So wow! Its been 4 months without the fridge!! But like all good things we needed a little help over the rough patches. The humid warm summer was not kind to some of our fridge-less foods.
Temps over 15oC are especially harsh to open soya milk and open pre-cooked/made goods. So while a pack of tofu unopened could tough out some high temps, as soon as it was open little microscopic beasties started work on covering it with a lush white coat.
So... anything still sealed was great but once opened had to be consumed within a few hours.
As this meant that for three weeks in a row we found ourselves throwing out a carton of soya milk almost daily (although rice milk lasted just fine bizarrely enough!) we decided we needed some help.
The "mini" fridge!!!
We deliberated for a while as to what to get. A teeny tiny "fun" fridge? A full sized fridge? In the end we went for a table top fridge which is roughly half the size of a regular under counter fridge.
The point was I didn;t want something so big that we started filling it with rubbish again but at the same time is we're running one you want to have the room to fit the occasional extra in (like fridge cake!!!).
Inside. Plenty of room for "milks", yogurts and spread as well as some luxury items like smoked tofu and veggie sausages!!
Inside there is plenty of room for the stuff that needs to cooler temps, with enough scope for re-arranging for extras.
It is nice not waking up to soya milk the consistency of thick cream and smelling of fish!!
The only fruit that goes in the fridge are strawberries, everything else is perfectly happy in the cool pantry/cupboard, and no salad or veg has to go in the fridge.
This is not a permanent fixture though. As soon as the ambient temperature drops to less than 15oC again the fridge will be turned off, so we can expect to have the fridge going from say late May to late September and the other 8 months of the year we will still be electric fridge free!
I don't remember having 4 months of good weather a year? Great stuff guys!
ReplyDeleteHaha.. great weather? no...humid damp weather yes ;) If it was really hot and dry one of those teracotta pot fridges would work really well, but its just blah here, too humid, although today ironically its cold lol.
ReplyDeleteIs this mini fridge a camping fridge? It certainly looks about the size for a campervan or caravan. Caravan fridges could also run on gas bottels. Ever considered one of these? They are quiet cheap to run and could be placed anywhere, even an outhouse.
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