The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-21
-Four Factors Play Vital Parts
IN Keeping Food, Scientists Find

Many people still think hat q
refrigerator is just a place to keo,
things COOL" says Gregg's Ann1ionoa
Store local G-E dealer, land thev
wonder why some refrigera+ors
cost more than others.
But scientists took two refr;-
g%erators, kept them at exac,,v +bo
same temperature, and got rad;-
cally different results. At the end
OF a week, the celery in one refri-
gerator was fresh and crisn. IN
the the it was wilted and shrivel-
led.
You can cut a steak in half
n put each piece into a different
refrigerator. Keep both r~efrigera-
o r at exactly the same tempera-
tufe' At the end of several DAYS,
one piece of meat may be discol-
ored n poorly preserved, the 9TH
Ell rlay be in excellent condition.
And yet, even though refrieera-
tors may look the same and ner-
form so differently, some peop1e
huy refrigerators without consider
ing anything but the purchase
price. They do not know that the
modern refrigerator is much more
than the Webster dictionary defi-
milton of a refrigerator-'a box or
room for keeping food or other
articles COOL Just keeping things
cool is not enough.
scientific research in the Cen
eral Electric laboratories has prov
ed that temperature of the air in
side h refrigerator is only one of
the four factors involved in food
preservation. The other three are:
humidity of the air, freshness of
the air, and circulation of air.
General Electric found out fur
Their hat the temperature and
humidity best for meats was not
good for vegetables. Each type of
food required a different set of
conditions for best preservation.
of course an ordinary family
could not afford to buy one refri-
gerator suited to meat preservation,
another to vegetables, a third suit
ed to canned goods, and a fourth
for frozen desserts. However, most
families cannot afford to be with
out one good refrigerator.
Thousands of dollars more went
into research, and as a result Gen
eral Electric has introduced for
1910 a refrigerator that is more
than a refrigerator. 1t is really
four refrigerators in one. 1t pro-
vides four different areas, each
ditions for one particular type of
food.
Meats go in the meat compart-
ment where the weight of the
meat in the compartment automa-
tically adjusts the humidity to the
proper proportion for best preser-
walton.
Vegetables go in a vegetable
crisping drawer which has a humi-
dial arrangement for maintaining
the correct humidity according to
the quantity of vegetables in the
drawer.
Frozen foods go in the super
freezer, which is also capable of
freezing $50 ice cubes per day. OF
course, residents of Wilmington
would scarcely need 48 pounds of
ice cubes in one day, but the fact
that G-E can produce them is just
an indication of the vast reserve
power of the famous G-E sealed
in-steel mechanism. Frozen des-
serts are prepared in the super
freezer.
Canned goods and other foods
are stored on the shelves between
the super-freezer and the vege-
table drawer. Stainless steel shelves
that slide on plastic supports as
sure easy, quiet operation and rust
elimination. So easy is the action,
that a shelf loaded with food can
be made OF glide forward by e
of a gentle pull on a thin piece OF