>be me>live in the desert>100F 9 months a year>get grocery delivery from amazon or walmart>everything is completely thawed>whatever, put it back in the freezer>nothing bad happens even doe this a food safety violation or somethingSo is the rule against thawing and refreezing just total bullshit? Ive been eating thawed and refrozen food for like a year and nothing bad happened.Pic only semi-related because i like frozen pizza
>>22038862Food safety practices as a home cook are a guideline, not a hard rule. They're the best practice, but have a lot of flexibility, places that sell food just have to follow them because there's a lot of liabilities when serving customers and they can't afford any margin of error. Even if there's like a 5% chance of getting somebody sick, it's best to just eliminate the risk entirely. But you don't have to be that strict at home. Yeah, refreezing stuff is generally fine. It might affect the texture but that's probably it.
>>22038862>doeretard
>>22038865Okay but these are massive corporations doing this hundreds of times a day every single day 80% of the year. It's basically a normal standard practice at this point
>>22038862thawing outside of refrigeration can put food in the "danger zone" which is conducive for bacterial growth, but it usually isnt a problem unless you're keeping it there for a long time.they warn against thawing and refreezing because people will freeze nearly-bad meat then thaw it, use only some of it, then refreeze it, and thaw it out again later. after they thaw it the second time bacteria has probably multiplied more than they were expecting and can sometimes be dangerous. the only think you'll experience from your situation is some mild frost buildup in the packs from freezing condensation, and that could give you freezer burn.
>>22038872Is this your opinion or an LLM's
>>22038871What corporations are doing that? Are you talking about Amazon/Walmart? Once you buy the food from them, it's not their responsibility anymore, they upheld the safety standards until it passed into your possession. They're not the ones refreezing your food.
>>22038862You can freeze everything that you at that moment could also eat.Cycle of thawing and refreezing won't do the best quality wise to it tho.
>>22038862How many people do you think get injured every year putting q tips in their ear? Companies put warnings on things to avoid being sued, however unlikely.
>>22038877So you're telling me walmart feels comfortable delivering 5 thawed pizzas and dozens of thawed burritos to a customer and their legal excuse is "we assumed the customer was going to immediately cook and eat all of it"?
>>22038882Yeah, why not? Are you gonna take that case against Walmart's legal team? Good luck.
>>22038876me.. why would i use an llm for this simple question..?
>>22038884Ever hear of a class action dumbass?
>>22038881Years ago I remember seeing a similar warning on covid19 test swabs.
>>22038886Yeah, people getting their croch burned by hot coffee, or asbestos in baby powder.
>>22038886>class action dumbassA very stupid lawyer?
>>22038886Buddy I don't know the specifics of the law but I guarantee you Walmart's multi billion dollar legal team has thought this out more than you have.
>>22038909Major corporations break the law all the time, the perceived potential benefit just needs to outweigh the perceived potential risk
>>22038884Realistically with pictures he could get a refund or even force a charge back. The latter would get him banned from food delivery, maybe even banned from walmart entirely, but people who use food delivery services are retarded and deserve the garbage they get. It's not like the second attempt at delivery would be magically better, and after enough refunds he would be banned anyway.
>>22040474My experience with delivery companies is they won't ban you for complaining, but eventually they will stop offering you refunds and will just tell you to cope and seethe even if there was legitimately a catastrophic error with the order
>>22038877Most fulfillment drivers are independent contractors affiliated with companies like DoorDash. There are a lot of layers to it, and ultimately the legal burden is on some random delivery driver.
>>22041763Walmart has a service where a wagie will put the groceries directly into your freezer, and these deliveries are done by full time walmart employees instead of contractors. So in many cases walmart is literally taking thawed food and putting it in your freezer, strongly implying that this is acceptable to them and not the heinous violation of food safety standards that it is.
>>22041756no, they do banyou for complaining. especially if you arent a cuck bitch like me and doesnt cave the second they offer a pithy discount and seek full reimbursement.
>>22038886>Ever hearI used to, until I put a Q-Tip in my ear canal
>>22041780You are probably a low class retard and called the jeet customer service rep a jeet, earning a ban
>>22038869y u so mad doe
>>22038862bad things only happen if the food is within 41f-141f range for more than 6 hours according to the gubbament, texturally things might change with thaw and refreeze but it's food safe.
>>22038876I'm getting so sick of this. Any well thought out post is now suspected of being written by some kind of software. You seriously can't fucking tell the difference? This community doesn't even deserve the few intelligent effortposters we still have.
>>22038882This has got to be fucking bait. How retarded are you??The fucking driver and you living in BFE in the heat doesn't have anything to do with who sold the food. If a delivery truck rolled up and their refrigeration system was down and they brought you dripping chicken you might have something. All of this is on you, as you keep getting told by people with common sense. Your situation is not typical anyway.
>>22041777No. The Walmart employees will gather and bring your order to your car outside the store, but if you're ordering a delivery in the middle of nowhere you're paying a 3rd party to shop and drive it to you. How do you not know how this works?
>>22042048Usually they use 3rd party contractors, but if you order the premium service that requires the wagie to fuck around in your house, walmart will send a full time walmart employee because they don't trust a random mexican for this more sensitive work. Perhaps you live in an area that is too remote or poor to have access to this service?
