What is the smallest freezer that money can buy?

artbaron

neilwoods wrote: »

Jeez, this topic is still going. As for student, they would simply think, what is more to worry about in life, a freezer or living, then would go buy a small desktop freezer, put it in there room and make some ice.

You've missed the point. There are apparently a huge number of students out there who not only have hundreds of pounds spare to spend on cutting edge appliances to keep their ice-cubes frozen, and who cannot be bothered to walk from one room to the next to achieve this aim, but who ironically live in a room so minuscule that even the janitor of a Tokyo high-rise would describe it as a broom cupboard.

I concede the OP has beaten me to the punch with this revolutionary business idea, but all is not lost. I've come up with the concept of a tiny microwave the size of a monkey's thumb that students can use to cook up to six grains of rice or barley. It will cost less than a decent quality TV and I think it'll be a best seller.

neilwoods

Sorry but this OP is a total idiot.

artbaron

That's another way of looking at it, yes.

John_Gray

Well, you must admit that he's be taken seriously by several people - at least initially - and not backed down when challenged about the total absurdity of his ideas!

I'm putting this forward in the Christmas Competition for the thread which has pointlessly wasted the greatest amount of time and effort, and which refused to die justifiably after just a few posts.

shiphen

neilwoods wrote: »

Sorry but this OP is a total idiot.

That's a clever logical argument. Congratulations.

shiphen

That's right. Why don't you all gang up and issue some ad hominum attacks. That way you MUST be right..., right?

After all, 100 Billion flies can't all be wrong can they - eat sh*t.

What you brain scientists are all missing is that I am saving money on rent by having very VERY little space to play with. I have a couple of places that I could put a freezer but although they are wide, they are very shallow in height.

Why cant you egotistical idiots get through your numb skulls not everyone wants a freeze that is roughly cubic.

And why cant you accept that some people have different requirements from your own personal requirements? What's wrong with you people?

neilwoods

Given the fact that there over 2300 views of this thread and you are the only one who requires such a device, then you are in a very small minority, so times that by a few hundred thousand, so hardly a big market then is there. And you still fail to comprehend that the condenser unit would end up taking up all the space, so no space in the actual compartment.

So only way you are going to get one, is have one built at about 10 times the cost of a standard freezer, so hardly a great money saving idea.

After all if there such a demand as you claim, then don't you think they would have created one, after all everyone needs a freezer where you store a few ice cubes a couple of sausages.

If your going to quote latin, at least get the spelling right.

tafelmoneysaver

Instead of trying to keep your ice frozen why not just make it on demand with an ice maker?
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4765671.htm

John_Gray

shiphen wrote: »

Why don't you all gang up and issue some ad hominum attacks?

You're really desperate to keep this going, aren't you!

I think you will find that most of the comment has been about the impracticability and fatuity of your idea, not of yourself.

To continue Neil Woods' comment, and for your future use, the correct Latin term is ad hominem...

shiphen

John_Gray wrote: »

I think you will find that most of the comment has been about the impracticability and fatuity of your idea, not of yourself.

Erm are you claiming that being called a "total idiot" is not a personal attack? And that I have no right to object?

neilwoods wrote: »

Sorry but this OP is a total idiot.

Regarding the condenser size maybe yes maybe no. What is the minimum VERTICAL size for a condenser? (Please try to remember, in case you had forgotten I do I have lots of horizontal size available.) There are of course several different types of heat pump (e.g. solid state) in any case and I assume they would have different minimum (vertical) sizes.

Also I notice that that icecream maker seems to be able to get away with pretty darned small dimension being as size of just: H34, W26, D33cm. AND in that time it's managing to freeze three different sizes of ice "within 20 minutes". Clearly it's condenser must be less than 40-50cm in height. Pluse given the specific heat capacity plus phase change energy required to freeze ambient temperature water from scratch into a load of ice cubes that's not a bad achievement... In my experience water put into a deep freeze takes more than 20 minutes to freeze.

Any food I would be freezing would not be 100% water and therefore at least a fraction easier to freeze and so long as it managed to freeze over an hour or two that would suffice.

Thinking about it I cant see what all the fuss is about regarding temperature gradients, because most fridges have a small freezer unit built into them no problem. How can they achieve that so easily?

Thank you for correcting my Latin typo. A just a shade pedantic and could be seen as a covert attack ad hominem attack but I'm sure you had the best of intentions.