Janet Groene did a nice job with her piece in today's edition of Mad Mariner; a nice collection of recommendations.
One of my personal pet peeves is monitoring the temperatures in my chill chest and freezer when I'm away from the marina. When I leave the boat, the temps are fine -- nice and cold. And when I get back to the boat, sometimes days later, the temps are also fine. But how do I know what's happened in between?
I've come up with a couple of tricks, but I think the ultimate solution will be some kind of min-max recording thermometer I can leave inside the fridge and check when I come back aboard.
In the meantime, I leave the microwave powered while connected to shorepower. That way, when I get back to the boat and see the familiar blinking "12:00" I know the power has been off for at least long enough to trip up the clock.
Then I check the popsicle in the freezer. If it's de-formed or otherwise melted and re-frozen, I assume that both it and the fridge were without power long enough for safe temps to have been compromised and I start tossing.
Anybody have a source for that little min-max thermometer?
Tom
Joined: 2007-08-07