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I tried the 1p freezer trick that prevents ‘danger zone’ food - and it worked like a dream

If your freezer gets too warm, bacteria can form. But sometimes you will never know that's happened...

But if you’ve been away it’s hard to know whether your perishable food’s gone on the turn and become a health hazard - especially if it’s defrosted and sat in ‘danger zone’ temperatures where bacteria can grow - then frozen up again. This trick originated in the US, the home of supersize fridges, as the coin in a cup technique and many swear by it as a way of making sure food hasn’t gone bad when you weren’t looking. Jam it in alongside the old ice cream and that tupperware container full of unidentified brown sludge that’s been there since the Tony Blair government and leave it in peace.

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