Looking Out To Sea

I’ve just had to defrost the freezer again — just three months since the last defrost — and it’s currently humming away trying to get back down to temperature. This time it was dual-hairdryer action! We discovered the fridge compartment warm and the milk sour this morning. See the story in the previous post to learn why the fridge dies when the freezer is choked with ice.

I think the time between defrosts is so short now because the inside of the freezer, and in particular the refrigerator element, were still quite wet when I connected everything back up. In order to get everything properly dry it really needs to sit for 24 hours. But we don’t really have that luxury when there’s a freezer full of frozen food sitting on the floor wrapped only in towels.

So within the next month or so we’ll try to run the freezer down and, if necessary, have some kind of defrost party to use up random things which we can’t eat on our own.