British vs. American Refrigerators
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- In my video looking at 5 ways British and American kitchens are very different, there was one appliance that was somehow frozen out: the refrigerator. Consider this video an addendum!
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EDIT: Taller refrigerators aren't as rare in Britain as I remember. However, the smaller units, like those I grew up with, are seemingly almost unheard of in American kitchens.
We used to have small fridges in studio and one-bedroom apartments. But they have become rare as we got more prosperous.
They were for newlyweds and having them kept the price of the rent down.
Almost?
Actually, Laurence's fridge is one of the smaller types. I thought mine was small but it's as wide, but taller.
I have family with households boasting 2-3 fridges, plus a couple of chest freezers big enough for a couple of cows and gardens of produce.
Oh, we're also country folk. 🌽🐄🐖🐔👨🌾
Lord only knows what's in the deepest cravasses of these behomoths!
Those small (under counter) ones are use in the BAR in the den. Don't want to have to move too far when drinking.
Those in Britain are known in America as mini fridges, they can be in a bedroom, garage, or office, anyplace you want to keep cold drinks or snacks without having to go to the kitchen every time.
"Big American Fridges!" : shows one of the smallest refrigerators I've ever seen
that is the size our friends in Scotland have in their kitchen.
yeah same, and i'm in Norway. my parents have two of those deep Freezers too. in addition to a 170-180cm tall refrigerator and a freezer the same height
I think the only fridges I’ve ever seen that are smaller are mini fridges in hotel rooms lol
@@mmmirei My sister and her husband have one a bit smaller than that--not quite as small as a dorm fridge, but pretty darned close.
@@985476246845 Am Murican. I'd consider a 180cm tall friedge to be small. Maybe Laurence is tall.
Best part of that is that would be considered a small fridge by some American standards.
Yes, my refrigerator is at least a 1/3 larger than that one.
Seriously. The last time I saw a fridge that small was at my aunt's apartment. Thirty years ago. In Tijuana.
That is a small fridge. It is smaller than mine and people come over and say, "why did you buy such a small fridge?" I actually only had two options when I went fridge shopping in the style I wanted because only two would fit the space in my kitchen. Every other fridge was too big. And even in the style like he has, they were all still mostly too big. I bought a chest freezer because I only buy meat on sale and I buy a bunch.
Agreed, that is smaller than both my beverage refrigerator in the garage and significantly smaller than the refrigerator in my kitchen.
That is an apartment size refrigerator. Here in California, my refrigerator dispenses water and ice through the door. And I can choose crushed or whole ice. My mother lives alone and has a refrigerator larger than mine.
Just a heads up from a former waitress - you shouldn’t scoop ice with anything made of glass. It can get chipped & then you’ll have glass shards in your ice. 👍🏻
Came to comments to see this one 😂 as soon as I saw that glass I was like NOOOOO 😱
@@carlienorwell1673 server/Bartender! Lol. I did the same thing. XD
That would be obvious if you ask me but then again I like to bite glass...
@@JonatasAdoM It wouldn’t be obvious if you scooped some ice, threw it in a glass, and drank from it without looking closely.
@@bippy201 They meant the _advice_ is obvious, not the glass in the ice...
There's an old fridge in some American garages, that I'm sure is stocked with, lots of beer and some soda.
I used to keep my older "previous home" fridge in the garage... until the Florida heat killed it... I then bought a NEW fridge purposely for the garage that is designed to withstand large temperature swings... so my garage fridge is now newer than my kitchen fridge!
I have a garage fridge. 😂But during the pandemic, I was grateful to have all the space.
@@jenmatt1923 I had an old fridge in the garage that was on its last legs... in March 2020 I replaced it with a purpose-built new garage fridge (built to handle extreme temperatures) specifically for the pandemic... a true lifesaver. We Americans need all that fridge space to store our milk and eggs (two things Brits never refrigerate).
Don't forget the leftovers.
It’s not “some” of our garages…it’s literally most of our garages have an extra fridge lol. It’s secretly every dads idea to “upgrade” so they can store more drinks in the garage.
In Utah, it is completely normal (like everyone I've ever known well enough to be in their home) for a family to have one "nice fridge" in the kitchen, an old but working fridge in the basement or garage, AND a box freezer. When we finally got all three a few years ago, I truly felt like an adult.
I know right! I've never had a box freezer because there is just me and my dogs. But my garage freezer died and I feel like an adolescent again. (LOL! Ha! at my age? Nah, not really.)
Used to have a garage fridge too but died.
@@JNoMooreNumbers Yep, well we went directly out and bought the biggest capacity side by side for the garage brand new. This is a necessity for drinks, sodas, and.... beer. My son owns an HVAC business. He immediately tweaked it to keep beverages at almost, if not a bit slushy for us.
Just got my box (chest) freezer and a brand new pair of new balance sneakers and now I'm a full dad.
@@unreconstructed With meat prices going up fast, it's good to stock up on sales or unless you hunt or fish to fill it or buy part of a cow. With that gas pipeline hack, expect gas prices to rise more. Affecting the south and east coast but could affect more areas. Will affect trucking and cost of many things. Having 1 is none and 2 is 1. I got my extra freezer a few years ago. Glad I did with lockdowns, etc. Also hate grocery shopping. Sticker shock.
Deep freezers are really popular in rural areas where you might buy half a cow from the local farmer instead of a pound at a time from the super market. They're also used by hunters for storing their kill.
They are more common amongst those who have warehouse memberships too.
Yes, I've almost always lived in rural areas and we have fridge and freezing capacity to match the lifestyle. We don't raise much meat any more but for a lot of years we've done monthly grocery trips and now sometimes we aren't even making that often so the storage is warranted.
I live in an apartment and have a deep freezer.i go to the grocery store twice a month for fresh fruit and fresh veggies
I can't understand why people hunt, it's a barbaric thing to do.
lol. I had a friend growing up who's grandfather was a deer hunter. and they had a deep freeze in their garage. I opened it up one time when I was 12 yrs old, to get some hamburger meat for her grandmother and there was a whole deer head just sitting on top, staring at me. lol. it freaked me the hell out and I never went in that devil freezer again. lol.
Where I live in Texas, we have to drive 30 miles to the grocery store. So we buy all of our groceries once a month.
Where I live in Ohio, we have to drive 30 miles to go to the grocery store. So we go to the store about twice a day.
Where I live in Australia it's 70km to the nearest shop. So we buy groceries a few times a week
I’m lucky to live in a Sydney community and recreation precinct where everything is within a 900m walk….gym, tennis, basketball, parks, skating, library, cafes, shops, catholic school, and much more. We go to the shops 2-3 times a week to buy fresh produce
Where I live in Romania, we have Markets and supermarkets within 2-3 minutes of walking out of the house
I think the general distance between residential areas and grocery stores is why large fridges and deep freezers are a thing in the US. I live in Indiana; I can buy a few things in town, but the nearest bare-minimum grocery is 12 miles away and the GOOD stores are closer to 35 miles. Who wants to make that trip multiple times a week?!
