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Am I the crazy one?
Drez
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New roommate. Doesn't really cook, and suddenly my freezer (which I also use for some things even though I personally prefer non-frozen/fresh food) is literally jam packed with frozen stuff. Which is fine, I'm not here to judge anyone, but a secondary effect of this is that food is EVERYWHERE in the freezer like with no space at all between items including on top of the ice created by the ice maker in my freezer. I find this unsanitary. I use that ice in drinks and for other things. I asked my new roommate about it and told him that have to throw away the ice and that the freezer can't look like this again - he agreed and apologized but he also said that "in some freezers, that's not meant for use in food/drinks, it's there for keeping food cold" (or something along those lines). He basically had TV dinners shoved on top of the ice tray.
Is that...at thing? Am I the one that finds that crazy? I have never heard that before, people shoving food into or on top of the tray that collects the ice from the ice maker and that people don't use the ice in food/drinks?
This was actually the exact issue that triggered the end of my relationship with the crazy previous roommate of ~2 years ago. Of course, it wasn't that one thing, it was a long string of things and that was the straw that broke the camel's back. The primary issue with my old roommate was his attempt to gaslight me. I come out of my room one day to get ice for a drink and I find a mini wine bottle shoved into the middle of the ice in the ice tray. And my roommate was not a clean person, with all the implications that carried with me finding his wine bottle in the ice tray. He accused me of "staging" him doing that, of me planting the wine bottle in the middle of the ice tray, which was really the incendiary thing that led to our relationship permanently dissolving overnight.
Anyway, someone please help me understand this trend because it seems bonkers to me.
Is that...at thing? Am I the one that finds that crazy? I have never heard that before, people shoving food into or on top of the tray that collects the ice from the ice maker and that people don't use the ice in food/drinks?
This was actually the exact issue that triggered the end of my relationship with the crazy previous roommate of ~2 years ago. Of course, it wasn't that one thing, it was a long string of things and that was the straw that broke the camel's back. The primary issue with my old roommate was his attempt to gaslight me. I come out of my room one day to get ice for a drink and I find a mini wine bottle shoved into the middle of the ice in the ice tray. And my roommate was not a clean person, with all the implications that carried with me finding his wine bottle in the ice tray. He accused me of "staging" him doing that, of me planting the wine bottle in the middle of the ice tray, which was really the incendiary thing that led to our relationship permanently dissolving overnight.
Anyway, someone please help me understand this trend because it seems bonkers to me.
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just explaining that you do, in fact, use the ice tray should clear it up, though.
edit: if it doesn't, you could get an additional mini-freezer or something?
Wish I could, but the idea that this 2-3 pounds of ice is supposed to contribute to keeping the contents of the freezer cool (when the freezer made the ice in the first place) is kind of breaking my mind right now.
I did that and I feel like we’re okay, I just felt weird. In large part because of what see317 just said. I don’t understand the logic.
One of the things I learned with living with roommates is there's just some hills not worth dying on, and it seems like agreeing on the germ levels in your ice is not worth it at all. Unless you are just using a ton of Ice every day, a silicon tray easily covers your ice needs.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
And yeah he wasn’t trying to antagonize me which is great. He’s seems bad at organization though with stuff literally randomly crammed everywhere I actually cleared out a lot of space before he moved in specifically so he wouldn’t just cram things in haphazardly but, well, there you go. He arbitrarily moved some of my nicely organized items In the freezer to facilitate some of his cramming which is a pet peeve of mine.
Yeah that’s what I figure.
Thanks all for the perspectives. It helps.
Water has a high heat capacity and closing an insulated container with a bunch of ice inside along a food/drink item will work to keep the item cold, hence the icebox, but modern powered refrigerators and freezers aren't iceboxes. They use heat pumps to chill their contents. Theoretically the ice would slow spoilage a bit if your power went out and the heat pump stopped functioning, but that's about the only time when it would matter.
Thanks.
What kind of roommate is he, jeez
There's a germ of truth to this, in that refrigerators/freezers work more efficiently when they have actual mass in them, because air is actually really hard to cool down (it's a pretty effective insulator.) So you don't want to run a refrigerator or freezer completely empty - when I got my chest freezer a few weeks back, it had a hard time holding a chill when I got it started, but after a shopping trip and moving some things from the kitchen freezer to the chest, it's now maintaining a solid chill with little effort.
That said, all this means is that you should keep some mass in your chilling device (and yes, ice cube trays work in a pinch) to help it run efficiently.