On Dec 2, 9:22*pm, 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 40 C+ 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 a screened-in back porch. Any time it's at least as cold as
the refrigerator (November through March, usually), I have no
problem using it as such. In the very coldest weather it can get
below freezing, so I have to be careful about that, if the food isn't
supposed to freeze (like a head of lettuce).

It's convenient for me that the big food holidays (Thanksgiving and
Christmas) fall when it's cold out and I can use the porch for
supplemental refrigeration. I usually refer to it as "God's
refrigerator"
(even though I'm an atheist).

I'm about halfway up--at roughly 42 degrees N latitude.

Cindy Hamilton