Size of fridges - What do people use ?

G-day Moose,

Thanks for the reply
Rooms not a problem.. back of a 100 series LC

Power

I have more the enough. I have three bateries on board. (Optima's) and a power pack thats 650cca rated.
I can isolate 1 2 or three from each other in any order.

Thanks for the reply David. Ill see if I can find Melissa’s web site in past posts. Extra recipes never go astray. We’re fairly organized when it comes to the caravan and packing food etc because your never to far from shops etc, and when there’s only a couple of you its not too bad for long week ends and the like with a portable fridge, as for shopping for the two weeks for 3 +1. There is a science to it seems. I cringe at fitting in the weekly shopping going into the calvinator at home let a lone a port fridge for twice as long. It definitely comes down to the essentials.

I should have mentioned I we wont be taking the caravan for the two weeks in question. so we will only have a portable unit in the LC

Koh,

As David mentioned above, you might find the "Food" section on my website helpful regards camp catering, food storage, menu planning and recipes etc.
http://www.users.bigpond.com/flatdog

We (2 adults, 1 child and another on the way) use a 40L engel, no esky. We've found this to be plenty adequate for our needs and have no plans of upgrading to a larger fridge. There is no need at all to carry fruit & veg in the fridge, cryovac packaged meat will last for weeks so it doesn't need to be frozen. We always have room for a few beers and wine (can get some really good casket wine - we usually buy 2L caskets and refrigerate only the bladder, no box). Got three 1L water bottles which we rotate so we always have 1 or 2 in the fridge chilling. All cold drinks we place a few at a time in the fridge and replace with a hot one each time one is removed. Same principle applies to tetra packed milk, juice etc etc. By refrigerating only what we need to, when we need to, we always have plenty of room left for items that must be refrigerated (eg. marg, condiments, cheese, luncheon meat etc).

Maybe before you actually hand over your $'s, you could do a test run at home with a similar size cardboard box and see how you go fitting in everything you consider must go in the fridge. One last point is that if your fridge is being bounced around in the back of the 4WD, I believe it is better to have it more full than less full. Reason, tightly packed items won't move around as much, hence less leaks and breakages.

Hope this helps.

:o) Melissa
Petrol 4.5L GU Patrol &
Camprite TL8 offroad camper
http://www.users.bigpond.com/flatdog

height w/ door open and slide is 1030-1050 mms

Good point Chopper,, I just went and measured it. I have approx 1000mm to the roof. but I think I would loose another 50 mm where it slopes down at the back, which might come into play considering the length of it. Bugger !!.. How high is the slide? might be a bit hard using it with out one so mounting it staight to the floor might not be a good idea...thinking out load here a bit ..... any one got measurements (hieght with door open) on the CF-80. may be on their website,, ill check any way,
Nice to know you are happy with it.

Regards

William

William, glad you found the site useful. Makes the effort I put into it worthwhile.

:o) MelissaPetrol 4.5L GU Patrol &
Camprite TL8 offroad camper
http://www.users.bigpond.com/flatdog