I’m old. I still refer to the refrigerator as an “ice box.” When I was young, my granny still had a wooden ice box, and the ice man would deliver a large block of ice that sat in the top of the box. As it melted, you would empty the water out of a basin in the bottom section. I’m sure I read somewhere that Winston Churchill had one also.
my 100 years old house still has the ice box door and a drain hole where the melted water would go down. amazing how many people have no idea what it is.
Lots of houses in Toronto still have the little iron door for the coal chute to the basement.
As for fridges, I remember being very little (early 70s) and the house my parents rented had an old fridge with a mechanical handle, probably from the 50s. Well, when it started breaking down for good, there was a very noticeable odour of 20yo plastic, coolant, and partially cooked mildew.
The freezer section was basically a naked metal box ribbed with channels for the coolant, and grew frost like expand-o-foam.
The door on it may have broken off at some point which made the frost grow even faster.
I have an ice box in my kitchen- though I use it for baking supplies! Got it for 20 bucks at the thrift store and it magically fit into this odd spot in my over 100 year old house's unrenovated kitchen. It has a main door with a tin lined top shelf, then a slatted shelf below. Drain hole goes into a small compartment at the bottom with a separate door where I suppose you put the drain pan. Probably worth more than 20 bucks now :)
I can remember my great-grand-parent's still had an ice box all the way into the 70's. Our pop-up camper had an ice box, and many of the camp grounds around Myrtle Beach (SC) still sold block ice into the 80's. My sister's house, built in 1908, still has one of the previous many coal burning fireplaces in it. (no one has had coal delivered for many decades, but one can buy it by the 50lb bag.)
In the UK, you can get along without a fridge most of the year, it's so cold. When I lived there, I would keep items that needed to stay cold on my back porch, which was always cold.
Anybody else have their dads voice yelling to "stop letting all the cold air out"! When he was standing with the freezer open?
I think I'm too traumatized by what looks like Lawrence scooping ice with a glass! Now that you mention it though, my dad used to say stop letting all the ping pong balls out. There used to be a TV spot back then that showed ping pong balls pouring out of a refrigerator when the door was opened to give a visual of escaping cold air.
@@argentgrove classic dads😂
Absolutely! My dad would give me hell for that. Also the old "Is every light in the house on?" I always wanted to say "No, but I could turn some more on." 🤣
I hear my late step dad in my head saying don't stand there with the fridge/freezer open, turn off that damn light, and shut the damn door I'm not made of money kid!!! 😂 As a step dad I do the same to my teenage step daughter, and my nieces, and nephews when they are over at my place lol!
@@argentgrove Oh. My. God. I heard that a few times growing up as a kid. I never knew where it came from. I thought it was just a typical retro example of "dad humor".
Not only do we have ice-makers, we have ice dispensers which drop the ice into your glass without having to open the door!
We had one of those in the 70s.
We fancy up in here. 😅
And they also crush the ice if you want. And filtered water too.
Lol got it 😊
Unfortunately, that was the first part of the fridge that broke. We ended up using ice cube trays.
@2:08 Safety Tip: Never scoop ice with a glass. If there's a breakage, you may have glass splinters in your ice. In which case, you'll need to dump all the ice down either the sink or the bathtub, or risk swallowing the glass splinter and risking internal bleeding. Use either a plastic or metal scoop for your ice.
I can guarantee you there isn't a human on this planet who scoops ice cream with glass.
I usually just stick my hand in there and grab the ice
The dry humor is brilliant, regardless of topic
I think his humour is wet and juicy.
Me, a woman living with her husband and 2 cats with no kids or roommates, thinking about my chest freezer while observing how much smaller his fridge/freezer is than mine : "............................................."
I mean, yes I have a full turkey in there but c'mon I mean.... who doesn't have a spare freezer turkey?
My family situation is similar to yours! We have 3 cats, though. I think our fridge is around his size, and the freezer sits next to it. It's maybe the next one up from the smallest model.
I have a turkey in my deep freezer, lol
A spare turkey and a spare spiral sliced ham in mine, along with loads of veggies, fruit, phyllo dough, cool whip, pizzas...😂
I also have a spare turkey. 😉 The sales are just so good in November! I buy one for Thanksgiving and one to make later in the year.
In Texas, we don't do the "spare turkey" thing but more like the "spare brisket and ribs" stuff
Lawrence , do not use a glass glass to get ice out of an ice tray, if it breaks you are going to have a hard time cleaning up all that glass and picking it out of ice! This has been a public service announcement !
Couldn’t you just take out the tray and let the ice melt? Then only glass would be left
I caught that too!
@@N111X That tray isn’t always easily removable since in theory you shouldn’t need to pull it out.
Bartenders have to be taught this too. A broken glass in an ice well can cost hundreds if not thousands on a busy night. Use a metal scoop!
Oh, despite the picture and pseudonym, I know it’s you, Safety Dad🤗
This is HILARIOUS! We have a regular American sized kitchen fridge, TWO deep freezers in the garage, AND we are talking about putting another small fridge (a little smaller than the one in this video) in our garage for beverages.🤣
Boy would Laurence be shocked to see an automatic ice maker that has a dispenser on the door on the outside of the fridge along with water.
This comment is hilarious because his current house has one.
@lyraserpentine894 This reply is hilarious because Laurence didn't feature it on his new fridge in his new house. (Hilarious point #2: Look at the time stamp for my original comment Laurence didn't have his new house at the time of my original comment.)
All he's done is show that the water pressure on the door needs adjusting. Hopefully Tara took care of that.
@@Blondie42 I was noting how funny it was that you mentioned it because he DID mention it in a post-move video. I was not being fecitious. Hilarious that you took it that way. Knee-jerk reactions are all the rage online, aren't they?
@@lyraserpentine894 No, he never did, and Yes, you were trolling me
The sample fridge is VERY small by American standards.
I felt so claustrophobic looking at the freezer. Then again American side by side fridge/freezers like mine are monstrous in size and promote grocery hoarding.
It was the standard size through the 80’s. Fits quite a bit.
@@kristinesharp6286 it was also the standard size when i lived in China. But the giant fridge trend seems to be taking hold there as well, at least in kitchens that can fit them.
Lol, its huge compared to mine...11 cu ft, including a tiny integral freezer...
@@willywonka3050 Considering we just saw how going to the store may not be a very good idea under certain circumstances, hoarding some groceries is only being responsible. You need to be able to take care of your family for at least a month or two, preferably longer.
That is the smallest American fridge in a kitchen I have ever seen. I need a stepladder to clean the top of the fridge in every kitchen I've ever owned.
Its pretty average in my world.
