How many refrigerators/freezers do you have?
1This sounds like a silly question, but my family's house and most of our relatives all have more than one refrigerator, so I'm curious to know if it's just us, or somewhat common.
We've got the main refrigerator upstairs, the beer/overflow storage refrigerator, and a standalone freezer unit.
Curious to know about everyone else's setup.
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One refrigerator/freezer I got free through the local power company's Energy Star program.
Big fridge downstairs in the kitchen, small fridge upstairs for drinks.
Two refrigerators, one in the kitchen, one in the laundry room for drinks and overflow. One chest freezer. We've always had that many, and now the kids are gone I wonder why we still need them.........but we do.
@Teripie probably still need them for the freezer archeological dig … once power is out for 4 or 5 days I think you will be amazed at how you won't need them anymore… just sayin'
@Kidsandliz Been there a few times, we live in a hurricane zone. If I know it's going to blow I fill all the freezers with bottled water. We have a well and live in the counry; no power, no water. Worked out great after Hurricanes Opal and Ivan.
@Teripie that would work presuming you had warning… just thinking of a ton of spoiled food...
@Kidsandliz We never have a ton of food. All 3 freezers are full of weird crap like freeze pops, coffee, cigarettes, and various sundries. We are weird.
@Teripie nothing wrong with being weird and my parents have always had about 5 2 gallon glass jugs for non drinkable water in emergencies. you could always flush the toilet
@Foxborn @teripie @kidsandliz My husband has a hurricane rule that works. If one is headed our way, fill the bathtub with water. We are also on a well, and it is glorious to be able to flush the toilet by putting a couple of pitchers of water from the tub into the tank. I procrastinated one hurricane and the power went off as I turned on the taps. He still does not let me forget that.
@Pamtha @Foxborn @Kidsandliz This is where it's really handy to have pool.
When I lived in my house one fridge with big top freezer. Many years ago had a separate small freezer but that resulted in too many UFO's (unidentified frozen objects). At the house I currently live in they have one fridge with a top freezer and two separate freezers outside and I have a dorm smallest size fridge in the cave in the basement where I now live that I use to protect stuff I bought as mine (like milk for my cereal, OJ, fudge sauce for ice cream - which I have effectively hidden under their stuff in the outdoor fridge, some fruit, good jelly, a couple of eggs and cheese…). Were I do have done this again I would have bought a countertop high fridge with a separate freezer as the freezer with the little fridge is useless. Keep popsicles frozen and the milk grows ice.
A stand up freezer in the garage (a lot easier to navigate than a chest freezer - being short has many disadvantages), frig in the kitchen and frig in his shop.
One. Next question?
I have 1 kitchen fridge, freezer in garage, mini fridge in office and a wine cooler.
1 fridge/freezer combo in the kitchen and a chest freezer in the basement.
We have three. One full sized in the kitchen, one full sized in the garage for "overflow", and one mini sized in the basement for beer, soda, and water.
One big stainless one In the kitchen. They really suck electricity...
@Starblind Aren't UN-frozen pee balloons more effective?
@Starblind Please elaborate on this pee balloon freezer- I must know more about it.
@Starblind
@hallmike @dashcloud Don't you have the tradition of leaving out a tray of frozen pee balloons for Reverse Santa? The idea is Reverse Santa will take the pee balloons instead of the gifts, and therefore won't breach the perimeter and spring any of the festive traps.
@hallmike @dashcloud Artist's rendering of Reverse Santa taking the frozen pee balloons and escaping free from injury.
@Starblind I was not aware of that tradition. But now I am really looking forward to peeing into a balloon.
@hallmike Huh, peeing into the balloon... that would probably save a lot of cleanup time versus how I've always done it. Plus I wouldn't have to keep rinsing off the turkey baster.
@Starblind @hallmike @dashcloud. Do not Google "Reverse Santa". My childhood is ruined, no wonder little kids scream at the sight of the red suit and white beard
@Pamtha Now that you've told me not to, I want to do it even more.
fridge/freezer in kitchen.
brand new meat freezer in the garage (now i just have to populate it with meat...anyone want to split a cow with me?)
@carl669 Maybe, as long as I don't have to do the actual physical splitting of the cow.
I have a fridge/freezer (freezer is for ice cream only according to my husband) in kitchen, 3 mini fridges (each occupied bedroom), and a fridge/freezer in garage for drinks and frozen foods. Lastly, I have an upright freezer in the shop that is no longer in use. No, @dashcloud, you are not alone with more than one.
Side-by-side in the laundry room and a regular fridge in the kitchen. :)
We have one regular old fridge/freezer, a large stand-up freezer (both in the kitchen), and then a mini fridge with an ice shelf in the basement.
