Cool

We took possession of our new fridge freezer on Saturday. It's an absolutely huge, grey lump that takes up considerable space in our kitchen, but is also has the massive advantages of providing large amounts of storage space and being much more efficient than our existing fridges. Basically, it's a massive upgrade.

The consequence of that is that we've now reverted to a primitive single-fridge existence - everything from the existing fridges has been moved to the new fridge, one of those fridges has been taken away for recycling, and the other has been switched off. At some point we'll probably have it removed, and a dishwasher installed in its place, but that's a decision for 2020.

We're not currently sure what we're going to do about freezers - I moved everything from our existing freezers into the big one, but that took up all of the available space. Part of me wants to consolidate down to the single unit, and use the space freed up for something else instead (not sure what). On the other hand, I can see significant advantages in retaining the second unit for the extra storage that gives us. So we'll need to think on this. (In the immediate term, we've switched it off and will allow it to defrost before giving it a really good clean. And then... who knows?)

Of course, with any new device there's a period of getting used to it. In the case of a fridge freezer, that mostly amounts to finding the best way to use the space, so that things that are used together are kept together, the most-used items are kept easily accessible, and so on. But I'm sure we'll figure that out.

In the meantime, though... it's pretty nice.

#45: "A Legacy of Spies", by John Le Carré (somehow it got missed at the time)
#57: "The Cerulean Storm", by Troy Denning