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Posts tagged “refrigerator”

Does Your Fridge Have a Fever? Check Its Temperature!

We received a nasty shock early last week when all our refrigerated food suddenly and mysteriously started spoiling! The culprit ended up being a busted cooling fan, but we learned a lot about fridges...

What Foods Are Always In Your Fridge?
The Fall 2009 Kitchen Cure

As the Fall Kitchen Cure progresses, we are seeing a lot of your refrigerators, freezers, and pantries. It's always a fascinating anthropological thing to peek in someone's else's fridge. We're curi...

Survey: Side-by-Side or Top-Bottom Fridge and Freezer?

Both styles are pretty common in rental apartments as well as freshly renovated kitchens. Which do you prefer? We can debate the pros and cons below....

My Chalkboard Fridge: Turn Your Fridge Into a Food Diary
Guest Post from Chichi of My Chalkboard Fridge

A while back I transformed the surface of my refrigerator into a giant chalkboard and began to record what I cooked in the kitchen and harvested from our garden. It was a handy way to plan meals and t...

Kitchen Cure Confession: Reverse Cure for the Fridge

So, how did your weekend Cure activities go? Is your fridge gleaming? Are your cupboards decluttered and neat? I wish mine were! I have been meaning to show you my own fridge, in the spirit of honesty...

Refrigerator of the Future?

In some ways it's true that the design of the refrigerator hasn't changed all that much from its inception almost 100 years ago, despite the fact that it's one of the most used (and least efficient!) ...

Arctic Air Commercial Refrigerator
Restaurant Appliances in a Home Kitchen

We can't pass up browsing at restaurant supply stores, but the giant scale usually makes those alluring 3-bay sinks and enormous mixers impossible to consider taking home. Not to mention the rewiring ...

Look! Giant Morel for Your Refrigerator

Hey, are you a fan of morels? We are! In fact, we have a whole packet of dried morels just waiting for the right tasty dish. But are you enough of a fan to put a giant morel on your refrigerator? ...

Good Question: How To Keep Veggies Crisp in the Fridge?

This question seemed like a good companion to yesterday's Good Question on a neater way to store onions and garlic. Adam has a similar problem, but it's all in his fridge. I have been having the wor...

Hot or Not? The Salad Sac

We eat salads straight through the winter, turning to cabbage, fennel, and other winter greens to satisfy our cravings. So the challenge of washing, drying, and storing a variety of greens for salad i...

Reader Tip: Organize Your Fridge with Six-Packs

Look at this great tip from reader Lisa, who found a good way to corral the condiment bottles in her fridge. Her solution is easy, free, and it even recycles. ...

Refrigerator Art: Recipes on the Fridge (Plus a Question)

When Dana asked you what's on your fridge, many of you said that there were recipes and menus stuck to your icebox. We do this too! Here's a comment and a question on keeping recipes on the fridge... ...

On Hurricanes, Refrigerators, and Wedding Ice Cream

Right now there are a lot of people without power across the United States. Are you one of them? I am. ...

Good Quote: On the Refrigerator as Work of Art

Ms. Puett sees the refrigerator as just as valid a territory for thoughtful arrangement as any other part of the house. "It's a really fun game," she said. "It makes moving through the banalities of l...

What Temperature Should You Set Your Refrigerator On?

As the days get warmer and we start running air conditioners and paying higher electric bills, it's good to remember ways to keep your kitchen energy efficient. Step one: Setting your refrigerator and...

Reader Tip: Store Greens in Recycled Salad Containers

We liked this tip from reader and Cure-taker RebeccaCT. She says that when she brings fresh greens home from the market, or when they arrive in the CSA box, she cuts off the stems and repacks them in ...

Design Friday: Fridgy - The Folding Refrigerator

As the weather warms and we start thinking about picnics in the park and camping, this Fridgy prototype from designboom's kitchen is the heart of the home competition, is an interesting idea. The d...

How To: Organize Your Fridge

With spring cleaning on our brains and the Kitchn Cure for inspiration, we're ready to take a fresh look at the contents of our refrigerator. But once all the expired condiments have been tossed and t...