Dreaming of my Cybertruck.

[Crissa]

My pet pieve about fridges is the properly insulated ones are expensive although foam costs virtually nothing, and that most are not top loaders. Thermally, side opening doors are so wasteful and with large glass shelves you only see and stack on the front of the shelf which pushes all the older leftover containers to the back so you can't find them and they go off before you can finish them.

A top loading fridge is much more pactical, you can see everything from the top, place stuff where there is space, and you can essentially leave it open withoit wasting energy while you decide what you want.

Yeah, drawer fridges are where it's at. But I have a small cabin, so my choice limited.

On the other hand, fridge design is getting better: Designed for how we use them, rather than how the ice box works. Freezer on bottom, more than half is drawers, alas uninsulated, but it still stops the cold from pouring out when you open the door.

Three temperature zones and only 28" deep. It's oriented towards meats more than veggies, but I'll adapt by using more bags and boxes.

-Crissa

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[JBee]

Yeah, drawer fridges are where it's at. But I have a small cabin, so my choice limited.

On the other hand, fridge design is getting better: Designed for how we use them, rather than how the ice box works. Freezer on bottom, more than half is drawers, alas uninsulated, but it still stops the cold from pouring out when you open the door.

Three temperature zones and only 28" deep. It's oriented towards meats more than veggies, but I'll adapt by using more bags and boxes.

-Crissa

Lol looks a bit like our fridge atm more sauces than food! ? Time for another 800mile shopping trip, I was going to fly up this time as I bought an ICE 4x4 as a work car for the farm I need to drive back. Need to also get another dishwasher, it's lasted 12 years with zero issues, but the main controller card is on the fritz and the pump started complaining so it's cheaper to go new.

Those plastic drawers on your fridge will help reduce convection though. Wall thickness is not that great it seems but you can fix that if you know which side the condenser is and put more insulation where its not. Thats if your climate needs it at all. Another good trick is to keep it full on the warm days especially with liquids or just water. The huge thermal mass helps keep the compressor cycling endlessly and if you switch ice bottles from the freezer from the night to the top during the day its even better. There are some yacht fridges that use thermal mass better to average out day and night but I haven't seen it on a household one yet.

Another good way to get a high efficiency top loading fridge with decent insulation is to buy a chest freezer and run it in the fridge temperature range. Some allow a high enough temperature setting from the factory, but otherwise theres plug n play thermostat kits you can buy online that plug into the power cable. You can get under 0.5kWh per day like that.

 

[Crissa]

Yeah. More thermal mass means less air the fridge needs to cool, too!

In fire weather season I freeze some gallon bottles and save them for when the power goes out, put them up top and towards the door so that it can stay cold longer.

-Crissa

 

[Qball]

I have many many reasons/justifications on why I NEED a CT, HOWEVER, I’m a big boy now and I don’t need justification for anything nor anyone!

I just WANT MY CT NOW!!!!!???

 

[Cybertruck Hawaii]

I wonder if I can order a F-150 Lighting without any paint?

 

[Cybertruck Hawaii]

I purchased the last refrigerator with a dent already in the front of the black stainless to negate the preloaded anguish of the impending event…plus it was cheaper.

? You should have requested for the SS refrigerator with a 3 mm thickness.

 

[Crissa]

? You should have requested for the SS refrigerator with a 3 mm thickness.

Man, I wish. It's not even a mm thick and has a dent in it already. I'm sure it's thinner than the stainless on anything else in the kitchen.

-Crissa

 

[Cyberman]

I wonder if I can order a F-150 Lighting without any paint?

Absolutely. It'll probably cost extra, but yeah.

 

[Quicksilver]

Man, I wish. It's not even a mm thick and has a dent in it already. I'm sure it's thinner than the stainless on anything else in the kitchen.
-Crissa

Did you check with RV dealers when shopping for refrigerators or freezers?
Back in the early 80's I decided to get out of the rat race and moved into a remote cabin on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee.
Said cabin was at the end of ten miles of bad road and had no power lines ran to it.
I found a propane/12 volt fridge out of an RV and we used it. We had propane water heater, dryer and even some propane lights. We heated with wood.
The fridge was old when I bought it but it would keep food cool but not real cold.
The new ones are bigger and more efficient but still smaller than an apartment sized unit.
They can still be powered by propane, 12 volt or 110 power.
Since your area is prone to power outages it might be something to consider when you buy a new unit since you have propane.

 

[Qball]

I wonder if I can order a F-150 Lighting without any paint?

Only after when you figure out how to order one without steallerships’ price gouging.

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