fridge — Food

~terry Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (09:05) seed

What kind of fridge do you have and what's in it? How often do you defrost/clean it?

~autumn Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (19:30) #1

Avocado, circa 1971. Lots of weird stuff that my folks puzzle over when they babysit! I cleaned it when we moved in in 1989.

~MarciaH Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (19:44) #2

Mine is a 1990 Whirlpool side-by-side huge-cu-ft (for 2 people!) It self-defrosts and gets the mildew cleaned off the doors when I cannot stand it any longer and the gaskets get bleached about the same - once a month?! The inside does not get too bad unless there is something left uneaten too long in the reefer side...then I clean the whole mess out. Change the baking soda about the same as when I remove the mildew and bleach the door gaskets. What kind to you have, Terry, and how often do you clean it out?

~riette Wed, Oct 27, 1999 (02:53) #3

COOL fridge! I don't think I've ever cleaned a fridge in my whole life. It's just not the kind of thing that would ever cross my mind. I think men are far more tidy in the kitchen than women are.

~terry Wed, Oct 27, 1999 (05:56) #4

I have four, two in Austin and two out in Cedar Creek, well, six if you count the two small room fridges. I just got a side by side with a cool icemaker in the left freezer door (crushed, cubed or cold water) with a water filter. The other side has a compartment for milk. But it's not for two, it's for seven folks! I have a less exotic side by side at Cedar Creek, Helen put a big uncovered turkey in it last night. Before that she had a huge water melon in there. The Austin fridge is a Sears. More later . . .

~MarciaH Wed, Oct 27, 1999 (16:00) #5

OK, we also have a small one which runs off the car battery and will keep food cold as long as the car is running - great for long trips. Mine has through-the-door ice and chilled water, but no crushed ice. Ours is packed all the time - as soon as I find a space in it, someone goes out and buys stuff to put in there lest we starve...( something which is highly unlikely!) My last fridge was a Sears and it is still running somewhere in Hilo under new ownership - it must be over 20 years old and never had anything go wrong with it.

~autumn Wed, Oct 27, 1999 (22:23) #6

Mildew? Bleaching gaskets? Reefer side?? I gotta get me one of those! I also have a deep freeze, but I won't tell you about it since this topic is just for fridges. :-)

~MarciaH Thu, Oct 28, 1999 (01:11) #7

Reefer is what the refrigerated containers on container ships are called - and they get called the same things when transfered to trucks for overland hauling. No madness nor forbidden weed involved at all, sorry to say ( or happy as the case may be) I have an upright freezer also but it is non-functioning and full of bags of fertilizer (don't ask!)

~riette Thu, Oct 28, 1999 (05:19) #8

Terry, why does a person with your kind of eating habits need such elaborate fridges??? Or do you eat your oat wheat sticks with mineral water dip cold?

~terry Thu, Oct 28, 1999 (08:46) #9

Simple answer. Lotsa roomies. And no to the second question. I have a whole network of fridges, each with their own ip addresses and webservers.

~aschuth Thu, Oct 28, 1999 (12:29) #10

What OS run do they on, and do they 10 or 100 Mbps?

~riette Thu, Oct 28, 1999 (12:49) #11

Terry's fridge harem! ha-ha! What a dream come true THAT would be for me!

~terry Thu, Oct 28, 1999 (13:56) #12

They run on freon 2.1.

~MarciaH Thu, Oct 28, 1999 (14:36) #13

Isn't Freon 2.1 about to be rendered obsolete and replaced by ozone.friendly 3.0?

~riette Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (10:33) #14

You get ozone friendly FRIDGES?

~terry Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (13:15) #15

But of course.

~MarciaH Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (14:16) #16

..and car, as well.

~terry Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (19:46) #17

How did your fidge day go, Marcia?

~MarciaH Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (23:50) #18

Not too bad... But, it is telling me to clean the green furry stuff off the front and the black stuff off the gaskets again...*sigh* How was yours? Yours is 6 times more intensive than mine ever is...with all sorts of Raiders of the Lost Pork in there...!

~riette Sat, Oct 30, 1999 (01:06) #19

HA-HA!! Your fridge sounds so perfect though, Marcia. With all that fur it becomes not only a source of ingestible comfort, but when it runs empty, you can hug it!

~terry Sat, Oct 30, 1999 (04:23) #20

I only made one trip to my main fridge at Quail Creek, but it was a good one. The newness is still in it. The icemaker was full. The food was a little cold so I cranked down the temperature guage. It's so big and clean and white. I love the sucking sound it makes when you open the door.

~riette Sat, Oct 30, 1999 (12:40) #21

Most men like that.

~MarciaH Sat, Oct 30, 1999 (14:45) #22

*laugh* Love hugging big furry things...empty or full, actually!

~terry Sun, Oct 31, 1999 (10:12) #23

I went to my cottage outdoor fridge for 3 near beers yesterday.

~riette Sun, Oct 31, 1999 (12:22) #24

WOW! Strawberry flavoured?

~terry Sun, Oct 31, 1999 (12:53) #25

Nope, Old Milwaukee. My favorite brand.

~MarciaH Sun, Oct 31, 1999 (16:08) #26

I had you figured for draft Michelob...the only stuff I can get down.

~terry Sun, Oct 31, 1999 (16:21) #27

I like draft Michelob. Guiness is my favorite when I'm in the mood.

~MarciaH Sun, Oct 31, 1999 (16:37) #28

Needs to be cold weather for Guiness... Happy to hear about the Draft Michelob- they had it in kegs at Penn State and it was soo incredibly good...or perhaps it was the guy I was with - he was incredible, as well...!