refrigerator coincidence

[darkoshi]

Two years ago, I went on a roadtrip with Qiao.

We brought a cooler with ice packs to keep food and drinks cold. I refroze the ice packs in motel room freezers overnight.




I remember the above refrigerator rather well, as the freezer compartment was so frosted up with ice that at first the flap wouldn't even open far enough to allow access to the compartment. Once I got the flap open, there was so much ice in the compartment that the freezer packs didn't fit inside.

The above photos were with the fridge unplugged and its door open to help melt the ice. But it would have taken all night to defrost it that way.
I ended up manually defrosting the freezer with warm water and a washcloth.

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Yesterday, andrewducker posted a photo of his son exploring a similarly small refrigerator (probably even smaller). Replying to a comment of mine, he posted a link to this black refrigerator. Take a look at the 2nd photo on that page which shows the fridge interior.
Then look at my photos above.

The motel room refrigerator model was an Igloo FR320I. I know that because I also took a photo of the placard listing the model #, in order to look up its defrosting instructions. The fridge at the link is an Adexa. But they look exactly the same inside.

Comments

[frith]

I use a portable heater to quickly defrost a fridge/freezer at work. Takes an hour or two, as long as the fridge/freezer is unplugged (been there, made that mistake). The floors at work are cement, not carpet. Rented hotel rooms usually come with a hair dryer, which would have worked and probably defrosted the freezer part even faster since the hot air blows harder and more directed.

[darkoshi]

Check the comments in the 2nd link in my post.
:D

That motel room had a nice non-carpeted floor. I put a towel at the bottom of the fridge while defrosting it, to catch melting water and prevent it from getting on the floor.

The room's blow dryer was attached to the wall and the cord wasn't long enough. I don't think I considered moving the fridge closer to the blow dryer; that might have worked too.

Or I could have just left it frozen up and gotten ice from elsewhere to put in the cooler in the morning. But the frozen freezer was a challenge and once I get started on something like that, it's hard to make myself give up.

I'm glad they have auto-defrost freezers now. I don't know if the one in that motel wasn't auto-defrost, or if there was something wrong with it.

[frith]

Oh my, I am so predictable! And forgetful. But it is good, I can rewatch a bunch of good movies and reread some good books and it'll be like the first time! 8^D

[darkoshi]

It's ok; I'm the same way!