subject: American Fridge Freezers And Range Cookers For The British Home - Living Large [print this page] The British kitchen, usually, is the habitat of small and boring things. British fridge freezers, unlike American fridge freezers, are dumpy little boxes made of easily crackable ugly white plastic, only suitable for food storage if the house is occupied by a single person. The freezer compartment on British fridge freezers is laughable, usually giving enough space to hold one tub of ice cream, one bag of frozen peas and that ugly lump of encroaching ice that moves, like some kind of evil-tasting glacier, inexorably from the back of the fridge week after menacing week.
The Americans are really good at one thing: being big. Their cars are big; their expansionist foreign policies are big; and their domestic appliances are big. Unlike their cars, which are appallingly bad for the environment, or their foreign policy, which is appallingly bad for everyone, American fridge freezers and range cookers are awesome additions to any home particularly the traditionally stuffy homes of the Brits.
American fridge freezers, by stark contrast, glory in their use of space. The freezer compartment in American fridge freezers is exactly the same size as the fridge bit: a device made possible by the fact that American fridge freezers are split vertically rather than laterally. American fridge freezers have a pair of swing doors: one side opens to reveal a fridge, in which as much storage space is enabled by the guts of the door itself as the bowels of the fridge; and the other side lets you into a freezer. Again, the door part of the freezer section holds almost as much stuff as the actual freezer: which means American fridge freezers can realistically support a whole family, rather than a single man who only eats ice cream.
