Originally Posted by atikovi
Originally Posted by AZjeff
Originally Posted by loneryder
Could you explain how a meat locker works?
a huge walk in 0 degree freezer that had lockable drawers that customers kept their frozen meat in. Like a bank's safe deposit area for frozen meat.
So what happens if the power goes out for a few days after a storm or the refrigeration conks out? Is the meat insured? Are there backup systems? Just checking in case I want to get myself frozen at the end.
Can't answer that hypothetical since it never happened when I worked there, never heard of it being a problem (I was friends of the owners). He did his own refrigeration repairs, there was a row of 15 or so compressors in the basement. There was no gas generator anywhere. Can imagine nobody opened the door if power was out.
Where I worked pigs came in whole (gutted), beef was already halfed or quartered. They told me about the old days when they processed live chickens, I remember what looked like a long sawhorse out back in the weeds that had large funnel shaped metal cones attached....