A lot of American fridges are around 5'6-5'8. The average man is taller than that so it makes sense the fridge would look short next to him.
@@hairindiamonds you may be right as I am only 5'3".
Ours is 6 ft at least
I'm 6'8" and have never seen a fridge I couldn't see the top of easily. The downside to that is I can see the top of not only my fridge, but short friends' fridges too. Yuck!
My grandparents owned a deep freezer from at least the 1950s onward. As people who survived the Great Depression and food shortages, they would stock that freezer full of their garden's produce from the summer as well as extra meat and any frozen food that they bought on sale. They seemed to want to stock up that freezer, "just in case". They always had plenty of food on hand from the freezer whenever they invited the entire family over or had their weekly card club get together.
Yeah, but I think the freezer would not be in the kitchen. It would be elsewhere, such as perhaps the basement.
I almost screamed when you scooped the ice with the glass. And people don't usually put the deep freezer in the kitchen. They usually go in the garage or in a shed in the backyard.
A lot of us also have a second fridge in the garage in addition to the deep freeze. I personally have a deep freeze because we only get paid once a month, so I try to get all the food I need at once to avoid extra trips where I will buy things we do not need just because I am hungry . 😋
The garage fridge is also commonly known as the "beer fridge." Bonus dad points if you send your child out to the garage to fetch one for you.
My parent’s second house had an old fridge in the basement, left behind by the previous homeover, it took my dad, uncle and several extended family members to extract that thing up the stairs and out the door (which was about 1mm wider than the fridge) because it was loud and didn’t stop running so any food inside was never cold.
Garage fridge has beer for dad & pals and ice cream in the freezer for the kiddos. At least where I'm from.
Chest freezers not totally uncommon in Britain...In fact I plan to get one sometime this year... So I can stock up on ready meals...I hate front loader freezers as I always get the trays stuck and break the stupid plastic things.
I get paid twice a month, so I have a normal size fridge/freezer with a 5 cubic ft. chest freezer, and we plan head so we only have to go twice a month unless it's special occasion, or emergency. Plus living in a simi-rural area things like Walmart, Target, Aldi, etc.. are a 30+ minute drive one way for us, and with what looks to be new tax hikes coming, and rising gas prices(thanks Biden for shutting down the pipeline) driving little as possible is a plus.
You need a fridge where you don't have to open the door to get your ice.
Also Laurence that's a small fridge
If you want your fridge to last for 40 years, get as few bells and whistles as possible.
@@TWX1138 My brother's side-by-side, ice/water in the door, freezer in the bottom, extra door on one side, fridge just died and I'm pretty sure it was less than 10 years old.
@@patmcbride9853 there not as great of a build one thing is how they built it, older fridges where just pumps and a giant box that also used Freon refrigerant which causes damage to ozone but it gets colder then the R12? or 34 can't think of it right now newer stuff is cleaner but not as great in a way
my grandpa fridge still ran after 60 years but they took it out no spare parts for the thermostat so it would just over freeze the inside
@@knightwolf3511 They really should make them modular, so you can replace the compressor, or coils.
And the ozone/Freon myth is a joke.
"need"
I love how you say “big fridge” when the one you show doesn’t fill up the allotted space for the fridge.😂😉🥰. Most American teenagers have “ mini fridges” in their dorms or rooms, that are the size of the typical British fridge you showed. My spoiled brats included 😞
When we were stationed in Europe in the 70’s and 80’s (Italy, Spain and Germany) we lived “off base” and all the homes were equipped with what American’s called “Barbie and Ken” appliances. Usually all replaced by BIG American appliances when our household goods arrived. When we left Naples in 1988 our Italian landlord bought ALL our appliances. True story, the BIG Amana side by side refrigerator we had wound up in his brothers restaurant in downtown Naples. Of course we provided the transformer to convert 220 to 110. We’ve always wondered how long it lasted in that environment.
47 years ago in the winter of last year - ain’t that the truth! Hahaha
I grew up on a farm and we had one of those large deep freezers so when an animal was slaughtered, we had a place to store the meat. Cartons of ice cream were kept next to Petunia and Daisy.
Yep, ours were called Cheerio (charolais) and Raisin Bran (baldy)... 😁
Yes that comes from the old colonial frontier days when families would slaughter a animal and keep as much in storage for the harsh winters when animals were more scarce.
And Oscar Meyer the Pig.
Turkeys for us named Thanksgiving and Christmas. Helped prevent confusion on when to use :)
@@mikep8080 🙂👍
LOL, I've had an icemaker my entire life and it still startles me when it dumps in the middle of the night. Also, deep freezers or vertical freezers usually go in the garage or basement. That is where you store your deer meat, your caught fish, the portion of the pig that you bought into at the county fair and, of course, your Costco ready made freezer meals.
But where do you put your uncaught fish? btw, you're talking about a chest freezer, not a vertical or deep freezer. Chest freezer.
@@User0000000000000004 I know what I am talking about. Go put your chest in a freezer. And I store my uncaught fish in lakes, rivers and oceans.
I was on holiday in Cornwall, awoke from my jet lag, to walk into the kitchen for a bite to eat. To my amazement I could not find the refrigerator?! In the morning I discovered it was like a college size refrigerator? I found this so strange since we were staying w/his aunt & family? I’ll never forget that moment.
in Ireland scotland not in Iceland as I saw
With a little fridge like that, you better hope the zombie apocalypse is only the 24 hour kind.
PLEASE get an ice scoop. I used to work in a restaurant that had glassware (as opposed to plastic) for cold drinks. You never, EVER use a glass drinking glass to scoop the ice. If the glass chips or breaks, your ice bin now has glass in it. Your ice bin isn't that large, but ice takes time to replace if you have to throw the entire bin out.
It's also hard on your glassware.
I was thinking just grab the ice cube with your hand and put it in the glass, but then I was raised feral. But yes, I also worked in restaurants and would never go near an ice chest with glass. I think someone did break a glass once over the ice in the bar. A lot of people were really not happy with that person for a day.
@@grannyweatherwax8005
Yep, hands it is.
That made me cringe, too. We scooped with glass in my childhood (70s). After the first chipped glass, you stop that practice....hopefully!
Use a plastic scoop for ice, hands are dirty!
also worked in restaurants- am constantly telling my husband not to do that w glass. 🙄
I found this one a little odd, as growing up in the UK I had both a large fridge/Freezer and a chest freezer in the garage. However as he went into the reasons it came to stand that I grew up in the rural uk, where the store was a little more of a hassle to get too, so the size was probably larger for the same reason as the US - Less trips to the store.
So the "British" fridge is about the same size as those made to go in RVs here?
No he has it so wrong we have large fridge freezer here in Britain they may have been small back in the old days but not now and we ice dispenser.
@@becky73460 yeah, I've never seen anyone with a tiny fridge (other than uni students).
