Goodness me - we could have died (fridge)!

Idle curiosity led me to put a thermometer in the fridge - you know, to
keep it cool.

Apparently 15C is not good for storing food. Googling tells me that 5 is
the absolute max. for not getting food poisoning. And I regularly spot
stuff in the fridge that's just a few days out of date and say "it's ok,
they put that date on to cover themselves - it'll be fine".

Whoops.

 

Piffle and tosh, it's not optimum for sure, and yes some bacteria
might grow, but if food automatically went off at above 5C then the
human race probably wouldn't exist in warmer climates.

Actually it's quite possible that the growth of allergies these days
is down to our super-clean anti-bacterial approach to life.

Only you can save us Paul, go and eat something mouldy.

 

I think I'd have noticed if my cold beer was that warm.

 

Oddly enough, I just did. Blue cheese in my soup. It were luvly.

Fridge now down to 5C and my leccy bill is going to increase by around
12c per day. That's €3.60 a month. That's €43 per annum. I could have a
web site hosted for less than that!

Hell. I'll have to get a job.

 

I finished off a nice piece of Colsten Bassett Stilton last night.

Just doing my bit...

 

Well, 15 compared to 40 does feel jolly pleasant.

I think there may be one can of beer in my fridge, and that's probably
been there for months.

 

You forgot the obligatory "this post brought to you by..." bit.

 

heh.

I was just trying to run with the "ridiculously middle-class" schtick.

After all, it was bought at the Windsor Farm Shop and if that's not
ridiculously middle-class, I don't know what is.

 

Oh, I know this one.

"Champ"

 

Actually, your leccy bill might decrease.
If the fridge wasn't working at optimum then its thermostat would've kept
the motor going to try to keep the temperature down for a lot longer than
normal. Now it's working properly the motor should only kick in when it
needs to.

 

Safety Nazi.

Paul.

 

I've got a meter on it. Since 9:30 this morning, it's used 1.26 kW.
That's slightly more than it used before in 24 hours. But I assume it's
used a lot to bring the temperature of all that mouldy warm food down by
10 degrees, so I'll see what happens tomorrow.

Does anyone else's normal kitchen fridge (non-american) use that much?
Currently paying 11.25c per unit. How's that compare with the yookay?

 

Here, it's 14 and 16c/unit +VAT.

 

Genuine lol.

 

pish and tosh. That's hopelessly déclassé these days - to be truly
hopelessly middle-class, you'd have colcannon instead, though I hear
on the grapevine that Bryndzové Halu¨ky is the coming thing.

 

Are you trying to do a funny, or just being thick?

 

What's 14?

 

Usually in the UK, there're two prices... a certain amount below a threshold
and another amount above that threshold.
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the former.

 

Oh. Sometimes it's quite hard to tell.