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justincasei812
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2012 03:10pm
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Not sure if this is out there or not but....
When packing things up for the winter months when you will not be back to the cabin until spring what types of food are safe and that you would normally leave with freezing temps? I am sure all boxed food as long as it was kept in a tote or something that the critters can't get into. Anyone leave anything else so they are not repacking it and bring it back in the spring??
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2012 03:24pm
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We have our cabin at 8800 feet in northern NM. Temperatures can dip to -20 F but don't usually stay there long (day or so, not weeks/months.) My experiments have shown that cooking oils just solidify but thaw okay. Ketchup in a plastic bottle that is not full like a new one is okay. We leave those foil/plastic aseptic containers of milk and juice over the winter. Actually we stock pile those in fall because we snow shoe up to the cabin in winter. We leave peanut and almond butters in glass; no issues.
Canned goods are generally a no=no unless the tempers only go slightly below freezing as the salt content keeps them from freezing right at 32 F.
Spaghetti sauce in foil packs freeze okay, although the texture may change.
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wakeslayer
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2012 03:39pm
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As I mentioned in another thread, we do not worry much about this stuff. We don't leave much for canned goods or full, jarred stuff in the winter, anything else is fine. No critters really as we are tight and leave hedgeballs out.
I have left beer with marginal success. Sometimes they explode, sometimes they don't. Round bottomed cans just mean you have to drink them, not set them down.
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justincasei812
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:21pm
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This is the first winter with a cabin and just not sure what to keep up there and what not. My thought process is that you stop bringing things in at deer season and eat what is there. This way less to take back home. There are just some things that I would think would be easier to leave if at all possible without destroying it.
Thanks all.
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2012 05:26pm
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Got interrupted before....
We leave all sorts of dry foods from dried fruits, through rice, pasta, potato flakes, bread and pancake mixes... Maple syrup just solidifies but thaws good. I've had wine get slushy, but it still tasted fine.
I did a lot of testing in the home freezer.
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justincasei812
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# Posted: 18 Jan 2012 09:58pm
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Good to know that most things can be left there other than things that can freeze and burst. Slushy wine sounds good.
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 18 Jan 2012 10:07pm
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We left wine that froze and the bottles broke open...the cabin smelled good though.
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wakeslayer
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# Posted: 18 Jan 2012 10:48pm
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In vino veritas !!
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Bevis
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# Posted: 18 Jan 2012 11:12pm
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Mtn Don...was it you that made a post about a in ground storage container ?
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CabinBuilder
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# Posted: 18 Jan 2012 11:23pm
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Older related thread about winter food storage.
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justincasei812
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# Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:37pm
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Thanks. I just read that a few hours ago. Looks pretty interesting.
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