Chris J Dixon wrote:
Paul wrote:

The regular refrigerator has to be set to a too aggressive
setting, to do freezer packs.

Only a "new" fridge makes rock hard ice cream, with
authority. When fridges get older, the chest freezer
is a good place to store the ice cream instead. Or, to charge
up a freezer pack.

That is an interesting take on the issue. My fridge-freezer is
now 13 years old, and the freezer compartment is still
maintaining the set -19 degrees. Isn't that cold enough for you?

Chris

Because a refrigerator has adjustments, Uncle Vinny
may have come over the house and randomly twisted
the knobs.

The chest freeze is much less likely to be mis-adjusted
that way. Leaving a lack of maintenance (frost buildup)
as a potential source of malfunction. Some people have
never seen the bottom of their chest freezer, since the
day they bought it. And the bottom of it is lined with
freezer-burned roasts :-) Chest freezers are like an
archeology dig ("hey, this one says roast dinosaur!").

Paul