Advice on frozen food

I ordered some frozen food from the web (lobster eggs and cyclops). Rather naively I assumed it would be sent guarranteed next day delivery - it wasn't it was sent first class, posted on monday and only received today. So needless to say it has completely thawed out.

I guess in this weather it is unlikely to have gotten heated up, do you think it would be ok just to refreeze? Of course I keep telling myself that fish have no problems eating dead fish and I'm sure not all food is that fresh in the wild so this shouldn't be a problem!!

Don't shoot me for saying this but I have a greedy angel fish who will eat directly out of a pippette, so I though I might just feed him some first and wait a couple of days and see if he is ok before general use, unless you guys tell me that it should be thrown out??? It cost too much money to just throw out if it doesn't need to be!

Long answer short: Would you eat a frozen chicken that has been thawed then refrozen?
J

Kurosaki J wrote:

Long answer short: Would you eat a frozen chicken that has been thawed then refrozen?
J

Hmmm..........not necessarily a good analogy - I used to do it all the time when I was a student - money was tight!!

As soon as food start to thaw out it starts to develope bacterias on it , a whole chook is probably an extreme example because it will hold its temp a lot better than a small packet of lobster eggs, if you think they have been thawed for more than 24 hours-- thats 24 hours for bacteria to grow on it .
I wouldn't feed it to my fish even if it cost quite a bit-- that's me personally.
J

I must admit I'm very reluctant to

im not 100% certain but i dont think it would be any good i certainly wouldnt risk it and would be asking for a refund if it was me

I've already emailed..........I did email yesterday when I was expecting them and he didn't reply!

throw it in the bin and ask for a refund or replacement via next day

I'll let you know how it goes!

Hey did they get back to you regardin the frozen food??

I think our bodies would be able to with stand a little bacteria, but a small plec or bn body wouldn't be a good idea to test it. :flower:

He's resending them guarranteed delivery, I should get them tomorrow......so lets see!

The manager of a local suppliers advised us to only buy irradiated frozen foods, that way they can safely be refrozen. Hence we buy BIG blocks of frozen bloodworm, semi defrost it to split into portions, and then refreeze.

Angi-N-Wayne wrote:

The manager of a local suppliers advised us to only buy irradiated frozen foods, that way they can safely be refrozen. Hence we buy BIG blocks of frozen bloodworm, semi defrost it to split into portions, and then refreeze.

Yup done this before sometimes by the 1kg slabs which I cut up and store in a sealed container

Angi-N-Wayne wrote:

semi defrost it to split into portions, and then refreeze.

I just whack mine on the floor in a thick bag than store the chips in ice cube trays for later haha

Angi-N-Wayne wrote:

The manager of a local suppliers advised us to only buy irradiated frozen foods, that way they can safely be refrozen. Hence we buy BIG blocks of frozen bloodworm, semi defrost it to split into portions, and then refreeze.

Hi Angi, where do you get this from?Yvette