We're snowbound this morning, awaiting plows and et cetera so we can head downtown with the rest of the fools sliding around in the fresh snow. In the meantime, a new conundrum faces us, and in the absence of an owner's manual, we appeal to the common sense of our good readers.
Our freezing compartment in our 11 year-old Amana Temp Assur refrigerator isn't cold enough. Our Johnsonville sausage patties aren't rock hard like they're supposed to be. So yesterday we put all the frozen groceries outdoors in the 10 degree temperature and defrosted our frost-free fridge, hoping that might shake things up a bit.
After eight hours and just a tiny puddle of water, we plugged it in again, making sure there was no dust on the condensers and all the vents were immaculate.
Our sausage is softening again.
Perhaps it just takes a while for the fridge to catch up to the trauma of a defrost. We shall see. But as we watched the snowflakes fall, we started thinking, second guessing. Do we really have the freezer on its coldest setting? We examined the controls. It is on 7. Is that the lowest temperature? Wouldn't 7 be warmer than 1? Would the higher number be the lowest temperature? Or is 7 colder than 1? Seven degrees is warmer than one degree, whether celsius or fahrenheit.
The graphics don't help. There are two snowflakes on one side of the dial, and one snowflake on the other side of the dial. If you turn the dial in the direction of the two snowflakes, the numbers get smaller. Are two snowflakes colder than one snowflake?
Something to ponder as we watch the woods fill up with snow.
We could just eat the sausages.
