quote; What is all this worry about a GFCI tripping and all of a sudden the meat thaws?
My daughter's freezer GFCI tripped when they were on vacation for TWO weeks, not a few days, and when they opened the freezer it was full of decaying food. I was in a customer's garage and noticed they had an extension cord to the freezer even though there was an outlet next to it. When I asked why they had done that, they told me that the outlet had "broken" a long time before and allowed several hundred pounds of food to spoil. I told them that they must have a GFCI somewhere that tripped. After an extensive search, I found the GFCI in the bathroom underneath a decorative bench. When I reset it, the outlet worked, and they said they had never known that outlet was in the bathroom. In my own case, the lack of power alarm sounded, but it would have been completely worthless if we had not been there to attend to the problem. I stand by my original statement, that I would NEVER plug a device that NEEDS power 24/7 into a GFCI.