S Viemeister wrote:

Edgar Iredale wrote:

I've just been looking at specs for this Frigidaire FVE2199b on the net
but haven't found a mention of the ambient requirement yet.

What do you do about it? Keep the kitchen that warm all the time? At
least your breadmaker won't need pre-heating.

The fridge and freezers I have were both rated for temperatures below 10C.
I have an extra fridge-freezer which lives in the utility room - it's only
used for overflow, when entertaining. The utility room isn't heated (it's
a passageway between the house and the garage), but when I'm using the
extra fridge in very cold weather, I leave the door into the back hallway
open.

I don't use a breadmaker. When it's cold in the kitchen, I just leave the
bread to rise, covered, in the airing cupboard.

Sheila

Thanks Sheila.

You do seem to have been rather wiser than me. May I ask what make and type
the fridge and freezer are and if you had to go to any special efforts to
find them? Presumably they are class SN machines rather than the N than
mine is. It'll be useful information for when this one packs up, and for
our fridge and freezer in the kitchen which are on their last legs.

It seems to me the fridge-freezers are the real problem because of the way
they work. They seem to fail quite expensively if they run (or fail to run)
long in a too cold place. I've been hearing about such disasters this
afternoon and am now quite determined never to buy a fridge-freezer unless
it has separate mechanisms for the two parts.

I remember making bread in the late seventies when there was a bakers strike
or something of the kind. I had a Raeburn in those days and really enjoyed
taking the finished cottage loaves to my elderly neighbour who had been
worried that he'd miss his bread. I'd never made bread before, or since. I
was quite proud of myself.

Edgar