Are you kidding me? I've been seeing rvs with full size fridges too
My cousin owns a small one-bedroom flat in Cambridge and has a small fridge like the one he shows. I imagine it has a lot to do with space.
mine's a small under the counter fridge. My dad has one the same size as mine in his house. Families now tend to have tall ones. I've never seen one as wide as the one he had though other than on tv (property brothers)
Another thing about deep freezes. If you don't see one, it's probably in the basement or in the garage. You can also get standing freezers that open like a fridge and take up less floor space.
My grandparents had their deep freeze in the dryer room.
Yeah, the washer and dryer were in separate rooms. The rooms also had beds. The room with the washer was also a storeroom for canned goods, and had an incubator for small bird eggs.
I vaguely recall an episode of The Andy Griffith Show that revolves around a deep freezer. Because the show is set in a small rural town and dates from the early 1960’s, it must have been a normal sight to viewers when it first aired.
My parents got a tall deep freeze for free from a freezer/ butcher company and all we had to do was let them butcher our meat and give them half. We raised 1 to 2 beef steers a year and my dad got a deer a year so our freezer had 1/2 s beef and 1/2 venison. All butchered, wrapped, labeled and delivered every year for almost 15 years
Yes I had the same thought, friends I know who had one it was always in the garage, even a second regular style fridge in the garage if not the deep freezer style.
That's what we have, and I love it
I’m in Australia, we need big fridges and freezers because our weather makes everything spoil quickly if not refrigerated. England doesn’t need big fridges - just open the front door, problem solved.
In the winter yes. Yes our winters are cold but food left out in the summer will quickly spoil🤢
Same in the US (at least here in Texas. :)
Lol, I live in Michigan and most people keep their drinks on the porch off in the garage most of the year because it’s cold enough. My friends from the south found it so funny that we literally leave pop or beer on the porch😂
Same in the US. Cheers from Chicago
@@joseph2ne I lived in the UP when I was first married and left a bottle of wine on the front steps to chill. 30 minutes later it had exploded from the cold.
If anyone gives you crap for drinking everything iced, tea, coffee, soda, water etc tell them to live in Louisiana for summer!
In China in the desert and the southern swamps they drink hot drinks because it forces their body to sweat more. It’s a belief in Chinese medicine, that it’s healthier than cold beverages
No joke!!! From Texas here.
@@peach7469 yes it is, & the same reason the countries nearest the equator have hot spicy foods. It forces the body to sweat more, & cool you down. I prefer my ice though.
@@zeusathena26 Ill take super spicy food and a cold drink every day
Exactly! I’m in New Orleans. We would die from the heat without our ice.
british stores tend to refer to the big double doors as "american style" to differentiate from the fridge on top of freezer combo
My favourite type of american refrigerator is the top mount french door style with the icemaker in the bottom. For my money, you take that form factor and make it counter-depth and you have yourself the PERFECT fridge! I don't need door ice and water because I think water from fridges tastes bad. I just grab ice and I have an RO system under the sink. The ice is made with the RO water so I can have cold or warm which isn't possible with door water!
I like how the freezer looks like someone lives there and uses it.
---Ah the freezer section!! No matter how many times I straighten the freezer, it NEVER stays neat! The regular fridge does okay but the freezer is Chaos Central
That’s the smallest American refrigerator I’ve seen in my entire life!!
Unless Laurence is a giant! 😂
Laurence lives in a Chicago apartment... Laurence's refrigerator is a apartment sized refrigerator, not the larger ones we buy for our homes...
Unless your in an RV.
He's only 8 ft 3 inches (122cm) . So, yeah... tiny.
Your refrigerator is super tiny for America’s standards,I can’t even imagine what it looks like in the UK 😲
I delivered refrigerators for a short time when I was a teenager and I remember it was quite common to unbox the refrigerator and remove the doors in order to get it into some homes. This was around Rochester, NY but even with newer homes this needed to be done with the larger Samsung models. That was about 2003, I hate to think what it's like today since they're even larger!
I was thinking the same thing, it doesn't even reach all the way up to the bottom of the cabinet!
Having grown up in the UK, I knew loads who had the taller split fridge/freezers and chest (deep) freezers. Like I currently own both a fridge/freezer and a chest freezer.
I think they are more common than you think they are in the UK.
That is actually a small US fridge. It's the kind you usually find in RVs.
Or apartments.
It's good enough for 2-4 people. And yes, for apartment living where you're not keeping a side of beef in the freezer.
Yeah. I'm Polish-American and this would be the size of a typical Polish fridge. The top would be the freezer. Sometimes it would be on the bottom. The fridge in my house in the USA is probably 3 times the size of the one of the video, with the ice and ice water dispenser in the left door as mine is a side by side fridge. And I didnt even think mine was that fancy until I saw his 😄. I'm also guilty of having an ice box with all my frozen veg and hash browns. Months of supplies. 😆my family is plant based, no side of beef, just stuff like stir fry veg, broccoli florets, spinach, thick cut fries, home fries, hash browns, you get the gist.
@@nyrockchicxx
LOL I live alone and I have a huge fridge that everything just fits into!
Seen full sized in RVs.
Of course, you did leave out the most important appliance. The “Beer Fridge”! This is either found in the basement or in the garage, it can be anywhere from a dorm room size fridge all the way up to a full size. Depending upon how many friends show up regularly and consumption rates. I, personally, went with the vintage look and have a 1950’s Kelvinator in my garage.
And the kegarator that replaces a British fridge under the counter.
Nice!
Somehow we ended up with 3 refrigerators in our house and its really enabling my dad's costco addiction
😂😂😂😂😂😂
First video I've seen from "Lost in the Pond", I love this guy's sense of comedy.
You most certainly do not. I will no longer stand idly by while you tell your fibs!
I'm single and I have a 3-door Samsung in the kitchen and a deep freeze in the utility room. In my defense, my brother-in-law said he'd have that body out of there 6 weeks ago.
Breaking Bad or Santa Clarita Diet LOL
Had me in the first half not gonna lie
🤣😂
Eh his loss. So, whens the BBQ?
Where the hell are you suppose to put your stockpile of succotash?
Good things about having a large fridge and freezer:
1. Fewer trips to the store
2. Buying extra when there's a sale on
3. Not running out of bread when the store shelves are bare because everyone is loading up THEIR freezer with bread because there's a pandemic (or, in the South, because the weather forecast is calling for an inch of snow tomorrow, maybe)
Yes! We Southerners make a run on milk and bread when there is a mention of a snowflake!😂😂
@@dwhetsel695 I know, it's like we're gonna be snowed in for a month, lol.
Ugh jeez I have nightmares about the texas grid overwhelming again and everyone swarming the grocery store 😖
@@dwhetsel695 don't forget the eggs! French toast emergencies. Same thing happens even where it snows a lot, except anything less than 3 inches is just a normal day.
