Teams Location: Rockport, Texas
It all started with wanting to have a bit of fresh water
available if the systems in the Castle were disrupted for some reason. So a couple of two liter soda bottles have
been kept in the refrigerator since full timing started.
Then an article on RV refrigerators brought up an
important point. The gas adsorption
systems in an RV can get very cold, but the system does not have a lot of BTU
per hour to get things cold quickly.
Additionally hot weather and opening the door letting the cold air fall
out often creates a situation the refrigerator cannot recover from quickly. The
help offered in the article was to keep the refrigerator and freezer fairly
full at all times.
Well that will be easy was my thought. More empty two liter
soda bottles were filled with water and placed in the refrigerator and freezer.
The refrigerator of the Castle is about four cubic feet and the freezer is
about two cubic feet. Most of the time, only
about a third of the space is used. That
means eight to ten two liter bottles stored in the unit.
The trouble with this is the bottles have to be laid down
on their sides. When traveling it has
been a bother to find ways to keep them from rolling around and banging things.
The unit does not have trouble keeping up with the cooling with that latent
cold sink in the inside.
Finally yesterday the mind in my head that is not used
often turned on for a few moments and it did not even hurt! The bottle the
morning juice comes in is more box like and would not roll around.
Today the juice was transferred to a two liter soda
bottle and the water transferred to a juice bottle. The juice bottle is only 1.9 liters in size
but the shape will store much better and compactly than the round soda
bottles. Hopefully this will help quell
the moving around of the water bottles during travel.
Solving troubles is another great way of trying to have
tooooo much fun. TheOFM.
Very good idea, Barney. I am going to have to pick up a couple of those bottles and put them to work in my refrigerator.
ReplyDeleteThank you Jimbo.
DeleteHaven't bought juice in so long. ut I like the idea of those square bottles for storage. Will have to start drinking juice again. I had put some small plastic rectangular baskets in the fridge to hold the soda bottles of water. I like the idea of square bottles to store other things too. Thank You!!!
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I noticed that my icecream seems softer from the RV's freezer than from my home refrigerator's freezer. I put a thermometer in it and it was zero in the RV freezer, the same with the house freezer, so why is the icecream harder from the house than from the RV? I hate unsolved questions (grin).
ReplyDeleteYup.. squares fit in spaces better than rounds! I even bought square containers for canisters in the cupboards to take up less space.
ReplyDeleteI saw a hint once for rolling bottles in the fridge--- use a heavy duty folder clamp (those black ones with the silver hoops to squeeze) from an office supply store. Clamp it to the appropriate wire shelf in the fridge and you can keep the bottles from rolling around. Neato!
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(Our Blog) RVing: Small House... BIG Backyard
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Just alternate round bottle, square bottle, and so forth. The round ones may roll a bit but not much.
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