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?

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

My nose is pretty sensitive, so going by smell seems reasonable to me. I wonder, of course, at the borderline of things -- when it's started to have a few more bacteria and their byproduct toxins than you really want, but you can't smell them yet -- or maybe smell comes solidly before the stuff will make you sick. Come to think of it, evolution-wise, that last idea makes lots of sense.

[ed: I kan spel. yea.]