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Default Using the Car Boot as a Cooler.

Welsh Dog wrote:
> Back in the UK Master Chef Delia Smith recently advocated leaving a
> dish of cooked turkey legs in the car boot *overnight* to cool before
> being properly refrigerated if eaten cold!
>
> Wouldn't work here in Oz because temperatures of 40ºC+ do funny things
> to poultry. If we left it out overnight it'd be tapping on the door by
> morning asking to come back in!!
>
> Over there tho surely the weather is cold enough to make it a
> reasonable option. Saves wrecking the fridge after all!
>
> Anyone else think leaving it overnight is acceptable... in Northern
> hemisphere cars of course?


I have left things in the car to cool here during winter.... if it is
not too cold.