we are renovating our kitchen and looking for design advice on building a cool cupboard. We are also wanting to know if you can buy them in Australia pre made? Our current questions are, does it matter that we are about 5 foot off the ground in the part of the house where we will put the kitchen? can it be large, ie the whole walk inpantry or will that be too hard/impractical? How cool will it get? What will still need to be refrigerated? Has anyone converted an old fridge into a cool cupboard? We are in Tas so are pretty cool anyway!
cool cupboards, advice needed
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pafritze
MemberWe had a Victorian house that had what I guess was a cool cupboard in the pantry. Just a trapdoor in the floor revealing a brick lined space about a meter square nestled into the foundations. It would have kept a steady coolish temperature during summer. Perhaps it was a wine cellar...
There are must be many old technologies and practices that could be usefully re-discovered. Many old farm homesteads had cool rooms for storing meat, some of which I think had clever schemes for cooling.
Posted Wednesday 13 May 2009 @ 1:42:22 pm from IP # -
DanBarry
MemberIn Germany the kitchen shrunks ( cabinets for dishes and silverware) usually have one door that opens down and inside is a slab of marble or tile. This was for butter and cheese storage. You probably don't have easy access to marble but actually even little thin cuttings mosaiced together would work. You might even just put a bunch of thick tiles in the cupboard for a while and see if works.
Posted Thursday 28 May 2009 @ 7:50:35 pm from IP #
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