Remember the first fridge your family ever bought? Prior to refrigerators we had ice chests. The ice man would come every second day and deliver a big block of ice which he would carry with ice tongs (were they called pliers?) and deliver it into the top of the chest. Fridges arrived in the 50s […]
![Remember ‘Defrosting’ the Fridge? Photo from Google Images. Early fridges had a small freezer compartment big enough for an Amscol brick of ice cream and needed defrosting regularly.](http://www.adelaiderememberwhen.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Kelvinator-Freezer-300x200.png)