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A chest freezer might also work well. Lower the temp to -5 or so when power is available and let it creep up to 20f or so when not. I assume that’s not bad for
by mrfusion 8y ago
A chest freezer might also work well. Lower the temp to -5 or so when power is available and let it creep up to 20f or so when not.
I assume that’s not bad for the food as long as you’re staying below freezing?
- thatcat 8y agoIce changes densities at different temperatures. I'm not exactly sure what that would do to food, but you can add water jugs as a thermal mass to reduce the temperature swing.
- pofilat 8y agoGreat question. There's some debate, apparentl, but the basic result is that temperature variation has side-effects, but superfreezing (keeping temp below < -20F, or below 0F, depending on the studied and what is studied) avoids the problems. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie50464a017 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie50464a017