Frozen Food: How Long Is Too Long?

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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After their dad served 4-year-old fish for dinner one night, listener Max wants to know how long you can safely keep food in the freezer. Food safety expert Haley Oliver serves up the juicy details. Plus, can tiny eyes see things we can’t? Spider expert Sebastian Echeverri takes us behind some of the most impressive peepers in the animal kingdom. Thanks to listener Miles. In the original version of this episode, we made an error about the types of light jumping spiders can see. All jumping spiders that have been studied are able to see UV and green light. Some species, including Oregon’s paradise jumping spider, can see red as well. We apologize for the error and have corrected it in this version of the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You've reached the Every Little Thing Helpline. Please pass the Tums after the beep.
0:07.0	Hi, my name is Max and earlier today I ate some fish and after eating said fish my dad informed me
0:18.9	that that fish have been frozen all the way back in 2016 four years ago.
0:26.0	So I just needed to know, is it really okay to eat food that's been frozen that long.
0:34.0	Thanks so much.
0:36.0	Hello?
0:40.0	Hey Max, it's Flora from E.L.
0:41.0	T.
0:42.0	Hi.
0:43.0	So it seems like you survived the four-year-old fish.
0:46.0	I sure did.
0:47.0	You lived to tell the tail.
0:49.0	The fish tail.
0:50.0	Was the fish an isolated incident?
0:54.0	I would say that this sort of thing happens quite frequently.
0:59.0	Like my dad freezes things from Thanksgiving and then we eat it a year later or something crazy like that.
1:04.4	And that's, I guess that's the other thing too is that he doesn't date anything in the freezer.
1:08.8	It's just kind of ambiguous meat that he'll just keep in there until he decides the time is right.
1:17.0	Well, how does he decide the time is right?
1:19.0	Like, is he working methodically through all of his 2016 items right now?
1:24.7	Who knows?
1:25.7	I have to wonder too if certain things just get lost in the freezer for a long time
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