Living without a fridge. Could you live without yours?
@destry (2567)
Kirkwall, Scotland
November 3, 2015 3:55am CST
I do not have a fridge - I have lived without a fridge for a year now. And the reason is is because I do not need one. I am sure that many people will scream in horror and dismay, but we really have no use for it.
Many of the items in the fridge when we had one had no reason to be in there - things like tomatoe sauce, it keeps perfectly well in the pantry or lada.
When we have meat, we simply go to the garden and choose what we want, dispatch, skin or de feather, butcher and cook. It is not left long enough to need to be kept chilled, it is literally in the oven whilst it is still warm.
As for vegetables, most vegetables deteriorate more quickly when they are chilled! Salad stuff is picked from the garden and served. Other things are frozen or dehydrated.
Eggs should never be stored in the fridge as the cool temperature makes the shell more porous and susceptible for bacteria to enter the egg.
Could you live without your fridge? What do you keep in yours?
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@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
3 Nov 15
No I couldn't do without my fridge. I can't go and kill my dinner, it has to be bought from the store so it needs to be refrigerated.
Don't most condiments say they need to be refrigerated after opening?
What do you do about milk?
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@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
3 Nov 15
@destry I'm sure most condiments are fine, but what about mayo? I guess you don't use that either?
Do you have a freezer?
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@destry (2567)
• Kirkwall, Scotland
3 Nov 15
most condements do say that - only because the manufactures assume people have a fridge and want to cover their backsides. Tom sauce has a high sugar and salt content and this alone protects it.
Why was tomato sauce made? To preserve the tomatoes during the 17th C. . No fridges then.
As for milk, I drink black coffee so have no need for milk.
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@destry (2567)
• Kirkwall, Scotland
3 Nov 15
@katsmeow1213 Oh yes, we do use and love mayo, we just make our own when we want it. The taste is much better and has no nasty palm oils and e numbers in.
We do use a freezer yes, very handy for storing our summers harvest and llama chops! We couldn't be with out that!!
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@kataomoi (708)
• Japan
3 Nov 15
Huh, I always thought eggs had to be refrigerated.
I probably can't live without a fridge. I don't have food ready in my garden because I don't have a garden. I need a fridge to keep food in because I don't have time to go shopping everything. Fridges are also good for things like ice-cream and condiments that can't be placed in room temperature. Without my fridge, my options would probably be more limited.
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@destry (2567)
• Kirkwall, Scotland
3 Nov 15
Oh no, not eggs in the fridge - you will reduce the shelf life of them and they will carry more bacteria.
Do you keep icecream in the freezer of fridge? Won't it go all soft in the fridge?
@kataomoi (708)
• Japan
3 Nov 15
@destry It depends on what kind of ice cream it is. Some ice-cream here in Japan are covered in a soft mochi. So if you freeze it, it'll become hard. I keep those in the fridge so they stay chewy.
Where did you heard that refrigerating eggs will cause more bacteria? I've never heard of this and whenever we buy eggs, they are always in the refrigerated aisle.
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@destry (2567)
• Kirkwall, Scotland
3 Nov 15
@kataomoi eggs in the UK are sold on the shelf and not refridgerated. I keep chickens and sell eggs myself so have had to look into the safe storage and health issues of storing eggs for resale.
The biggest error people make is to keep them in the fridge door - as the constant opening of the door changes the temperature alot. If they are deep at the back of the fridge, then it's not too bad. . . but the sudden temp change is the bad thing.
@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
10 Nov 15
We have a tiny fridge. We keep our veggies in a root cellar. We need the fridge for milk and meat when we have it.
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@bookbar (1609)
• Sudbury, England
3 Nov 15
Definitely not, living in the country, I don't want to trip to the shops everyday, don't have a garden big enough to supply all the veg we get through, having a veggie husband, and we're talking REAL veggie here, not the 'trendy jump on the health kick type'. eating pseudo veggie foods, shaped/made to look/taste like a meat eater diet and don't have a cow, that I can get a squirt of milk from everyday..... I love my fridge!
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@destry (2567)
• Kirkwall, Scotland
3 Nov 15
Thank you for making me chuckle with your "pseudo veggie foods". I am a meat eater and have every respect for veggies - however I do not understand people who eat sausage shaped things that are flavoured to taste like a sausage and served next to a bacon flavoured bacon rasher that has been made of a veg protein. I just do not understand the logic. Either you like and enjoy meat - so eat meat, or you don't like it - so why eat a fake lamb chop???
Yes, I admit it - I turned my lamb chop into what looks like a sprout because I do not eat sprouts. I shaped my lamb into sprout shape and flavoured it with sprout additives, and now I can pretend to eat what I don't eat with all the satisfaction of eating what I don't eat!
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@bookbar (1609)
• Sudbury, England
3 Nov 15
@destry .................Hahha..love the sprout analogy, I love a lamb chop but unusually also love sprouts, and I'm with you on the rest... but if you're a carnivore, Never marry a vegetarian, it's pretty wearing cooking 2 different meals every day, so you slowly drift into having less work by joining them with an odd foray into a delicious roast Beef dinner or a bacon sarnie... but I still don't understand a child being born hating meat, as my hubby was, but he's lived long on his veg. he still has Ration Books for Nuts. I'll say no more about age, or his preferences
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@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
3 Nov 15
I think fridge is still one of the most electrical appliances at home and it is hard for me to live without it. Here it is very hot in summer. If I don't have a fridge, I can't store my vegetables and meats. Perhaps I have to go to the market everyday to buy fresh food. If I can survive all of these difficulties, but I can't have ice-cream at home or the iced soda water. This is painful in hot summer.
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@zebra2222 (5268)
• United States
9 Nov 15
We have a fridge but it needs to be replaced. It's not in very good condition.
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@kevin1877uk (36987)
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9 Nov 15
After my divorce some years back I didn't have one for a good year. I shopped most days just buying what I needed. It was one hot summers day, OK we don't have many but the milk I bought had gone off and I think it was then which made me go out and buy one. I only had a small one nothing big, just for milk and the odd it of food.
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@epiffanie (11325)
• Australia
3 Nov 15
You are lucky that you don't need to have a fridge. I could live without a fridge but my husband can't ..
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@cahaya1983 (11116)
• Malaysia
3 Nov 15
I don't think I could live without my fridge. We need it to store things like milk and cheese and things like that. Plus we don't have a garden like that.
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@EllaSpringtime (198)
• Israel
3 Nov 15
I am vegan so I don't have to store meat or cheese in the fridge. but I need it to keep frozen vegetables and pastes like hummus and tehina and soy milk and so on. Also I need my soft drinks to be cold.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
19 Feb 17
Our lifestyle calls for storage. We get stuff that needs storage.
@LeaPea2417 (40020)
• Toccoa, Georgia
20 Jan 16
I have to have my fridge, for dairy products and the freezer to freeze some foods.
