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I did that with a stone kitchen with exterior insulation, opening the door
to the rest of the house to keep it about 36 F in the winter. The fridge
rarely ran. My barn fridge gets unplugged from October through March, with
an EH38 "Easy Heat" socket ($10.99 at Lowe's) in series with a 100 W
trouble light in a bottom drawer to keep the carrots and apples from
freezing.

What's the actual power draw on an Easy Heat socket (whatever that is) in
series with a 100W bulb? It sounds like at best a zero-sum game - a quick
look at Canadian Energuide ratings shows small refrigerators to be using
less than 1.5 kWh daily, so your heating appliance needs to be using less
than 50W.
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derek