell from somewhere. Looks like a clip so maybe it's for one of the shelves. I swear I had cleaned the shelves & drawers not long ago but they still looked icky.

Got rid of some condiments that I wanted to get rid of anyway. I think the pickles and olives and such are okay. On the fence about some jams and applesauce my neighbor made.

I haven't tackled the chest freezer yet. The little bit of meat in there was still frozen thanks to the Blue Apron ice packs. A piece of salmon was cold but mostly thawed so I think we can cook it soon. The frozen yogurt was gone.

Eggs? Will they pass the smell test?

Hi everybody!

[TexasTowelie]

1. No eggs or yogurt.

Once the temperature passes 40 degrees most of what is in the refrigerator should be discarded. I wouldn't eat the salmon either.

http://www.miamiherald.com/living/food-drink/article172631041.html

[Phentex]

9. We ate the salmon.

It was in the outside freezer which still had ice.

[trof]

2. I'm just like your husband.

Miz t. is forever forbidding me to eat stuff that looks/smells OK to me.
Sorry you got no juice.

Eggs:
Place the egg in a bowl of cold water. If it floats, it's bad. More ?
Hold the egg to your ear and shake it. If it sloshes, it's bad. ?
Crack the egg open on a plate. If the yolk is flat and breaks easily, it's bad. ?
Crack open the egg and sniff it. A bad smell means a bad egg. ?
Check the egg white color. If it is pink, is green, or has black/green spots, it's bad. ?
Check the numbers and dates on the package, and understand their meaning.
Where yat?

[Phentex]

10. In Atlanta...

I am funny about fresh spinach. I don't like it when it starts to get wet and slimy but my husband always says oh, it'll cook down fine. So I had dumped it into a bowl for the compost but hadn't taken it outside when my husband got home. He picked up a leaf and sniffed it with a sad look on his face. NO! I said.

He did end up throwing away half of a bell pepper that I missed somehow. That was a big move for him.

[BigmanPigman]

3. My friend used to sail from San Francisco to Hawaii

and she told me a dozen eggs easily last over a week at room temperature. It is true, I tried it. At Easter I dye raw eggs and leave them out as decoration for over a week and they are normal.

[blaze]

4. I was surprised when my Mom, now 92, told me

that eggs weren't refrigerated until some time in the 70s.

[enough]

6. The best cooks of my mother and grandmother's generations would be very unhappy if they had to

use eggs that had ever seen the inside of a refrigerator. On the other hand, they knew exactly how old the eggs were.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. This is the reason eggs last so long...

Ever wonder how a hen can lay an egg a day until she has clutch of them, then sets on them and they all hatch at the same time, even tho some of the eggs are a week old?

A fresh egg from the nest has a protective coating. You can't see it, but it is there.
If you do not wash the egg until you are ready to use it, it will last easily for a week out of fridge.
but store bought eggs have been washed, then refrigerated. They still can be held for a week or so in the fridge, but remember they also
are a week or more old by the time they get put out in the grocery store.

I do miss having chickens.....

[Phentex]

11. eggs seem fine

haven't tried to cook one yet.

[blaze]

5. Welcome back!!

Hope your life is getting back to some sort of normal.

[Phentex]

12. Thanks!

Went to work past few days. Random traffic lights out here and there and of course someone honked at me when I stopped to treat it like a 4 way stop.

[Warpy]

7. Yogurt will survive for a month past its use date with refrigeration

but will get more puckery. Yogurt kept at tropical temperatures will only survive for a couple of days and then it will start to grow things you don't want in it and be too sour to eat, anyway.

Perishable food perishes pretty quickly. The US egg industry stupidly washes off the protective coating the hen puts on her eggs, so they go bad very quickly without refrigeration. Unwashed eggs with bits of feather and chicken poo on them will stay good at room temperature for at least a couple of weeks. Best way to tell if an egg is OK is to put it into a glass of water. If it sinks, it's fine. If it floats, bacteria have started to grow and produce gas in the large end. Toss it.

[Phentex]

13. I forgot about the egg test

I know it's been talked about here but I didn't remember. I tested one in water and it seems ok. I will test each one before I use it.

What do you think about homemade jam?

Anything that was just drips and drabs (as my mother would say) I got rid of. But I am still not sure about the jams. Spicy peach ginger jam and fig jams are like gold!

[Warpy]

14. If the seal is good and it smells OK and there's no black stuff on the lid

they are probably good. Fruit acids and sugar are both preservatives. They used to seal jam jars with pieces of pig bladder, not terribly air tight but it worked. Just thought I'd throw that in.