Refrigerator Snow

[queerbychoice]

I'm not one to insist on all the latest modern conveniences, but this is the 21st century and I do think it's high time mor my refrigerator to learn to defrost itself without my help.

I admit that for us Sacramentans who only get to see snow once or twice per decade, there was a certain mild appeal at first to having my very own artificial snow-maker installed in my kitchen. But currently my freezer door is standing wide open and my entire kitchen floor (it's a tiny kitchen) is completely covered in several inches of grainy bad-quality snow, and I don't find myself the least tiny bit entertained by it.

Comments

[curare.livejournal.com]

haha. weird.

did you know they came out with a 75 watt
refrigerator that doesn't freeze over?

[obeah.livejournal.com]

LOL! Our last apartment had one of those. The usable freezer space was literally cut in half because of all the ice growing in there. And it's not like there was so much space to begin with.

[theobscure.livejournal.com]

I love snow everywhere. I'll come over and play on your kitchen floor.

[inkstained.livejournal.com]

You know, I think all this defrosting of freezers in an American oddity, because I have never EVER seen my parents defrosting our freezer. We used to have one of those massive ones that opens up like a trunk, it looked like it should be used to store bodies in or something. Now we have one of those American doodas, where there's two doors and one is a fridge and the other is a freezer...I love that thing, it dispenses water and ice cubes and crushed ice.

-ink

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

It's not an American oddity, but it's a piece of Stone Age technology. Automatically defrosting freezers were invented before I was born and long before you were born, so nobody owns freezers that have to be manually defrosted anymore - except a few crazy cheap slumlord apartment complexes that haven't updated their technology since the 1960s.

Until I moved here, I'd never even heard of freezers that had to be manually defrosted. And when I told my parents I had one, they looked at me like I was crazy and asked me what the heck my apartment complex was doing with an antique refrigerator.

[foldingspace.livejournal.com]

Hey I own a non-auto-defrost refrigerator too! In fact, just before reading this post, I didn't even know there were such things as auto defrosting refrigerators! Look at me, I'm all about the innards of my PC but I'm so behind on refrigerative technology! Who's stone age now?