After 2 days (at standard room temperature and humidity) bread starts to get toxic. The molds that appear in it (Aspergillus, particularly Aspergillus flavus) produce dangerous mycotoxins called aflatoxins. Aflatoxins are carcinogenic, i.e. regular consumption of food that contains aflatoxins can cause cancer (usually after years of usage).
How does the bread mold look [...]
Refrigerator door alarm vs. high temperature alarm
Actually there are two alarm systems used with refrigerators. The first one signals (beeps) when the door is open longer than set period of time (usually 1-5 minutes). The second one alerts you when the temperature in the fridge exceeds certain limit (10 – 12 Celsius degrees).
Do I really [...]
Some refrigerators come with built-in safety latches (so called child-lock, children-lock safety systems). Such safety latch should keep toddlers or smaller children from opening the refrigerator (and doing you know what…).
So much for the promotional materials. Now little reality…
Go to the kitchen and try to open your fridge. How much strength you must have [...]
The built-in icemakers provide you with plenty of ice without stressful dealing with the plastic or rubber ice cube trays. Just push the button and you get couple of nice looking cubes right in your glass of whisky. And as their name indicates, the cold water dispensers provide cold water.
Ice/water dispenser advantages
Ice or cold water [...]
Sorry for such complicated title but the above question appears in your emails very frequently.
The TRUTH REALLY IS that the 40 W bulb´s power consumption is considerable compared to 100 W consumed by the whole refrigerator.
The TRUTH ALSO IS that such 40 W light bulb - when on - heats the inner space of the [...]
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The top-freezers (also called the top-mount refrigerators) appeared earlier than their bottom-freezer brothers. Why the manufacturers decided to produce fridges with freezer on top? My opinion is… due to the evolution.
First there were independent refrigerator and freezer units without any successful attempts to combine them into one appliance.
Little later a compact refrigerator was born with [...]
Look at this neat thing! A tiny, little mini-refrigerator operated from the USB port of your PC.Manufactured by Brando (Hong-Kong), it looks like a real refrigerator in red/white color and is even equipped with an internal LED light so that you can use it at night as well.
With its dimensions of 19,4×9×9cm (approximately 7,6×3,5×3,5 [...]
Recently, Electrolux came up with very interesting fridge design idea. Instead of pimping up the design of a standard (large) refrigerator over and over again, Electrolux engineers split the appliance into several smaller compartments.
These mini-fridges (called Nfridges) are fully independent from each other and use the “green” magnetic refrigeration method which, I hope, will soon [...]
Do you remember Anke Salomon´s refrigerator project?
If you have something to show as well, do not hesitate and submit your entry by August 1, 2007, via Electrolux Design Lab web site.
A limited number of finalists will be chosen by the end of September, they will present their work to the jury in Paris in November, [...]