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> rural Ontario having a well stocked freezer is not optional. Especially in the winter the power would go out so frequently it was a serious limitation. This
by eatbitseveryday 5y ago
> rural Ontario having a well stocked freezer is not optional. Especially in the winter the power would go out so frequently it was a serious limitation.
This sucks, but is it not cold enough to put freezer items outside?
- kache_ 5y agoYou try lugging a whole deer's worth of venison outside to the snow every time your power goes out
- windowsrookie 5y agoSure, that should take less than 20 minutes and I'd get my workout in for the day.
- smnrchrds 5y agoAlso, are there not bears in rural Ontario? If there are bears (or other large predator animals) in the environment, putting food outside can be very dangerous.
- EngCanMan 5y agoBears aren't usually a problem in the winter, with hibernation and all...
- gpm 5y agoOnly black bears, even in summer they're dangerous to the food, but not really that dangerous to you (as long as you act reasonably). Racoons are more dangerous to food, too. There are bear proof barrels, which are frequently used for camping (and I'm not sure if I'd bet on them against a bear, but they keep racoons out), or if you don't have them you can tie your food up a tree and that does a pretty good job too.
- forinti 5y agoI think the idea was to have the freezer permanently in a cold place like a shed attached or very close to the house.
- squeaky-clean 5y agoAnd now every time you want something from the freezer you have to suit up. And forget grabbing food during a snowstorm.
- 0xbadcafebee 5y agoHow often are people going in their freezer??? I barely use mine. You grab something, cook up a week's worth of food. If you run out during a snowstorm, you just cook pantry food.
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoAre you made of sugar?
- jacquesm 5y agoCold storage like that is pretty common in the North (as are raccoon proof locks ;) ), and many people run outdoor woodstoves which require going outside to keep them running at least once every two days or so. Snowstorms are rare enough, even in Northern Canada that you can usually wait it out. If it lasts for days then that's a different story, but I only recall one multi-day blizzard over the five years that I was there.
- fknorangesite 5y agoCanada also has summer.
- jacquesm 5y agoNo, Canada has only two seasons: winter and construction.
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- colechristensen 5y agoA chest freezer in a garage or porch solves this problem and will stay safely cold for days.
- short12 5y agoI'm hardly the strongest guy in the world but that doesn't listen exactly seem like a very strenuous effort. Am I missing something? Hell I'd probably just keep everything Ina chest freezer in the garage or shed year round located on an external wall
- mixmastamyk 5y agoIt's pretty darn heavy. The solution of course is to cut it into manageable pieces before freezing.
- scythe 5y agoFrozen food is supposed to stay below 0 F (-18 C) [1]. It will be cold outside, but it probably isn't going to stay below 0 F all day every day. For example, the average January high in Timmins, Ontario is +13 F. 1: https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/safe-food-handling https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/safe-food...