We have a fridge/freezer (freezer on the bottom) in the kitchen and a fridge/freezer (freezer on the top) in the garage. My mom used to have a full-size upright freezer in the kitchen and a full-size refrigerator (all refrigerator) beside it. If I ever build a house, that's what I'll have.
I fridge/freezer in the kitchen
1 fridge in the garage
1 chest freezer
1 keg fridge for hubby's home-brewed root beer
@Pony home-brewed root beer sounds good!
@lisaviolet Everybody loves the stuff. Unfortunately, I seem to be allergic to one or more of the roots used to make it, so I can't drink it. :(
@Pony For Christmas I got what's basically an root beer liqour- tastes just like root beer, but with 80 proof behind it. It's called "Root".
@Pony - From one of my all time favorite movies -
1 Fridge/Freezer in Kitchen
1 Fridge/Freezer in Garage
1 Upright Freezer in Garage
1 small Chest Freezer in basement (filled solely with Zucchini bread)
1 Dorm Fridge in my Room for sodas/beers/etc.
2 Refrigerators
2 Freezers
One standard fridge/freezer in the dining room. Our kitchen is so small it wouldn't fit in there. I keep trying to get hubby to buy a small chest freezer for the basement, for the sole purpose of stockpiling ice cream quarts from my favorite seasonal ice cream stand. So far, he's not having it.
I have a setup that I'm sure is the best possible arrangement for space and energy efficiency. Pay attention...
I was remodeling our kitchen a few years ago, and in trying to do the fridge/sink/oven triangle thing, I kept coming up with horrible counter space results. So then I spotted an under-counter fridge at Ikea. I thought, "hmm, do we really need a huge fridge sucking up space in the kitchen when we have more than enough space in the walk-in pantry 10 feet away where all our other food is stored?" No, we don't.
So I slapped that puppy in and now we have our daily use food in the mini fridge, and all the reserves in the full sized fridge in the pantry. Plus 10sqft more counter space. Saves space and saves energy by reducing the door size that allows cold air to escape when I sit there deciding what to eat. It also encourages finishing the food that's already been opened and the amount of missing items that get lost in a huge fridge.
You can have the idea for your own kitchen. You're welcome.
Embarrassingly I never counted mine before. I have a teeny house for me and the dog, with a freezer-next-to-fridge ice-in-the-door family-style combo in the kitchen. Also a 7-foot-tall glass-door "coca cola" fridge that someone donated to me when he moved away, in the sleeping area. It's way overkill and I hate when it runs in the middle of the night but I love having dozens of drink choices to offer guests. And it has an exciting "mini mart" appeal. Oh, and a small chest freezer next to it that sometimes freezes meats and sometimes I run at a non-freezing temperature for overflow produce when I'm canning etc and need the cold space. Right and the dorm fridge out in the barn for drinks. And the larger chest freezer that's normally set to 65 or 70 degrees for lagering beers. So... Five? Gah. I'ma meh me a kill-a-watt. Do I really want to know what all this refrigeration is costing me?
My kitchen is 6'x6', the biggest fridge I can fit in there is a 9.6cf one. I have a dorm fridge in the game room for sodas, and ended up with two more dorm fridges in the screen porch, refugees from the demolition of City Hall where my friend and I worked. We keep bottled water in one, and the other is only plugged in on weekends when we have cookouts so we have someplace convenient for the meat.
Is everyone's freezer and/or refrigerator running?
@The_Baron Mine's limping. The fan in the bottom stopped working, and fridge would start to get warm when compressor(?) or motor gets too hot. Instead of doing it right (bad landlord's fridge), I plugged in a personal size fan to blow air through the bottom. Stays cold. Too cold in the back of fridge...
@mehjohnson Well... you better catch it.
@The_Baron
Bought a new refrigerator and a year later bought a new house that came with one. “New” one is in the garage for overflow. I guess if I didn’t have that extra overflow space it would make me a little nervous!
2 Refrigerators (both with a freezer) and an upright freezer.
My kitchen is 6’ x 6’, so I can only fit a 23" wide 21" deep 9cf fridge in there. I have three dorm mini fridges in the game room, one for diet drinks, one for non- diet drinks and one for snacks. I have a small chest freezer in the dining room. My main fridge is making noises that suggest the motor is dying, so I must soon start again the quest to find a fridge small enough to fit in my kitchen. If anyone sees a decent price on small fridges with a separate freezer door (as opposed to a freezer compartment inside the main fridge) please let me know.
Who found this old thread? lol
2 large refrigerator/freezers, one in kitchen, one in my basement music/game room.
1 mini refrigerator I leave at mid/upper 40’s for dark beer.
1 large chest freezer in basement utility room for home grown produce & bulk foods purchased.
1 whole-home generator to make sure it keeps going during storms.
@daveinwarsh A spammer did.
I could’ve deleted all the posts today … or I could let them stay and blame the goat because it relates to refrigerators.
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