Working in the refrigerator repair industry, you wouldn't believe the fits people throw when we can't get there immediately to fix their ice makers.
They are actually so cheap, replacement costs less than most repairs.
Hilarious!!! LMAO seriously....
I visited an appliance store in England and chuckled at the "American sized" refrigerators! Yes, British fridges are small. But the one you have in your kitchen is very small by American standards. Oh, the deep freeze? You need them there, too. You have a store called "Iceland" that just sells frozen food! We don't have those here :)
I'm pretty sure the American practice of buying in bulk originated with the colonial and pioneer necessity of putting away food for winter. My parents grew up on farms and had to preserve food if they wanted to eat in winter. When my dad was little they had an ice box, which was an insulated box with a block of ice in the upper compartment. Dad said he'd sit on the porch with his siblings on ice delivery day and hope the ice man was in a good mood so they could politely ask for the ice chips in the wagon. No such thing as popsicles yet. The ice was harvested from the river in winter, and stored in the ice house year round. Had Laurence crossed the pond back then, this refrigerator video would have been much different, but no less interesting.
That could possibly be a contributing factor. But, they pretty much had to do the same thing back in England in the countryside.
It may have more to do with family/household sizes. The number of children per household is going down with younger generations, but in the past, larger families in the US were the norm. I'm the oldest of 5 kids. If you're feeding a family that size on a budget, you're going to buy in bulk because it's cheaper. Meats especially. It made more sense for my mom to go places like Sam's Club or to a butcher and buy meat by the case and then just have dad weigh it out and use the vacuum sealer to package it up into smaller portions for freezing.
Another thing to consider is population density. Most people in the US don't live within walking distance of the store. It's not uncommon to live a 30-minute or more drive from a supermarket. If you run out of something, you can't just walk down the street to get it. Since shopping requires more effort, it's far easier to stock up on something while you're there.
@@breakawayseoul Maybe, but larger families were also the norm in England as well. All of my grandparents had at least seven siblings, one was the youngest of 11, and it wasn't unusual.
@@essaboselin5252 I was thinking this. Living in both countries this has definitely been my experience.
Most people I know who have an extra freezer (not "deep freezer") either hunt (a single animal can yield fifty pounds of meat), or buy fifty pounds of meat for six months at a deep discount, or they grow vegetables and fruit and freeze them for the winter, or they're survivalists afraid society might collapse, or Mormons whose religion encourages keeping survival provisions, or people who just want to live like kings because they can.
By American standards the refrigerator shown is quite small. Apartment size. My home has a 27cuft (0.76m2) side by side refrigerator freezer in the kitchen, and in the Garage I have an 18cuft(0.5m2) upright freezer and an 18cuft(0.5m2) top freezer refrigerator. It's been a blessing during the pandemic.
yet another reason why the average American citizen uses more energy and emits more carbon dioxide than the citizens ofany other nation on earth. In Europe we tend to favour fresh food, and people will shop several times a week buying meat and vegetables for the next couple of days. The idea of storing salad for more than that is anathema to us. While there was a trend towards feeeIng in bulk in the seventies, most freezers now contain little more than ice cream, frozen peas and perhaps a few unidentified Tupperware boxes of leftovers that we froze ten years ago with the best intentions of using up but which have remained untouched ever since.
How else are you going to store the deer you bagged last fall?
@@medleyshift1325 Or the cow you bought from the butcher shop. Yes, the entire cow. The best cuts can not be found at the grocery store's meat market. Amazing how much you can save buying in bulk. Buying a few shrink wrapped steaks at a time from the grocery store's meat market is not very economical...
@@ronclark9724 100% plus it's better to know which field the cow lived in. My family only ever did half a pig because there were just 4 of us lol.
I also have a giant side-by-side in my kitchen, a “chest” deep freezer (for meat and bulk items), AND an EXTRA smaller (from Costco) refrigerator/freezer in my garage that we lovingly call our “drink fridge”!!!!
In some parts of the US, smaller, UK-style fridges are getting a bit more popular, especially in dense urban areas where folks have tiny kitchens and live alone or eat out more. I personally prefer a not-gargantuan fridge but I also still need something larger than that, since I tend to buy in bulk since it’s generally cheaper and also sometimes I end up in a low-energy state for a while and need convenient access to something I can just pop in the oven for basic sustenance.
I've never lived in the UK, but I spent eleven years in Switzerland. The refrigerator wasn't so tiny, but it was much smaller than the US models. An additional reason I think holds for this is that in Europe, people buy food several times a week. The corner grocery stores abound, and are easy to walk to. Few people try to stock up as in the US, where one might do food shopping once every week or two.
To be precise, "deep freezer" refers to the temperature. The style you show is a "chest freezer." There are also upright deep freezers that look much like a refrigerator.
Yes, I dislike it when people call a standard freezer a deep freeze. 0°F is not a deep freeze
Technically deep freezers do not auto defrost. During the defrost cycle the freezer will actually heat the inside surface to keep frost from building up. The defrost cycle can cause freeze thaw cycles and shortens the time period where the goods are kept in an appetizing state, ie freezer burn. Deep freezers don’t do this and theoretically can keep things frozen for years, depending on how often and how long they are opened. The down side to a deep freeze is frost build up. The only way to remove frost safely is to defrost, which requires emptying and turning the freezer off. So it’s best to use a deep freeze for things you don’t need to access regularly.
@@karenbennett3662 There are freezers that do, and freezers that do not, have automatic defrost. That has nothing to do with "deep freeze." "Deep freeze" is a reference to temperature. If you're using it to mean "manual defrost freezer" you're using it incorrectly.
Lawrence, that is a small refrigerator...😁
It's plenty large enough for two people though. Ours is maybe slightly larger than his and I do have a small chest freezer in the utility room but it certainly isn't a necessity. As a kid there were 6 of us and we had 2 fridges and a large chest freezer as well, but we took our own cow to the slaughterhouse each fall and used the chest freezer to hold the meat we'd get back as well as veggies we'd frozen from our garden, the rest we canned in mason jars.
It's good enough for 2-4 town people who aren't butchering their own meat.
@@nyrockchicxx True enough. I grew up on a farm and we had a large chest freezer for the garden and because every year we'd take a cow to the slaughterhouse. I still live out in the country but we no longer raise livestock, or put out much of a garden for that matter other than to have some homegrown tomatoes in the Summer. I remember as kids complaining that we had no closet space because they were filled with mason jars of everything from green beans to blackberry preserves, lol.
@@Rebel9668 Blackberry preserves... The chigger bites I got picking those delicious blackberries growing in our backyard... I recall painting the bites with my mother's finger nail polish...
@@ronclark9724 I've never had chiggers, but early on I learned that when doing farm type work it was best to wear trousers instead of shorts and long sleeve shirts even if it was hot out. I learned that lesson the hard way the first time we baled hay and I had to help get it stacked on the wagon and then stacked in the loft. My arms and legs were raw for days, lol.
