I grew up in the north and we weren’t that wealthy when I was a kid.
As soon as it was cold out, we had an empty old freezer outside by our back porch. Mom and dad filled it with frozen food because the outside was cold, the inside was cold and no need to run any refrigeration. Dad just put a padlock on it with a giant latch to keep dogs or animals from opening it. I don’t think the old thing worked at all, they just used it as a giant ice box. Inside, mom just used a small refrigerator for a few food items.
Then in the springtime, mom would regulate the food to use up as much as possible while keep a small supply to move indoors to a medium sized freezer that she turned on for the summer months.
YSK: most tiny refrigerators are super wastefull and can often cost more energy then a fullsized one while not even keeping the food consumption safe.
Obv i dont know what types of refrigerator your mom had access too but for everyone else just because its smaller doesn’t mean it costs less.
Technology connections has a video on thia i believe.
This is like … ??? … 40 freaking years ago … (damn I’m old)
Since then, once us boys got old enough, we started making money for the family and actually building businesses and companies. We got it to the point where we supplied mom and dad with two full sized large freezers we kept running and filled year round.
Good job! That’s something to be proud of
I’ve seen the same video, as long as it has a heat pump then its basically as efficient as we can get it. It’s those small drink coolers and portable freezers that can be run of the cigarette lighter in your car that uses the inefficient Peltier module
I just wanted to add, that the heat pump effectiveness is true but a big part of the loss on tiny fridges is the insulation. Many manufacturers cheap out on that front for mini-fridges. You run at a greater energy consumption to compensate for the lack of proper insulation.
Get a good, well insulated mini-frige (using a proper compressor/heat pump) and you’re all set. Buy once, cry once, and do your homework folks!
Love Alec, he makes impeccable videos
Heat pump.
I know it’s a joke and all, but this really does a disservice to native Inuit / Inuktitut technology.
An igloo can have a fire inside and be very comfortable.
But I don’t want to be too strict with this comic, since it also misrepresents how cooling technology works in a fridge, so equality, I guess.
100%, the igloo is a masterpiece
I used to have the same conversation with my mom over and over about refrigerators creating heat. She would set ice out in a bowl in the summer, from the indoor freezer, and I would explain to her that the machine creates more heat than the ice is cooling while it runs and that it is always running when you’re putting things in freeze them and taking them out.
The fridge takes power and it’s using power to move heat from the inside to the outside of it, and it’s not 100% efficient so it radiates even more heat.
For decades we had this argument. Some people just don’t understand basic simple concepts.
To be real, the fact that refrigeration only moves heat is a rather weird concept, and you generally don’t notice the heat from a fridge under normal operation.
If she had the compressor running continuously, she might noticed the kitchen being warmer than other rooms but probably would have almost certainly assumed something else was the cause.
