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Could you manage without a fridge / freezer?

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Ghostlyglow · 15/05/2020 17:14

I might have to. Mine gave up last night and everything had to be thrown away. I can get one delivered, but no one will bring it into the house. Any tips on how to manage without one for a while?

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Meruem · 15/05/2020 22:06

Well mine has packed up now too. Have ordered a kind of mid size between fridge and fridge/freezer size. Have roped in DS to help lug it up the stairs when it comes. Now I just need to find someone who will be willing to come and get the broken one!

RoomR0613 · 15/05/2020 22:16

Fridges are pretty light to move.

SarahAndQuack · 15/05/2020 22:26

Well, you can.

Freezer is easy, obviously. At the moment, without a fridge you need to put milk in the darkest, coldest place you can find, and you need to buy it quite often. It's not warm outside yet, so if you can put a couple of pints in an unheated garage out of the sun, it should be ok for a day or two.

Cheese and butter will be just fine somewhere cool, for at least 7 days. At a pinch a tupperware in a garage/outdoor shed/by your back door wrapped in a towel to keep the sun off it will be ok.

Fruit and veg doesn't need a fridge.

Meat and fish you need to eat. Etc. etc.

Basically you can live without a fridge/freezer, but it's not compatible with current lockdown regulations!

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SlothsRock · 16/05/2020 01:40

Milk in bin of cold water, outside, at night. Generally water is great at keeping things cool, so wrap things in wet cloths and keep out of the sun.

Have you tried Argos for a fridge or mini fridge? Do you have a neighbour who could freeze coolblocks for you and you collect them from their doorstep?

You can plug a FF in anywhere there's a socket. On hard flooring is better in case of leaks, or stand it on some cardboard. You might find a domestic appliances person can fix your main one now.

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Ghostlyglow · 16/05/2020 13:48

Got one from AO. . They put it just inside the door, so it could be shuffled in from there. They didn't unpack it so I've got a lot of cardboard and polystyrene to get rid of, but that's fine. The next day delivery was free for NHS too!

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quarantinevibes · 16/05/2020 13:53

Can you not buy a mini fridge for now until you can get someone to bring it inside for you?

Hoggleludo · 16/05/2020 14:24

I got a chest freezer that I was able to get in the garage myself

The guys actually put it right in my garage though

Can you get a small one?

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Ghostlyglow · 24/05/2020 09:15

So I got a new one but I wondered..are fridges just not as cold as they used to be? The freezer bit is really cold , so obviously it works,but the fridge seems not really, particularly at the top. Stuff in there feels like it's more room temperature. Is this just how they are now?
Does anyone know?

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Murmurur · 24/05/2020 18:05

Use a thermometer to check. The fridge obviously needs to be cold enough to keep meat and milk from spoiling and you can Google the safe range for this.

Also Google will tell you the reasons why the freezer might be too cold while the fridge is not cold enough. I think this happened to ours as it was failing - the freezer was getting colder and colder (ice cream getting more and more ridiculously solid!) but the cold wasn't getting through enough to the fridge. But if your freezer isn't super-freezing then you might just need to turn up the fridge setting now it's summer.

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