Any Home Bakers Here?

[Artichoke Lover]

Depends on what went wrong with the fridge. If it's anything with compressor or coils,just get a new one, if it's just a board or something then the repair is probably the better way to go.

Is the food spoiled for sure? just because it defrosted, unless it's been defrosted for days and you just now noticed it, you might just have a HUGE dinner tonight, hey family, smorgasbord at the dinner table. It's worth at least trying to save some if you can. Yah that sucks for sure.

Not to be lecturing but THIS is why I check ALL my fridges and freezers daily. Sometimes it may not even be dead, but a power glitch caused it to lock up, and the reset just needs to be pushed on the compressor.... even if you are not mechanically inclined, just knowing your stuff is working is a good thing, lets say you caught it at the very beginning, oh hmm, there's ice, but it's moist, oh darn this is broke, get the stuff moved into another one, a new one, or 60 qt coolers full of ice until you do get fixed etc, Whatever, but it sure beats throwing away hundreds of dollars of food. They make alarms you can put in your freezers, it's a cheap little box basically that you set a temperature on it and it screeches to get your attention if it goes above it. Might be worth the 30 dollars to get one of those.

Aaron

We’ve bought the freezer alarms and they are well worth the money for us. I think we paid 10-20 for ours a few years ago and they are still working great.

 

[Ascholten]

We’ve bought the freezer alarms and they are well worth the money for us. I think we paid 10-20 for ours a few years ago and they are still working great.

I have one of those on the floor behind my toilet. Had an incident where the tube coming into the toilet broke spraying water everywhere upstairs. Thank GOD, I was home and caught it very early and was able to throw sheets etc down before the water got thru to the downstairs floor too bad. This one bathroom happened to be right above the power panel in the garage, with also 45 KW of Lithium battery storage from my solar system. Let's dump dirty water on a 240 volt power panel and 1000 Lbs of lithium batteries, what could go wrong there?

I bring this up since we are talking about things breaking, and costing us tons of money when they do. Little things like this are easily fixed / averted/ alerted to, but we generally don't think of it until AFTER it bit us in the ass. Freezer alarms, leak alarms behind the toilets, under the sinks, behind the washing machine (hose rupture) can save you thousands and possibly loss of your home if a pipe or hose were to let loose on you. They even make some now that are wifi connected and will text you if it goes off...

Aaron

 

[Artichoke Lover]

I have one of those on the floor behind my toilet. Had an incident where the tube coming into the toilet broke spraying water everywhere upstairs. Thank GOD, I was home and caught it very early and was able to throw sheets etc down before the water got thru to the downstairs floor too bad. This one bathroom happened to be right above the power panel in the garage, with also 45 KW of Lithium battery storage from my solar system. Let's dump dirty water on a 240 volt power panel and 1000 Lbs of lithium batteries, what could go wrong there?

I bring this up since we are talking about things breaking, and costing us tons of money when they do. Little things like this are easily fixed / averted/ alerted to, but we generally don't think of it until AFTER it bit us in the ass. Freezer alarms, leak alarms behind the toilets, under the sinks, behind the washing machine (hose rupture) can save you thousands and possibly loss of your home if a pipe or hose were to let loose on you. They even make some now that are wifi connected and will text you if it goes off...

Aaron

We had the pressure valve go out on our hot water heater while we were getting in the car to go visit family for 2 weeks. It took less than five minutes for it to flood a 2 car garage with 2 inches of water. We were able to plug it with a wine cork and a family member was able to come unlock the door for the repair guy but I hate to think what would happened if it chose to break 10 minutes later.

 

[Grammy60]

We’ve bought the freezer alarms and they are well worth the money for us. I think we paid 10-20 for ours a few years ago and they are still working great.

I've never heard of alarms like this we lose power often in really bad storms, but that's about it so far. We just make sure the freezers and refrigerator stay closed and the food will good longer. Just my experience

 

[N F C]

We had the pressure valve go out on our hot water heater while we were getting in the car to go visit family for 2 weeks. It took less than five minutes for it to flood a 2 car garage with 2 inches of water. We were able to plug it with a wine cork and a family member was able to come unlock the door for the repair guy but I hate to think what would happened if it chose to break 10 minutes later.

Lucky you were still there and had a wine cork handy. Guess that's one good reason to drink wine

 

[bruceha2000]

"Here, play with your knife". We were dining outside and sitting at a patio table, the kid was enjoying sticking the butter knife down into the openings in the table top.

Training for becoming a serial killer in her later years??

Woke up this morning - the fridge is dead. Everything in the freezer is completely defrosted and has to be thrown out. That means all my leftover mini-meatloaves, chicken enchiladas, taco meat, sloppy joes and diced chicken that I had for quick meals is headed for the garbage.

That really sucks. Had it happen to our 6 Y/O refrigerator 2 years ago. Paid about $300 less to have the compressor replaced than it would cost to replace it on sale.

Thanks for the badge congrats, didn't even know I got it until I was reading Debby's BDay thread. She got an Educator badge, she's got a full set now

And congrats to @Aria

 

[Artichoke Lover]

I was planning on doing some baking today but I don’t think that’s happening. I took my mom to get COVID shot yesterday and I was lucky enough that they were able to work me in to. My are is really sore today and I can’t raise it above the shoulder so I definitely can’t knead mix or honestly reach to put stuff in the mixer since it’s shoulder high on me when it’s sitting on the counter

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Bakers, good morning one and all!

Have a great day!

 

[jnicholes]

Morning everyone!

 

[ronott1]

I was planning on doing some baking today but I don’t think that’s happening. I took my mom to get COVID shot yesterday and I was lucky enough that they were able to work me in to. My are is really sore today and I can’t raise it above the shoulder so I definitely can’t knead mix or honestly reach to put stuff in the mixer since it’s shoulder high on me when it’s sitting on the counter

Did you already have COVID?