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Reminds me of Fly Away Home with the round fridge that would lift out of the counter. True story: "The refrigerator is round, rising from under the granite cou
by doughecka 6mo ago
Reminds me of Fly Away Home with the round fridge that would lift out of the counter. True story:
"The refrigerator is round, rising from under the granite countertop with the touch of the button.
“The pneumatic fridge works with air compression,” she says. “You step on the button and it pops up and the racks spin like a lazy Susan. Cold air is heavy so it stays cold.”"
https://www.thestar.com/life/home-and-garden/paula-lishman-and-bill-lishman-go-underground/article_f1961d9f-b338-580a-84fd-555be19bb053.html#:~:text=The%20refrigerator%20is,it%20stays%20cold.%E2%80%9D https://www.thestar.com/life/home-and-garden/paula-lishman-a...
- pierrec 6mo agoNow that is the coolest fridge I've ever seen. Found a video of it in action (yes, featuring the same dad joke all over the comments but that is not stopping me): https://youtu.be/RoGuvvzHY1A?t=416 https://youtu.be/RoGuvvzHY1A?t=416 That entire place is mind-bending.
- decimalenough 6mo agoMind-bending indeed, but looks pretty impractical. In an ordinary fridge, if your egg carton is a bit out of place, your door may not close properly. In this one, you're going to have liquid omelette slathered all over the place, and how do you even clean the bottom of that thing?
- b112 6mo agoWell, it's a prototype. Any production model would need to watch for fingers too, so it'd have to be gentle. Just as elevator doors won't crush a person due to sensors and such. The cleaning part is an interesting question.
- ndsipa_pomu 6mo agoWho, apart from Americans, puts eggs into the fridge?
- Lalabadie 6mo agoAny country where eggs are industrially washed before showing up in grocery stores. Their protective coating (called the bloom, I believe?) goes away when that happens, and they become susceptible to salmonella when they stay at room temperature.
- ndsipa_pomu 6mo agoWhat's the reasoning behind washing eggs to make them more susceptible to salmonella?
- MrDOS 6mo agoBecause it cleans the poop off.
- andai 6mo agoSo if an egg has poop on it, it's less likely to have salmonella?
- lostlogin 6mo agoThere is a coating on the outside of the egg which prevents that. Washing the egg removes the poo and the coating. No source provided and this may just be some myth.
- quesera 6mo agoIt's true. The bloom on the eggs protects them from whatever nastiness is on the outside. This includes salmonella, which may be present if your flock is infected in the poop on the outside of the shell (remember hens only have one egress port), plus any other sources of environmental pathogens, of which there are many. When the bloom is washed off the egg, pathogens have an easier time penetrating the shell and consuming the nutritious yummy bits inside. At room temperature, they can multiply rapidly. Refrigeration slows the rate of growth. An unwashed egg retains the barrier, and stays fresh longer without refrigeration. YMMV on household acceptance of dirty eggs on countertops, but they are cleaner than many other items within arms' reach that we are conditioned to not think about. :)
- Freak_NL 6mo agoThe idea is nice, but one thing I use a refrigerator for constantly is putting rectangular things in there. A box of cake, half of the lasagne left over in its oven dish, various containers, et cetera. Even cartons of milk and yoghurt have a square or oblong horizontal plane. Those round shelves are ideal for cilinders with a small diameter; bottles of condiment and beer, basically.
- andai 6mo agoThat's a very cool fridge. But how much difference does that make in practice? Air doesn't have much mass, right? How much energy does it actually cost to cool the air in a fridge? (vs the solid parts of the fridge, and the food) Looks like the OP's fridge uses 10-20x less power than a typical fridge, is that entirely due to the air not spilling out?
- lelandbatey 6mo agoMostly yes. Upright fridge and freezer designs trade off efficiency for convenience (rooting around in a chest fridge/freezer can be annoying). https://youtu.be/CGAhWgkKlHI https://youtu.be/CGAhWgkKlHI
- cogwheel 6mo agoDepends a lot on humidity. Condensing a fridge full of humid air releases a fair bit of heat. Also a fuller fridge will have much more thermal mass and care less. But yes, exchanging the entire air volume of a fridge every time you open it is very energy-wasteful.
- pstuart 6mo agoI was similarly reminded but couldn't recall the source. Thanks! It seems like it might be a worthy adaptation to commercial chest freezers/fridges.
- lostlogin 6mo agoWouldn’t that just push the cold air into the room when it pops out. Also, is that a big bottle of maple syrup the fridge?
- lelandbatey 6mo agoThe video down thread shows, the internal food-supports are all wire meshes with big gaps. The cold air is not squirted up and out like a syringe, it's more like the food is kept in a birdcage that's lowered and raised out of a pool of cold air.