Fridge burn?

[cjsmith]

Put a pound of ground beef in a self-defrost freezer and pretty soon it'll be brown around the edges.

Put it in the fridge and sooner or later you'll see a similar brown. I don't think my fridge crosses the freezing point, not since we lost an expensive bottle of insulin to that very thing and messed with the thermostat a tad. Is the blood simply draining out of the tissue? What's going on there?

Comments

[gdmusumeci.livejournal.com]

It's just oxidation -- bummer, huh? More disappointments courtesy of organic chemistry. :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hah! Yeah, I figure in another year or two I wouldn't have had to ask that question. :-)