Answer to the previous riddle

[beowabbit]

8½. Turn refrigerator and freezer back on.

If you leave out step 8½, then you have to make sure you perform step 10, which is “come home a few days later to a fridge and freezer full of ruined food.”

Comments

[beowabbit]

Well, since I did that Saturday afternoon and everything in the freezer was still frozen on Wednesday when I took something out — it took till yesterday night for most of the contents to have thawed —, I suspect the couple hours it took for the freezer to cool down wouldn’t have made a lot of difference. (Probably because the freezer was very close to full, so all the food acted like ice in a cooler.) But yeah. And if I had turned it back on before refilling the freezer, that might have increased the likelihood that I remembered it.