My $40 temp alarm just saved $200+ of food!

[Michael_in_TX]

If you don't have a temperature alarm of some type on your freezers, please get one.

So I'm in the kitchen washing the dishes and hear this alarm noise, like an iPhone alarm. I go into the bedroom, where my phone is and as I am walking towards the phone it gets louder. I'm thinking to myself, what on earth did I set an alarm for for 8:33 pm at night? However, as I get nearly next to the phone, it is clear the alarm sound is not coming from my phone.

It is coming from my wireless temperature monitor that is sitting next to it! My chest freezer is at 15 F! It is normally at zero!

I go back to the kitchen and the chest freezer -- that I literally had just walked past -- and notice its power light is off. Uh oh, but looking behind it, I was much relived. Somehow, the cats managed to pull on the cord and wiggle the plug loose. Pushing it back in immediately turned the compressor back on.

This thing must have been off for hours! And I wouldn't have known about it. I probably wouldn't have opened it until Tuesday or Wednesday. Yikes.

This little Acu-Rite thing just paid for itself lol. (I've got one of the dual channel ones...900 MHz I think....one probe is in the chest freezer and the second one is in the refrigerator.)

Now I'm thinking of upgrading to one that has wifi capability so I would be alerted if I wasn't home.

Whew.

[realdocBBQ]

Friggin' little DEMONS is what those hairballs are.

Glad you got the notice! What temp monitor do you use? BT or WiFi?

[Mosca]

I have a dual probe Thermoworks on mine. Peace of mind!

[Huskee]

Glad you had a happy ending with yours, it did its job! I have the alarm one on both my main kitchen fridge and full freezer. They're also helpful when the power goes out so you can see their current temps w/o havign to open them unnecessarily. The ThermoWorks Node (I believe) does what you're describing.

[Jerod Broussard]

"What are you doing??"
"Trying to waste $200+ in food."
"Why?"
"We're cats, you never seen the cartoon Cinderella??"

[texastweeter]

Haha

[Michael_in_TX]

What temp monitor do you use? BT or WiFi?

This is the exact one I have: https://www.amazon.com/AcuRite-Refri.../dp/B07XD68GX6

It's neither BT nor WiFi....it's in the 400 MHz band. Strong enough to reach from inside the freezer to entirely across the house (1 wall).

[Andrrr]

I have the same one and it works great for monitoring temps downstairs. I keep one sensor in the stand up freezer and the other in the fridge freezer. Luckily the only time the thing has ever made a noise was the low battery alert.

[yakima]

So, are you a childless cat man?

[Michael_in_TX]

I take it to a high art.

[FireMan]

This is another post I did not know existed until about 11 pm Sunday night that I am subscribed to.
Hmmmmm!

[Draznnl]

Just more evidence, as if more was needed, that cats are evil.
Glad you rescued your meat.

[SheilaAnn]

BF has my freezers plugged into a generator with an alarm on his phone and an app and whatnot.

[SmokingSteve]

SheilaAnn Sounds like you caught yourself a very good BF!