It's a Christmas Miracle!

[catmandu1999]

So here we are, family arriving, foodstuffs in various states of preparedness for the great Christmas feast, and things are getting pretty tight in the kitchen fridge. Someone just spilled pie filling in the veggie dip. It's getting ugly. Gosh, I wish I had bought a bigger fridge . . .

:smack:

"Let me put the milk and juice and a few other things out in the Keezer in the garage, dear, to help you out."



"Honey, I am so glad you spent all that money I bitched about to build that Keezer. I LOVE YOU!"

:rockin:

Merry Christmas, everyone!

 

[Brettomomyces]

We tried to do this with my kegerator out in the garage. It's huge and the freezer is almost double of the small fridge we got with the apartment. I fit 6 cornies in it. So, I was like, hey lets put everything not meat into the freezer section. Except it doesnt cycle like a regular fridge anymore and a lot of the fruit we froze melted. Then I just felt dumb. So, only the hops get to live in there now.

 

[sboyajian]

I just bought a fridge last week to build my kegerator. Got it cleaned up and the doors switched to swing the other way.

Moved it into the basement and plugged it in. Offered the same thing to my wife today and saved the day.

 

[RocketBrewer]

Let's hope she still remembers tomorrow!

 

[IslandLizard]

We tried to do this with my kegerator out in the garage. It's huge and the freezer is almost double of the small fridge we got with the apartment. I fit 6 cornies in it. So, I was like, hey lets put everything not meat into the freezer section. Except it doesnt cycle like a regular fridge anymore and a lot of the fruit we froze melted. Then I just felt dumb. So, only the hops get to live in there now.

Hops are better off frozen for long term storage. I have them in a freezer chest. Bags of them.

Could you manipulate the freezer section's temp by partially blocking the duct that feeds the fridge section? There maybe a fan in that duct too. The fridge stays on longer, getting the freezer colder and for longer.

 

[Brettomomyces]

Hops are better off frozen for long term storage. I have them in a freezer chest. Bags of them.

Could you manipulate the freezer section's temp by partially blocking the duct that feeds the fridge section? There maybe a fan in that duct too. The fridge stays on longer, getting the freezer colder and for longer.

Well, isnt that just the colder/warmer knob inside the fridge? I think this unit pumps cold air up and lets it float down. So if I turned the fridge to warmer, it would retain more cold air in the freezer and take longer to chill the fridge?

 

[IslandLizard]

Most fridges have only one evaporator, in the freezer. Then the duct/fan moves cold air into the fridge.

Do you have 2 controls for temp? Set the freezer colder may be enough as long as the fridge doesn't chill too much. Those things can get complicated.