Freezer tools
The pages here answer the question a food card cannot: when. How long a thaw will take, how much of a power cut your freezer has left, whether the thing you just defrosted can go back in. Each one runs on published USDA, FDA and CDC guidance and shows its working.
All freezer tools
Will a 20 lb turkey thaw in three days?
How long frozen food takes to thaw in the fridge, in cold water, or in the microwave, from the FSIS per-pound rates — plus when to start it.
Thawing timeThe power is out. What in the freezer is still safe?
A live countdown of the 48-hour full-freezer and 24-hour half-full windows, and what CDC says you can refreeze or cook when the power returns.
Power-outage checkIt thawed. Can it go back in?
A four-question check on refreezing: how it thawed, how long it was warm, and whether it was raw or cooked — with the USDA rule behind each answer.
Can I refreeze this?Is two-year-old frozen chicken still good?
Look up any of the 2,000 foods here and see its own freezer quality window — and why a food can be safe and still be past its best.
How long it lastsWhat is actually in the freezer, and what is oldest?
A free freezer inventory that lives in your browser: item, quantity, date frozen, and the food’s own quality window. No account, nothing uploaded.
Freezer inventoryThe calculator can only be as honest as its inputs
Every figure behind these tools is published guidance, and each tool cites it in full. The per-pound thawing rates come from the USDA's turkey and package guidance rather than one universal formula, so a thaw shows a range and asks you to check the middle of the food rather than trusting a clock. The outage windows are the CDC's closed-door estimates, which are about how long the appliance holds cold — not a promise about what is inside it. Where guidance stops, the tool stops and tells you to look.
Two rules sit behind all of them. A freezer at 0 °F (−18 °C) makes food safe indefinitely, so a storage window is a quality window and nobody is in danger for eating something older than its best-by month. And an appliance that has been above 40 °F for long enough is a different situation entirely — that is the one place where the answer changes from "worse" to "don't". Both are set out once in the freezer safety standard.
Looking for a specific food?
The calculators here are about time and events. If you want a plain answer for one food — whether it freezes at all, how to pack it, how to bring it back — the food cards have 2,000+ of them, and the search finds any of them in a word or two. Try ricotta, avocado or cooked rice if you want to see the shape of one.