What is safe after a power outage?

Question

I went grocery shopping yesterday. So, of course we lost power last night. 🤦‍♀️ I have read the guidelines online for what to toss, but I really am trying to avoid throwing out food that might be good. I threw out the meat. The milk smelled fine, so I have kept it so far. I also have a lot of unopened shredded cheese.
We keep our fridge at 35 degrees. We didn’t open it during the outage. The power was out from 18:00-01:27.
Thoughts?

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Is your house really so hot that your fridge can't insulate itself for a few hours? I'm betting nothing actually needs to be thrown away.

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If you didn't open the fridge then pretty much everything should have been fine. I've never throw anything away until the power was out for 12+ hours. 🤷

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If you didn’t open the fridge during those hours, I would think that most of it would be fine. It takes longer than 3 hrs for food to go bad.

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I think everything should have been fine. It’s a short amount of time so I wouldn’t worry.

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I honestly wouldn't throw anything out for that short of a time. I had my power go out for 2 days and 95% of my stuff was fine, I was just careful not to open the fridge the whole time to keep the cooler air in there. And my fridge is a 15 year old piece of crap. 🤷 I'm sure you're fine.

What is safe after a power outage?

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