# Food rotting when removed from fridge
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-rotting-when-removed-from-fridge/23519
**Category:** The Garage
**Created:** [May 3, 2020, 2:17am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-rotting-when-removed-from-fridge/23519 "2020-05-03T02:17:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Grimm\_Spector](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Grimm_Spector)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2020, 2:17am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-rotting-when-removed-from-fridge/23519/1 "2020-05-03T02:17:29Z")
I’m having an issue where sometimes food that’s in a fridge, marked as cold, and says it has something around a day before going bad, rots literally instantly when I take it out of the fridge. Either on the tick I take it out or if I spend a second taking a single step away from my fridge.
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### Author:  [@Valase](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valase)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2020, 3:51am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-rotting-when-removed-from-fridge/23519/2 "2020-05-03T03:51:33Z")
I guess that’s the same problem as @Segertas mentioned in an other forum post:
> [@(fresh) (frozen) food instantly inedible](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/fresh-frozen-food-instantly-inedible/23429):
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> I froze a bunch of newly gathered blackberries, they’re split in 3 stacks (2 in one freezer 1 in a second) and one of those stacks behaves as expected, I take out any amount of berries, they’re still frozen and fresh and if heated they become (fresh) (hot). Now the other 2 stacks, if I take out any amount of berries, the next turn they’re no longer frozen nor fresh and their shelf life drops down from 2 days to 19 hours. Before this I froze ~10 fish sandwiches and after a few days of being fro…
The same bug was also mentioned a few months back, at the end of January:
> [@Food spoilage calculation currently broken?](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-spoilage-calculation-currently-broken/22606/5):
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> I think there is a serious issue with food rotting/spoilage calculation in the most recent updates. First I updated to 10109. I played around with it for a few days and everything with food (spoilage) looked fine - kind of (there’s a minor bug where you take out frozen food and a few secs later it becomes unfrozen). Then yesterday I updated to 10263 and saw the food spoilage issue. I had tons of frozen food (both raw and crafted food) in my minifreezers. I leave the area and come back 2 hours l…
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### Author:  [@Grimm\_Spector](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Grimm_Spector)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-rotting-when-removed-from-fridge/23519/3 "2020-05-03T14:54:49Z")
I’m afraid I don’t know the formal bug reporting process, do I need to go file a github issue or something?
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### Author:  [@Mantar](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mantar)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-rotting-when-removed-from-fridge/23519/4 "2020-05-03T16:57:18Z")
That is the best way to get your bug seen by all the various people who might fix it.
It also helps if you you can attach a save file wherein you can reliably reproduce the bug, like “open save; go to vehicle’s fridge; remove haggis; it instantly spoils.”
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### Author:  [@ThinkSome](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ThinkSome)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2021, 10:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-rotting-when-removed-from-fridge/23519/5 "2021-02-04T22:26:21Z")
I got this bug (in git 00efc6d7fe). The food in question (sandwich) was marked as 1h before going bad, and instantly went bad after heating it up with hotplate.
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### Author:  [@Valase](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valase)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2021, 10:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/food-rotting-when-removed-from-fridge/23519/6 "2021-02-04T22:35:57Z")
> [@ThinkSome](#):
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> […] instantly went bad after heating it up […]
Hot food spoils much, much faster than “normal” or cold temperated food.
By heating it on a hotplate, you’ve accelerated the rotting process enough that it just turned bad.
Please also note that the 1 hour is a guess your character mades, not actual time left.