SarahFair
Senior Member
We are camping up in the mountains this weekend and I had all my meats in a cooler.
Ground beef
Hot dogs
Smoked sausage
Cooked BBQ
Bacon
Deli Turkey Slices
The cooler was kept outside in a bear box, I think the outside low hit 55° around 6am.
This morning about 7:30-8 when the boys went to get the food they said half the ice was melted.
I checked the cooler with the surface temperature thermometer and down around the ice it was in the 30s, up around the top it was 42/43°
I put a probe thermometer in the bbq since it was what was at the top and the top of it read 50°, the middle was in the 40s.
The ground beef, which was under the BBQ was reading 37°.
The Deli meat and some of the bacon was around the top with the bbq.
Everything was cool to the touch
Normally I wouldn't think anything of it, just add more ice and roll with it...
But my sister just went to the urgent care with a bad case of bacterial colitis from a cruise 2 week ago and I'm a little more iffy.
Would you be cautious with some of these meats, all of these meats, none of these meats?
Ground beef
Hot dogs
Smoked sausage
Cooked BBQ
Bacon
Deli Turkey Slices
The cooler was kept outside in a bear box, I think the outside low hit 55° around 6am.
This morning about 7:30-8 when the boys went to get the food they said half the ice was melted.
I checked the cooler with the surface temperature thermometer and down around the ice it was in the 30s, up around the top it was 42/43°
I put a probe thermometer in the bbq since it was what was at the top and the top of it read 50°, the middle was in the 40s.
The ground beef, which was under the BBQ was reading 37°.
The Deli meat and some of the bacon was around the top with the bbq.
Everything was cool to the touch
Normally I wouldn't think anything of it, just add more ice and roll with it...
But my sister just went to the urgent care with a bad case of bacterial colitis from a cruise 2 week ago and I'm a little more iffy.
Would you be cautious with some of these meats, all of these meats, none of these meats?