Member - Porl posted:

I wuz gonna say that. Read up on vacuum sealers, amazing things, got one and I use it, spent a week a away the other day with vacuum sealed meat, even on the bone (soon get to tell if there's a leak cause it's obviously not vacuumed after a leak), no hint of smelly bacteria or anything after 7 days at the bottom of the evakool fridge on a 4C setting. Probably would go a few weeks. And how long will you be away from a butcher? My Eurolab unit draws 110w so I imgaine a cheap 300W modified sine wave inverter would be overkill. Takes less than a minute so bugger all current draw. A hell of a lot cheaper than running a freezer.

Mind you I did go round Australia on a motorcyle in 1987 and ate fresh fruit and vegetables, canned stuff and peanut butter and jam sandwhiches when out of towns. You can get by. Lentil vegetable stews and cous cous etc. No fridge at all needed then.

Member Brian (Gold Coast) posted:

Member - Porl posted: ...... >snip<"spent a week a away the other day with....snip<"


Geeeeeze Porl..... "a week away the other day"......... impressive mate!! Another reason to buy Toyota!!! LOL..... just kiddin' mate.

On a more serious note, the vacuum packed meat is definitely the way to go, we had our meat vacuum packed for a Birdsville trip last year and were still eating it after returning home!! We had a couple of packs that had chops and the bone managed to pierce the vac packing, we didn't get any smell at all, but the meat went green and obviously that was enough to let us know there was a problem.

Cheers

Brian