tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930142685890514338.post5695427528443906508..comments2023-07-23T06:19:34.894-04:00Comments on Adapting in Place: The Epic Battle for my RefrigeratorRobyn M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08885081377174592304noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930142685890514338.post-80094457759841197582016-05-29T12:52:05.457-04:002016-05-29T12:52:05.457-04:00Hi, I am pondering unplugging the fridge, and thou...Hi, I am pondering unplugging the fridge, and thought i would get some google imput.<br />I like your post. I was thinking of turning my current fridge into an ice box, both the top and the bottom. Maybe having the top (freezer section ) a little cooler than the bottom section, which is mostly condiments. <br />Just wondering how you have make out?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13496850409627435458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930142685890514338.post-19038048300783276642016-05-29T12:51:11.314-04:002016-05-29T12:51:11.314-04:00Hi, I am pondering unplugging the fridge, and thou...Hi, I am pondering unplugging the fridge, and thought i would get some google imput.<br />I like your post. I was thinking of turning my current fridge into an ice box, both the top and the bottom. Maybe having the top (freezer section ) a little cooler than the bottom section, which is mostly condiments. <br />Just wondering how you have make out?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13496850409627435458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930142685890514338.post-80090392916121132792009-05-04T09:00:00.000-04:002009-05-04T09:00:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.homeopathy eczemanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930142685890514338.post-79379411838833542102009-02-17T21:22:00.000-05:002009-02-17T21:22:00.000-05:00Emily--yeah, we're not quite to adoption yet, eith...Emily--yeah, we're not quite to adoption yet, either. I think this post was a sort of "pep talk" to myself about this issue, to kind of work through why we have a fridge and if we really need one. Comes to that, that is pretty much what this whole bloody blog is for. ;-)Robyn M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08885081377174592304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930142685890514338.post-41714231704059371032009-02-17T16:10:00.000-05:002009-02-17T16:10:00.000-05:00I think I'm going to try the icebox thing any time...I think I'm going to try the icebox thing any time it's cold enough to freeze water outside. Just put a couple gallon jugs out to freeze, swap them out with the thawed ones in the fridge...<BR/><BR/>I'll think about unplugging the fridge but...I'm unsure. Our fridge uses 1 KWH/day, which doesn't seem like much. Our "cold" room is usually about 50 degrees, and I think that's not cold enough for safe storage of a lot of foods. Hmm, maybe I'll experiment with a few things like carrots and cabbages and see how they fare...though even my hard winter squash have up and died in the last week. <BR/><BR/>Still pondering. Not quite to the adoption stage on this one!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930142685890514338.post-86194120372290857742009-02-09T07:58:00.000-05:002009-02-09T07:58:00.000-05:00Yeah houses aren't built with real larders or cold...Yeah houses aren't built with real larders or cold porches in the US anymore either. We bought this house pretty early in our evolution as lifestyle-shifters, so we didn't really know what all we would ultimately want, but we did want walkable/bikable locations and we did want terribly old-fashioned. Our house was built in 1902, and many of the great features of it, we didn't understand the value of when we first moved in, like the cold porch, and the high ceilings.<BR/><BR/>Also, while its kinda hard to justify the fridge portion, the basement freezer, and even the freezer section of the kitchen fridge are both stuffed. <BR/><BR/>JediDaddy, AKA Brian MAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930142685890514338.post-51474348276584598592009-02-09T01:57:00.000-05:002009-02-09T01:57:00.000-05:00You know you are SO right! I have been trying to r...You know you are SO right! I have been trying to remember when my gran actually got her first fridge - it must have been the early 70's. (Bout the time grandad brought her her first twin-tub washing machine).<BR/><BR/>Before the arrival of this most impressive feat of engineering nana had a pantry with a marble slab - it was cold even in the hottest of summers. The marble slab kept her butter (never marg) and steralised milk quite fresh. Bread was kept in a bread bin. Even cheese stayed fresh in the pantry - wrapped in greaseproof paper.<BR/><BR/>I think the problem for me (UK) is that houses are just not built with specific larders any more and of those older properties that are around the larders have been taken out to 'enlarge the tiny kitchens.<BR/><BR/>Hummm, I have been exploring long term storage of bulk food 'in order to support a 'what if.... the electricity went down' scenario . In the house we have - I am already running out of suitable dark cold spaces to store anything long term.<BR/><BR/>But nonetheless, this is an excellent 'thought-provoking' post.NoReplyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15343264535069766618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930142685890514338.post-72268236698353925752009-02-08T13:56:00.000-05:002009-02-08T13:56:00.000-05:00That was my initial reaction, but after reading a ...That was my initial reaction, but after reading a bit about it, and given all of the adjustments in my life I've already made, it's actually becoming *hard* to justify having it at all. The only thing I keep in my fridge that actually needs to be in there, even in the summer, is liquid milk. Cheese, sour cream, and yogurt were all designed to be ways to keep milk *out* originally. The condiments? They don't need to be in there. During the winter we don't have fresh produce because it doesn't grow fresh around here; in the summer, it comes in out of the garden, CSA or Farmer's Market--no refrigeration necessary. Our eggs are farm-fresh and are shelf stable for at least a month. What else is in my fridge? Um.... tortillas? Nope, it's very hard to justify; impossible during the winter, when I could just as easily move this stuff out on my cold porch. Even just freezing a gallon of water in our deep freeze and putting it into the fridge each night to keep it cold (the old-fashioned "ice box") would be sufficient for the liquid milk.... why am I using this thing? (um, besides it being very pretty)Robyn M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08885081377174592304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930142685890514338.post-51385004354738098222009-02-08T09:40:00.000-05:002009-02-08T09:40:00.000-05:00Not HAVE a fridge?!!!!thud...(that's the sound of ...Not HAVE a fridge?!!!!<BR/><BR/>thud...<BR/><BR/>(that's the sound of me hitting the floor in a dead faint!)NoReplyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15343264535069766618noreply@blogger.com