… eating ice cream directly from the pint.
It always destroys spoons eventually, might as well use ones too sharp, too tinny, too light, the wrong shape, or with just the wrong bend in them already.
Edit: for all the head scratchers out there, it’s a trait some of us neurodivergent folks have. Some forks or spoons or whatever are nice to hold, and some are actually upsetting to use.
Do most refrigerators in the world not have a freezer?
Because I’m pretty sure that’s what they mean by “fridge freezer” as opposed to a separate “deep freezer” like a chest or an upright freezer with no refrigerator.
Not sure how common having a separate freezer is in other parts of the world, but it’s fairly common in the US.
I know my basement freezer is really fucking cold, it’s actually kind of painful to handle things I pull out of it sometimes because they’re so cold. The freezer on my fridge upstairs is a bit warmer (still well below freezing of course) I can usually manage to scoop ice cream out of my upstairs freezer without too much trouble, but out of my downstairs freezer it would be kind of like chiseling at a rock with a spoon.
Separate chest freezers aren’t actually that common unless you live in rural areas.
Anyone with kids has one. Can’t feed a family of 4 on a fridge and fridge freezer.
It of course varies a lot depending on where you are but I live in the suburbs, and they’re pretty common around me. Not necessarily an “everyone has one” kind of thing, but definitely something that you know a good handful of people who have them.
https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/data/2020/state/pdf/State Appliances.pdf
According to the EIA, about 33% of households overall, state by state it’s as low as 19% in California, and as high as 65% in south dakota. So even in states like California, Nevada, or New Jersey where 94+% of people live in an area that’s considered urban, if you assume 100% of the rural residents have freezers, that’s still about 13% of those city dwellers with a dedicated freezer.
I feel like the biggest deciding factor is probably whether or not you own a house, which is going to have a lot of correlation to being urban/rural. They take up space, so not conducive to apartment living, and they’re kind of a bitch to move so you probably want to make sure you’re going to be able to stay in a house for a while before buying a freezer so that you don’t have to deal with moving it every few years if your landlord jacks up the rent and forces you out.
The freezer on my fridge is just called a freezer, but it runs at something like -25C last I measured it
How cold are your “deep freezers”?
My fridge freezer is currently set to -2f (about -19c)
My basement freezer doesn’t have a convenient temperature display, and I don’t have a thermometer in it, I’d guess I’m probably at around -10 to -20f (about -23 to -29c) some people go as low as -40f (which is also -40c)
Very interesting, maybe our ice creams are different but ours are inedible at approx -20 in the fridge freezer (chest freezers would be the rare one here)
The type of ice cream definitely makes a difference, more premium brands tend to be a lot stiffer than cheaper brands. And I admittedly tend to buy just some basic vanilla ice cream because I like to go crazy with toppings.
My brain defaults to fahrenheit, and that probably shapes how I look at temperatures a bit, but those temperature differences between our different freezers feels pretty significant to me. In warmer temperatures, for example, that amount of temperature difference could be the difference between shorts & t shirt weather and needing a jacket.
Also, for what it’s worth, my family once acquired a full container of Ben & Jerry’s that would have been served at one of their stores. The instructions on the box were to store it at or below -20f/-29c, and bring it up to 10f/-12c in the serving cabinet.
What’s a serving cabinet? I just leave the icecream on the kitchen bench for fifteen minutes