My refrigerator

[steveneddy]

Just came home and found my refrigerator disgusting.

I want an appliance that will keep food for more than a month without going bad.

Too bad the forums don't have a smell feature.

I would post pics of some of what I found but I would get an infraction.

What's this world coming to when you can't stay gone for a month and come home to fresh food in the fridge?

[-grubby]

Yeah, refrigerators are pretty disappointing

[pp.]

There's a solution to this well known problem in Douglas Adam's novel The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Some hints:
RTFM.
Do not place open foodstuff into the fridge.
Read the fine print on the products you buy.
Do not leave perishables in the fridge for a month.

[MaxIBoy]

Just wrap stuff in tinfoil and stick it in the freezer. Course, that can make things pretty disgusting too.

[steveneddy]

You will be glad to know that the fridge is free of horrid smells and rotting flesh of dead animals.

I think Bigfoot raided my trash cans last night!

[zmjjmz]

There's a solution to this well known problem in Douglas Adam's novel The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul


Awesome book.

[ELD]

I tend to stick anything i can in freezer, keeps food good for ageees

[steveneddy]

I tend to stick anything i can in freezer, keeps food good for ageees

Yeah - but then you face freezer burn.

[smoker]

I tend to stick anything i can in freezer, keeps food good for ageees

keeps the children quiet, though they can grow up cold-hearted:)

[ELD]

Yeah - but then you face freezer burn.

say what? whats that?

[steveneddy]

say what? whats that?

When what you put in the freezer dehydrates while being frozen.

Freezer burn.


Freezer burn (alternately spelled freezerburn, sometimes called frostbite) is a condition that occurs when frozen food (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food) has been damaged by ice crystals, due to air reaching the food. It is generally induced by substandard (non-airtight) packaging.

from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freezerburn

And food will rot in the freezer, but much slower than if it were in the fridge.

[steveneddy]

Nice and clean - and no smelly stuff!

[pastalavista]

I keep only canned food in the fridge (beer is food, right?)

anything that can go bad will go bad... if you don't eat it first

[sparks0548]

I tend to stick anything i can in freezer, keeps food good for ageees

Food still rots, just rots at a slower pace.

[Tamlynmac]

steveneddy

Too bad the forums don't have a smell feature.

Did I miss something? Unless this is suggesting that occasionally the forums have certain smell? :-\"

[tsali]

Did you submit a bug report or an idea for improvement to Kenmore, Whirlpool, GE, et al?

Have you tried the refrigerated food IRC#?

What about the large appliance forums?

Perhaps you could modify the fridge to work the way you'd like?

I'm not going to post the solution lest I deprive you of the learning experience...

Lastly, there's always the friendly manual.

BTW, Kitchenaide RULES ;)

:)

[steveneddy]

With Thanksgiving coming it's time to clean it up again.

Anyone having families at your home for the holidays?

[Thelasko]

I want an appliance that will keep food for more than a month without going bad.
I'm working on a new style of refrigerator that won't actually keep the food cold. What it will do is spin around fast enough so the food's speed will approach the speed of light. Due to the laws of special relativity, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation) a month for you will only seem like a few seconds for your food.

You could put a hot pizza in your fridge, go away for a month, and when you come back you will have a hot pizza exactly the same as when you left (minus inertial effects (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_force)).

I've run into a few roadblocks, but hope to have it completed before Duke Nukem Forever is released.

[vkbl111]

Well you could do like I do whenever I'm back in Ukraine, where I do not have the luxury of a car. So I am limited to the amount of food I am able to take home :D so your food wont rot if you eat it all within one or two day and just go and buy 2 days worth of food again :D. I guess even in the States that why my fridge is always empty, just enough for like 2 days.

[MikeTheC]

The problem is you didn't remember to install a time barrier -- a so-called "chrono dam" -- system prior to your departure. Had you done that, you could have kept the food viable more-or-less indefinitely, provided you could afford the electric bill.

Regrettably, most of the required components are only available via mail-order from off-world suppliers, and let me tell you, if you think sending a letter internationally takes forever, try sending something via I.G.P.S.

But anyhow...