I am an American who has lived in the UK for 6 years, and I still can’t stand the tiny fridges. I also want to know why British freezers are comprised of small plastic drawers that crack and get covered in ice so you can’t pull them out or fit anything in the freezer. Even buying a freezer that automatically defrosts requires concerted effort and a lot more ££. My greatest wish is to buy an American style fridge freezer combo with an ice maker, but I don’t even know if it would fit in my kitchen 😂
Also, I lived in Australia before moving to the UK, and they seem to have adopted the American fridge model despite being essentially “Britain with sunshine”, so I was quite shocked when I moved here.
As a life long Brit com fan and most all things British from the fifties through the eighties, I noticed that TV sets seem smaller in Britain and that what looks like a dish drainer can often be seen above the stove on shows such as Steptoe and Son. I enjoy and appreciate the entertaining and informative videos that you make.
I like to cook and bake in large batches that I freeze and eat over time. When summer and fall is here, I go berry picking and buying produce on sake and vacuum seal for the winter months. Plus, buying meats on sale and freezing in recipe portions also saves money.
Edit: Canadian here.
In my family, 3 households, 3 different homes, 7 people, there are 4.5 fridges (the .5 is a mini fridge) and 3 deep freezers... We live in the suburbs... Everyone living less than a mile from grocery stores... I've never thought about how absurd this was until now. Thanks for that, lol.
My grandmother had a regular fridge upstairs, a standing freezer and a small fridge in her laundry room, the one in the laundry room being for drinks only and then she had a large chest freezer and a large standing freezer in the basement. In her defense, none were super packed, they were bought when she was raising 4 children in a small town, and the relatives would bring her meat and fish from hunting and fishing trips on the regular. I know my uncle and aunt used to go on clam digs and bring me large pails and they would also buy me buckets of oysters.
I mean, it makes a difference when buying in bulk saves a LOT of money and you want all that food to stay fresh and edible weeks later.
It's not absurd. You can prepare for the Apocalypse with plenty of freezer room to get stocked up... :)
Oh my! We are one home not as many living in it as your 3 but we have 2 of the largest refrigerators for a home made,one mini refrigerator for bottle water,one chest deep freezer, one dorm mini refrigerator in my room and a 1980 real coke cola machine..Ok we are obviously observed! All full as can be too! I feel ashamed 😞
All of that sucks A LOT of electricity.
Laurence, seriously. As a North American/NHL ice hockey fan I must ask you… Have you been to a Blackhawk’s game while you’ve been a Chicago resident?
You would love it, I promise you. Especially if you attend a home game against one of the other three of the Original 6 teams from the USA (CHI Blackhawks hosting Detroit Red Wings, NYC Rangers, or my own team the Boston Bruins)
You live in one of the 5 truly great cities in the USA for being a fan of ice hockey. (Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, NYC, and Boston just for the record)
It’s a sport that’s very accessible to anybody who grew up watching soccer. And mark my words: especially in a city like Chicago you will feel almost like you’re at a UK soccer game being part of the home team’s crowd.
I like the fact you were still in your pjs and barefoot! I have actually gotten more housework done by staying in my pjs. Started out going to do just one thing. Then another. Before I knew it, it was time for hubby to come home. I took a bath and then started supper. Hubby came home and asked if I had been in my pjs all day. I told him yes, but I bathed and put clean ones on. But the house was clean, from the top to bottom! I thought that was a good trade off.
Another story to bore you with is:We built a little house on our backyard for my elderly parents. There was 12 feet of grass to mow in between the two houses. I decided to lay patio pavers down, so we had a place for chairs to sit in. And hubby eventually put a roof up. So then we decided to screen it in to keep the bugs out. But while at the lumber yard, hubby started looking at windows! Ok, so it ended up being finished as a room. We decided we needed a full size freezer. This couple had a used one for sale for $250.00. That was a good deal. But by the time he and the sellers got it here, the man only charged him $50.00! Anyway, living in an old house, we soon realized there wasn’t any place to plug it in, in the kitchen or dining room! The only place was the new room which we call the tv room. It’s been a really good one. And comes in handy when watching tv and being able to take just a few steps to get the ice cream out of it. It’s an upright with lots of space and a drawer. I buy groceries once a month and like to have plenty of room to store the meats and veggies and stuff. Yes, love my big freezer!! And throughly enjoy your videos! 👍 Oh, if there’s any spelling errors it’s the auto correct function. I know how to spell!
* Me looking at my mini-fridge * Well I guess it's also a British fridge now haha.
Your joke about the camera lying gave me a good laugh. My dad is dying in the ICU right now and those are hard to come by right now. Thank you.
Did he make it? :(
God bless you. Sorry about your dad.
Sorry you are dealing with a ill father. I am sure its hard but he is lucky are are there for him. Wishing you the best.
Prayers for you and your dad and family. :(
We do love to use any reason to have the whole family over for celebrations! Love your humor!
Lifelong American here. I can't stand people's obsession with storing massive amounts of food. It's costly, and often it's wasteful as things go bad or get freezer burnt before they are ever used up. And to everyone who says, But what about an emergency or the pandemic? We survived just fine on our normal rations, thank you very much. I shop a few times each week, and while I do freeze some things, it's never enough to need an overflow freezer, except when we're planning a party or stocking up for a surgery recovery (of which I have, unfortunately, endured several). So we do have a small freezer in the basement, but 85% of the time, it's empty and unplugged.
Not everyone has the same lifestyle as you. People have different schedules, family sizes, cooking habits, distance to grocery stores and such
@@andrewk8636 Well, obviously! Some people absolutely do need to shop differently. That's not my point, and I should have been more specific. I'm talking about people who have more food than their family could possibly consume in months, yet live five miles from a grocery store and shop every week. And then they throw out expired food all the time and, often, complain about their budget. It's so prevalent in America, and it really bothers me having spent time in a country where people are literally starving to death. People experience food insecurity in the US as well ... donate to a food bank instead of keeping so much stocked at home. That's my point.
I enjoyed the delightfully awkward semi-embrace you gave your refrigerator at the end when you toasted refrigerators.
I know. :) It looked to me like he was trying to rest his arm on top of it in some kind of "cool" pose lol
"...doesn't have freedom." I laughed out loud at that one!
I’ll love your droll humor! I’m an American and have lived in Arizona, California, and now reside in Utah. We have an ice making machine as part of our fridge and we also have a large freezer in our basement. We shop at Costco so that should explain the obvious.
That deep freezer is called a chest freezer.
We used it to store a half of a calf that we would get butchered every so often. The cheapest way to feed three boys is to have enough pasture to have milk cows and butcher a calf every so often. We would trade half the meat for the labor so the cost was....zero. That big chest freezer came in handy to keep that beef for a few months. To this day, I still avoid steak.
