The Office Refrigerator, a Black Hole
Collectively as an office, we all appear as hoarders.
The shared office refrigerator is undeniably the most abused appliance found in my building. According to our SeamlessWeb sponsored Kitchen Contest, the rest of the world feels the same way too.
Perishable foods seem to find their way into the refrigerator only to linger for months without ownership. The loitering ends when, and only when, the office manager decides to do a complete inventory clean-out.
The obvious question on this issue: why do people abandon their lunches in the refrigerator?
Sadly, I am ranting about myself this week. I happened to be one of those bastards who left a sizeable chunk of lasagna to sit and rot, later to be found with some supernatural growth that is probably a delicacy in some countries.
As a person who goes out to eat every day, the office refrigerator is my uncharted territory. I decided not to long ago to start bring my lunch once a week to save some cash. As you may have guessed, day one happened to be lasagna.
Despite my valiant attempt, I cracked. With enough peer pressure from my co-workers, I joined the group to a lunch out of the office. Unfortunately, my lasagna did not.
Looks about right.
I think it’s still in the refrigerator but last time I checked, there were way too many plastic bags to come to a conclusion. I guess I need that refrigerator clean-out day to really find out.
Now I’m not saying what I did is acceptable. In fact, if I was a person who happened to consistently bring my own lunch, this would infuriate me.
But the past is the past. With that said, I have a new level of respect for the daily brown bagger even despite my disobedience of protocol.
Joining the club is truly harder than it looks and I certainly am not ready to use that refrigerator.
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If your refrigerator has a tray under the freezing section put six layers of newspaper in the tray. Now, plug the refrigerator into a timer set to run 20 hours and cut off 4 hours between 1:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. The frost will melt and be soaked up by the paper but the food won’t defrost. When the timer turns the refrigerator back on the water in the paper will freeze. You can wait sometimes up to two weeks before you take the frsozen newspaper and water and throw it away and replace it. If your refrigerator is a little one with no large tray take the lirrle tray out and put one layer of corrugated cardboard in the very bottom of the refrigerator cut to fit. Plug the refrigerator into a timer set to run 20 hours and to cut off 4 hours between 1:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. When the timer turns the refrigerator off the frost will melt and be soaked up by the cardboard, but it won’t freeze.STOP!!! Don’t take the cardboard out for six months.WHY??? The water in the cardboard evaporates over a period of time a little at a time and no water will leak out because there’s not that much.Be sure your foods all have sealed covers to keep the frost from melting into them. John Baxley