Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-05-09
With Your
Refrigerator
How 10 Make the Most OF 1t

~ON'T keep paper or cloths
over the ice in pour refriger-
- ator. unless your only object
Is TO keep the Ice from melting.
You can't maintain low tempera-
ture In the rest OF your refriger-
ator and at the same time take
these precautions 10 keep the ice
from melting. Don't think that
you can keep food properly II you
do not have the ice compartment
filled with ice. A little ice in a
large compartment cannot possibly
keep the refrigerator cool through
out.
Don't fail TO wash your ice box
or refrigerator thoroughly once 4
week. Servants are prone 10 be
very careless in this regard.
Don't scald your refrigerator out
with boiling water. and then put
the food back in IL. You should
scald all detachable parts of the
refrigerator in the kitchen sink. al
lowing them to cool and dry thor
ouEhly putting back in the refrig-
orator. DO not pour boiling hot
water into tn refrigerator. but
wash OF the inside with hot soap
suds. rinsing of after with clean
cloth wrung out of hot water.
Don't keep anything like char
coal in your refrigerator TO. absorb
bad odors. There should never ne
any odors in the refrigerator and
IL there are there Is a good reason
for IL. Get To the root of the mat
ter and throw away the charcoal.
Even II you have the best sort ol
refrigerator and are sure of the in
sulation don't place 10 beside youI
kitchen stove or in "A sunshiny cor
ner unless there IS no place else tC
put It. The hot air may be kept
out when the refrigerator is closed
but there is much chance for sur
rounding air TO enter the refrig
orator when YOU open thefdoors lC
get aud put back food. IL the all
around the refrigerator is compa
ratiVely cool there will be practi
cally no raising of the temperature
ON this account.
The real test of the. value oI
vour refrigerator is whether i
maintains u temperature of from
forty to forty two degrees. To tel
whether IL is So place Il themO
meter within. close the doors tight
" and let remain for ten or fifteei
minutes. n the temperature rise
above forty-three then the TEN
perature is not low enough to b,
a suitable place for keeping perish
able food.
Perhaps the fault may lie witt
the way your ice-box is supplie'
with ice. The ice compartment
should be kept full: this is cheape
in the long run. Then too ii shoul,
not be covered with a newspaper
as this keeps the cool air from cir
culating about in the food com
partment. Sometimes II you hav
only a very little piece which yo'
think you must carry over unit
the next day il is a good plan Z
concerve the ice with newspaper
But not otherwise. Usually it /
best not TO keep milk. or othe
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shelf directly under the ice CON
partment is usually the coolies
location.
OF course the location of you
refrigerator has something to d
with its efficiency. You would nc
expect a refrigerator placed ne'
10 stove To be as cool as on
placed in n shaded niche on you
back porch. However il has bee
shown often enough that real
well refrigerator proves effectiN
even left in the kitchen near I'll
stove. II properly insulated II
outside air has little 10 do with II
temperature within. However Il
outside air does get in when doc
are opened.
BE sure that the doors OF yol
refrigerator close tightly and thi
there are no warped places abo'
the refrigerator that would perm
air from without to enter.