"I'm in my studio so there is no refrigerator in here. Yet." Such an American thing to do - a second fridge.
Where else do you keep all the extra drinks and the fruit and veggie platters for the cookout?
We had one of those little bar fridges sitting around unused. It was great to have when out big one went out after 20 years. The new one took 4 days before it arrived, and the essential stuff went in the tiny fridge.
Omg- I have a tiny fridge for drinks, another little one in my studio, a big American sized one in the kitchen- and a chest freezer on the back porch. Maybe I should re-think some things? No.
@@guygrotke8059 which is it, great? or tiny?
@@corablue5569 a 5cu.ft. chest freezer is cheap, not-too-small-nor-great, and efficient. Also a temperature regulator can switch one between freezer and refrigerator. TNG.
In Paul McCartney's 2001 documentary Wingspan, Paul mentions that before Linda moved in with him, all he had in his refrigerator was "some cheese...maybe some sour milk," but when Linda moved in, it became, as Paul said, more like "an American fridge", meaning like jam packed filled with everything possible.
That's really more the difference between a single man's fridge and that of a married one.
Don't use the word frig!!
@@jillhobson6128 ...corrected...
@@ENGLISHTAINMENT Incorrect assumption. Paul and Linda were married for decades and when Linda "left," she took nothing material to the afterlife. Paul was left lacking nothing but her.
@@JJoy-bk8yr I think you are right. I mixed up the names with the one that did divorce him and take money. I will delete my comment. Thanks.
I remember my first experience with a UK fridge! 😂 I wondered how we were going to keep food in something so tiny but after a while I got used to it. That being said, I do love my fridge with ice maker here in the US! -Nadia
I hate the ice maker. It's just something to fail. $50 water filters, and of course it failed.
I discovered your channel while in the hospital with COVID. I had to concentrate on not giggling during your videos so that I didn't lose my breath. I appreciate your take on and appreciation of American culture as one who is not natively part of it, though it sounds as if your wife is doing a good job of making a convert out of you...lol!
I thought you might like to know that in my house are 2 fridge/freezers, a large chest freezer, and a large stand-up freezer that converts to a fridge.
My parents would buy beef only once a year, a half a cow at a time. It went into the chest freezer in the basement, along with the 5-gallon tub of ice cream and the surplus vegetables from the garden.
Now that I live alone I have a smaller chest freezer that's full of Girl Scout cookies.
Nothing better than a few Thin Mints from the freezer! :)
At least you have your priorities straight. 😏
Progress has been made!
No 5 gallon tubs of ice cream?
Yep that’s old habit from the colonial frontier days when families would slaughter a animal and keep it in storage in bulk. It’s just a tradition that has carried on.
Growing up, we’ve always had a garden so we could have fresh vegetables. We also went hunting and fishing. We always had more than we could eat, so my parents always froze the extra so we had food when the weather was bad and also save money by shopping less.There was also times when seasonal fruit was available from roadside markets or supermarkets had sales or special items like Buffalo or other exotic meats. A deep freezer was perfect to store these items for when they were needed.
Um frozen veggies are no longer "fresh" 😂
@pisswobble You’d be surprised. It’s not common in big cities, but once you get outside the city centers gardens are common. For those of us who live in the smaller cities and countryside hunting is a way of life because most of us have rifles and pistols.
@@cawfeedawg while frozen is not as good as fresh, it’s still better than canned. But in the middle of winter vegetables you harvested from your own garden being frozen is the least of your concerns.
@pisswobble it depends on where you live. Here in Texas we have white tailed deer, but even then you have the animal processed and you take the best parts. The processor disposes of the rest.
@pisswobble Sort of, they’re called Wild Game Processors. They don’t handle domestic animals. They specialize in wild game.
Love, love, love that wonderful sense of humour.
When my parents got their first fridge-with-ice maker, they constantly joked with each other about the little guys throwing things at each other in there. You know, making those noises. Well, it was funny at the time🤷🏻♀️
I took a vacation to London from America some years ago. Any time I ordered a soda ( Coke ) in a restaurant I would get asked if I wanted ice in my drink. When I would answer that I hate ice in my drinks, they would get surprised - almost joyful, and start talking to me in a more friendly tone.
And I thought I was the only American who didn't like ice in my drinks.
@@katy3115
Hooda Gooboy and you are rare and strange for Americans. Drinks should be iced ... except for hot coffee and tea.
As long as the drink is already cold (like a fountain drink, etc), I don't want ice in my drink either. The only time I had a few ice cubes (like 2) is when the drink has been stored at room temperature.
@@RCSVirginia don't agree on the tea,,,everybody to their own!
@@katy3115 Do you have nervy fillings in your teeth? Hey dont answer that just joking.
Your deadpan delivery makes me laugh so hard. I really enjoy your humor; subscribed.
I grew up on a farm in Nebraska, and we had several deep freezes. We froze our harvest (instead of canning we'd vacuum pack and freeze), and butcher several animals (chickens, pigs, cattle). My dad was also a deal shopper, so he'd stock up on food when it was deeply discounted. We'd freeze it and we'd eat it all year.
Last week a can of biscuits exploded in our fridge. We were checking for holes in our bodies. Sounded like a gun going off, so I get the ice maker sound late at night
Trust those expiration dates
😂
"Poppin' Fresh?" I guess not. LOL
@@elultimo102
Unfortunately, no
I've had cans do that in date, and it scared the crap out of me while I was standing in my kitchen making coffee one morning getting ready for work, and I nearly dropped the coffee pot, and I have a small under counter stand alone ice maker in the kitchen at my work, and when I'm in the building alone sitting at my desk doing paperwork it sometimes startles me, even though I should be use to it after 16 years of working the same job lol!
There is an old story about a woman in her hot car. She had just gone shopping and heard a loud pop from a can of biscuits exploding. She thought she was shot and asked someone to call the police. The dough ended up on the back of her head and she was sure it was her brains and she had been shot in the head. It's a longer and funnier story but yes it was a can of biscuits exploding that she caused a commotion about. I wish I could remember the whole thing because it was hilarious and possibly a true story.
This guy creaks me up!🤣
My husband and I were just talking about getting a deep freezer. We shop at Costco every two weeks and we don't have children.
My family had a deep freezer when I was growing up. My mom still has a deep freezer and two refrigerators and it's just her at home.
Yep, 2, 39 cubic foot side by side refrigerators, and the biggest chest freezer you can buy. I side by side in the garage bought brand new for drinks, extra milks, and packed full on both sides. The drinks are just above slushy. The deep freeze level across the top. The inside side by side packed full both sides. I view these as an absolute necessity. I have zero desire to shop more often than every 2 weeks, period.
@@kathylouise1936 if I had an opportunity to get a 2nd fridge, it would be totally full of drinks!
