Throw out left out frozen food?

[ReefingRy]

There is another thread going but I would like to hear others ideas.

If you leave frozen fish food out overnight and it thawed would you throw it out or referees it?

 

[ReefingRy]

Refreeze it*

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Refreeze it

 

[TimeConsumer]

We're missing a choice: Eat it and see what happens.

 

[Jone]

throw it away,,is food worth the aggravation it POSSIBLY can cause..by more and learn from the mistake

 

[cymen]

I agree with the person on the other thread who pointed out what fish eat in the wild. So I'm for refreeze.

 

[reefer1970]

I agree, If fish in the wild died or got sick from food that was over a day old, Cod would cost $1000/ lb. I would weigh the cost vs. putting something nasty back in my freezer and making my hot pockets smell like brine shrimp if anything.

 

[ReefingRy]

Thanks for the thoughts. The more I read the more I can't decide what I should do next time.

 

[ca1ore]

I have had frozen pack fall out of my garage freezer and thaw out on the floor overnight. As long as they don't smell rancid (just fishy), they go back into the freezer. I've not had a case of fishy food poisoning yet.

 

[Member No. 1]

+1 for refreeze

 

[homer1475]

Refreeze.

Not everyone's LFS is a stones throw away. By time I get home(2 hour drive), even in a cooler with freeze packs, my frozen is thawed.

 

[Jscwerve]

I actually did this exact thing on Saturday morning.

Digging through the freezer on Friday night, set pack of mysis cubes on top to get to something else. Forgot to put them back in. Saturday morning, notice thawed pack.

Chucked it.

When I come across situations like this I just ask the question of myself "is it worth the risk of hundreds, perhaps thousands of dollars in livestock, time, effort and headache to save $8 in fish food? Brings things into perspective for me.

It might be just fine to use 99,999 times out of a 100,000. Do you want to be that one that it went bad for?

 

[cloak]

Gosh, from the results posted above I don't think I would ever have to pay for frozen food again. Just send me yours...

Refreeze it!

 

[JMorris271]

Refreeze

 

[ReefingRy]

Wow

 

[Sk8r]

Nobody's mentioning a very important factor.
We keep our house between 63 and 68 up here, and it's snowing. If I left a packet out, it wouldn't have as much chance to spoil overnight as somebody who lives in Miami.

 

[acebigalowe]

How long we talking here? Overnight? The weekend? Where is it? The fridge? A cool area? A warm area?