Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-28
Frozen Food Cabinet
Helps Offset
Spurts in Prices
Available for Homes;
Closet Space Added
By Sliding Carrier
BY LAWRENCE CROLIUS.


With food costs rising because of
war, it won't be long before we will
have to figure out new and differ
ent ways to save money at the
markets
A logical way would seem to be
to buy in large quantities, but, I'M
fortunately, it is difficult to keep
fresh vegetables, fruits and meats
for long periods. Unlike our an
cestors and farmers, it is impossible
for us to kill COW and eat it at
leasure. Instead, we have to buy
small quantities at high prices
.-from day to day.
That familiar phase of daily life
Is due for a change with the advent
of new food locker. Looking like
an ordinary enameled dishwasher,
this new device provides a place
where a considerable quantity of
food can be placed and frozen just
like frozen foods you now buy at
the grocery store
Thus. it is profitable now to go
to market and buy large cuts of
beef, a couple of chikens, a turkey
and other foods and put them in
this locker for quick and rigid freez-
ing treatment. With temperature
of zero or less it is but a moment
before they are solid and will keep
indefinitely. You can put vegetables
and fruits in the machine and sub
ject them to the same treatment.
With your cache of meats and
other foods nicely frozen, you can
draw on them as you need them
and be sure that they are in good
state of preservation. This stunt is
performed in freezing compart-
ment Is inches in diameter and 80
inches deep, and you can imagine
the large amount of material which
can be tucked away in this polar
atmosphere. According to the
makers of the unit. it is inexpensive
to maintain food in this way. be-
cause the refrigerator machine func-
tons efficiently and consumes only
about a dollars worth of current
in a month.
A double-walled cylinder makes
up the container space and HARM
less freon refrigerant is circulated
between the walls Thus, the entire
space is surrounded with "a feet of
freezing surface which makes it
possible for food to be cooled down
within a half a degree of the tenn
perature of the refrigerant.
A handsome enameled steel jacket
surrounds the outfit with its wall of
rock-wool insulation, which is
inches thick. The cold cylinder
rests on block of fiberboard insula-
ton of considerable thickness.
Designed with an opening for
putting in food at the top, sort
of cold pocket is formed making it
impossible for valuable cold air to
spill OUT on the floor the way it
does with the ordinary refrigerator.
In fact. the cold air is so completely
trapped that the only thing the top
door does is to keep the food clean.
Are the closets in your home dark?
Few things can be more eXasper-
ating than having to search around
in blackness to select the desired
suit or dress, yet most closets are
offenders in this direction.
One closet in a million is large
enough to handle clothes stuffed
into it, anyway, hence new device
which practically doubles closet
space and also makes the vari-
Gus garments completely accessible
would seem to be of interest to
everybody.
Substantially made so it will not
sag under a load and strew clothes
on the flood, this new device is in the
shape of sliding telescope car
rier. All you have to do to install
one Of these units is to order one
from your local hardware store by
measuring the distance from the
hook moulding on the back wall to
the inside of the door casing, then
screw it in place on the underside
of the closet shelf. For best results
we are advised that you should bring
the closet shelf as far forward as
possible so the largest size carrier
can be used the full depth of the
closet.
The clothing carrier itself slides
on ball-bearing rollers with a mini
mum of effort and only light pull
on the handy handle will pull out
the entire wardrobe for your in
spection. There are eight different
sizes of these carriers and they
come in an attractive polished nick
el-plated finish.
If you would like to know the
names of the manufacturers of the
products described in this column,
send the article with a stamped,
addressed envelope to Lawrence
Crolius, So East Sixty-seventh street,
New York, N. Y.