@@BewitchedBeckatha We are lucky. Our youngest owns an HVAC business. He immediately tweaked it to just about slushy drinks. It is a must have in my eyes.
It should also be noted that the deep freezer is useful for families that hunt. One a deer is butchered, freezing it is the easiest way to keep it as it is used. In fact, most deep freezers will offer a ‘deer’ size when you buy it.
Deep freezers are also really useful for people who do Once a Month Cooking, or, similar things like that. We put crockpot meals into freezer bags so we can just grab one in the morning if we don’t have a meal planned. Also, for gardening. We used to have a big garden, and would freeze what we harvested.
Growing up we had 2 refrigerators, one kegerator (modified fridge with a beer tap on the side, for keeping the keg cold), and a massive deep freezer. A family of 6, with 3 teenagers and all of their friends coming in and out of the house...well, we needed it. Plus my parents were big on parties. Fun times!
I think the size is also due to the ambient room temperature in Britain mostly being lower, so you can keep more food out without getting spoilt
I think a critical part of why Americans have such large fridges is that most of us live outside of walking distance of groceries. If you have to drive 10-40 minutes to buy groceries, you don't want to have to take that trip more than once or twice a week.
Deep freezes keep the cold in better, because cold air stays down. When you open your fridge door, warm air goes in and up, cold air goes down and out.
With a deep freeze, the cold air pretty much stays where it is and vice versa.
vice versa? I don't understand the use of that phrase in that sentence. The cold air stays where it is. Where's the versa in that statement? I get the vice. Don't see the versa.
The Spanish Armada wasn't really defeated, they just found out Britain didn't have ice and served beer hot so they went home in disgust.
The deep freezer is also where the police look when a spouse has been missing for week.
Sad but true.......:(
Properly packaged, it looks like deer...
@@haroldwilkes6608
Should we be worried that you know that?🥶
😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😉
Yes true. San Diego PD looking for Maya Millete
@@jaytee2642 I'm safe, no freezer.
People put food in their deep freezers? But then, where do they put the bodies?!
Human bodies get fed to pigs for efficient destruction of the evidence... allegedly.
Or we bury them- deep.
Although automatic ice cube makers are rare and ice cube dispensers (from the door of American style fridges) even less common all fridges, other than a pure larder fridge have ice boxes. You have to empty then into the box the next day but that also means one less mechanical bit to go wrong. Even the undercounter fridges had an ice box - enough for the ice cream and Birds Eye peas and fish fingers.
In my family, chest freezer are used to store mainly maple sirup and berries. You can get frozen berries at the supermarket in winter but they are so expensive and less tasty than locally grown in season berries. I won't even explain the maple syrup.
Two things you need in the South is a deep freezer and a deep fryer
and a tin for bacon/sausage grease! lol
In New Orleans everybody has shrimp heads wrapped in newspaper in the freezer. That’s how you make shrimp stock for gumbo and other seafood dishes.
So that's why it's called the Deep South!
@@ingerfalch-jacobsen1717 🤣
@@epowell4211 U got THAT right!!!🙋🏾♀️😉😅
We have a large fridge/ freezer in the kitchen, a small college type fridge in the garage, a full size fridge/freezer in the basement along with a large freezer also in the basement. My wife pays full price for near nothing and buys bulk when it is cheap. Just have to have a generator for if the power goes out but thats rare.
What?😂 Do you RENT out the space as meat lockers?
@@kathyhanes9842 Nope, just sort of a prepper, we also have 12 shelves of supplies from freeze dried to canned food , looks like a small Walmart, when I buy deodorant, I will buy 50 at a time, same with paper towels, toilet paper and every day items like Dawn dish soap etc that I will buy by the dozen. When covid hit, I needed NOTHING but stuff that goes bad quick like milk etc. Just a habit of how I live.
I live in a rural area of California, and yes we do but in bulk a lot. We actually have 2 fridge/freezers and a deep freeze. It’s a long drive to the grocery store and I have a BIG family. Before the pandemic, when Sunday dinner was a thing, there was 20-30 of us depending on who was off work or visiting. I can’t wait to do Sunday dinners again.
My husband (and his family) lived in the UK during his formative years. When we initially married, I was stymied by the fact that he was accustomed to going to the grocery store on daily basis. Me, I was accustomed to going to grocery store once a month and eating from what was stored in pantry or refrigerator or freezer. Needless to say, 25 years later, we still have this problem. I can't keep him away from daily grocery shopping expeditions much less open freezer to take out food stockpiled for Armageddon.
There's only three people in my household, including myself, and yet we have two fridge/freezers and one large deep freezer. We buy everything in bulk and only go shopping every two weeks. Saves on money and multiple trips out, which was especially needed during the start of Covid.
must be awful eating endless frozen foods and vegetables and salad that are anything up to two weeks old.
@@spencerwilton5831 Like everyone on the planet, you have to make do with what you have or what your situation is. Me, I'm now disabled from a workplace accident, stuck on a small fixed income, and have to have my groceries delivered because I can't shop for myself in stores anymore, so I make large orders every 2-3 months because the delivery fee is expensive. Then my home health aide helps me put things in the freezer to keep, & we take it out to thaw & she helps me cook it as needed, usually making a week's worth of a recipe. I manage to end up with tasty food even if it's not fresh because I buy good meat & produce to start with & know how to season things. I am making the best of the situation I have now, and I'm grateful that with this freezing (and help from my aide) option I at least still have healthy food to eat (even if it loses some nutrients in the freezer it's better than eating chemical preservatives). Of course I love to eat fresh vegetables, fruit, meat and herbs but other than the first week or so after that big grocery order, I have to save it for when I'm out to eat with someone or am cooked a fresh meal by someone (so unfortunately I haven't had much fresh stuff in awhile because during Covid I'm only seeing my aide, but oh well) because that is the set of circumstances I have to deal with...so there's a little perspective: you do the best you can with what you have! It's not awful when there are even worse alternatives!
@@bevs7391 the majority of vegetables DO NOT lose nutrients in the freezer and are often frozen at peak freshness so they can have more vitamins and minerals than old, unfrozen produce.
Really feeling this. Our house came with a second refrigerator freezer in the basement, and we mostly divide up the food by the frequency that an item is used. But my FIL built a utility closet in the basement and we were given an entire pig (minus offal and such) so of course we got a deep freeze. Now the deep freeze has giant bags of frozen vegetables, whole poultry, Trader Joe frozen meals, and lots of sale meats that our grocery store tends to have in the middle of the week or after major holidays. We could have bare fridges but live for weeks cobbling together frozen meats and veggies. Why would we want to, you ask. Why not?
I have a fridge and two deep freezers. One deep freezer is out in the garage and contains wild game and livestock and the other deep freeze contains things like ice cream, frozen vegetables, some store bought meats, desserts, frozen dinners and whatever else wouldn’t fit into my fridge freezer