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358 CORK INSULATION
Handles and Corners.—Round corners are easier to clean than
square ones, but if you have more time than money, the more expensive
round construction may be foregone. It is worth the money,
however, to be sure that handles are heavy and close the doors easily
and tightly. No use to buy a refrigerator and let it stand open.
Always the more you invest, the more interest you draw. The
money invested in a really good, efficient refrigerator draws big in-
terest in appetizing, wholesome food, economically stored.
HOW TO BRING UP A REFRIGERATOR IN THE WAY
IT SHOULD GO.
Refrigerators must be properly fed and taken care of if you want
them to do you credit. Long life and good service from a refrigerator
are dependent on points like these:
Location.—Set your refrigerator in as cool a place as possible.
It is hard on the refrigerator's efficiency to put it for your convenience
too near the stove, or in the sun for the ice man's pleasure. Give it
a fair location—no ice box craves a place in the sun. Fill it full of
ice and allow it twenty-four hours to get the heat out of the box
before you start to cool foods.
Feed It Plenty of Ice.—It costs less in the end, and you get more
for your money, if you keep the ice chamber full. Never let it get
more than half empty. When there is only a small piece of ice, it
has more to overcome, melts more quickly and you pay more to get
back to the necessary low temperatures again.
Cleanliness.—Cold and Cleanliness are the two slogans of food
preservation. Keep dirt from getting into the box and you won't
need to work to get it out. An ounce of prevention is worth several
pounds of cure here. This means washing the ice, if necessary, before
it goes into the refrigerator, wiping off milk bottles, washing
lettuce, etc.
Have the proper kind of containers to put the food in, to save ,
space, permit proper circulation and prevent spoilage and "spillage."
There are enamel and glass containers, with and without tops, and
attractive nests of bowls to be had at varying prices to suit all purses.
The many glass bottles with screw tops that foods come in these
days make perfect and economical containers for food storage.
With these precautions there will be no need to heat up the
refrigerator by giving it hot baths. Wfipe it out with cold water
and sal soda (one tablespoon to four quarts) once a week. Monday
morning, when food and ice are low, is a good time for this, or
Friday before loading with ice and food for the week-end.
Dry with a clean cloth. Work rapidly and use a double strength
washing soda solution of cold or tepid water to pour down the
drain to remove slime. There will be little need of extreme measures,
of long brushes or the use of hot water, if foods are carefully stored.
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