Fridge or Freezer
Submitted: Friday, Nov 06, 2009 at 22:33
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Hi All
This may have been done to death previously but we're heading off around the block again next year and we have a 50l Waeco plus the small fridge in the van. Previous trips we have run the Waeco as a freezer which is a very heavy draw on
battery power (no solar and we use a generator). Has anybody done the big trip using their second fridge as a fridge only.
We'd be interested to hear the comments.
Thanks
John & Helen
Reply By: Shaker - Friday, Nov 06, 2009 at 22:49
Friday, Nov 06, 2009 at 22:49
You haven't said what you want to freeze.
If it's meat, why not use a vacuum packer?
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Follow Up By: Member - Porl - Friday, Nov 06, 2009 at 23:36
Friday, Nov 06, 2009 at 23:36
I wuz gonna say that. Read up on vacuum sealers, amazing things, got one and I use it, spent a week a away the other day with vacuum sealed meat, even on the bone (soon get to tell if there's a leak cause it's obviously not vacuumed after a leak), no hint of smelly bacteria or anything after 7 days at the bottom of the evakool fridge on a 4C setting. Probably would go a few weeks. And how long will you be away from a butcher? My Eurolab unit draws 110w so I imgaine a cheap 300W modified sine wave inverter would be overkill. Takes less than a minute so bugger all current draw. A hell of a lot cheaper than running a freezer.
Mind you I did go round Australia on a motorcyle in 1987 and ate fresh fruit and vegetables, canned stuff and peanut butter and jam sandwhiches when out of towns. You can get by. Lentil vegetable stews and cous cous etc. No fridge at all needed then.
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Follow Up By: Member Brian (Gold Coast) - Saturday, Nov 07, 2009 at 08:10
Saturday, Nov 07, 2009 at 08:10
Member - Porl posted: ...... >snip<"spent a week a away the other day with....snip<"
Geeeeeze Porl..... "a week away the other day"......... impressive mate!! Another reason to buy Toyota!!! LOL..... just kiddin' mate.
On a more serious note, the vacuum packed meat is definitely the way to go, we had our meat vacuum packed for a
Birdsville trip last year and were still eating it after returning home!! We had a couple of packs that had chops and the bone managed to pierce the vac packing, we didn't get any smell at all, but the meat went green and obviously that was enough to let us know there was a problem.
Cheers
Brian
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Reply By: greybeard - Saturday, Nov 07, 2009 at 00:43
Saturday, Nov 07, 2009 at 00:43
how crunchy do you want your beer?
travelled around with a 3 way fridge, no cryovac and rationed cold beer about 20 years ago with no problems. more recently with a waeco ( running as a fridge , cryovac meat and unrationed beer :)
closet we've come to feeling that we needed a freezer is when we have to eat our icecream at the
shop before dinner.
i'd much rather have a fridge, charge the batteries whilst driving and leave the generator at home.
ymmv
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