Refrigerating Food Without Electricity

With costs rising, people are trying to shave off costs anywhere they can. Unfortunately, life seems downright unbearable without some of our most expensive luxuries. For instance, how much of your power bill is devoted to refrigeration? If you could find a way to keep food without using electricity, how much money might you save?

In the modern age, electric powered refrigerators seem like the only option. How many people do you know with anything else? Can you even think of another way to deal with your food?

Before this age, people didn't starve though. They didn't have abundant sources of fresh food at all times, yet they managed to get by. How did they do it? Lets talk about a few modern versions of old fashioned refrigeration technologies.

First off, not everything needs to be refrigerated. In fact, most of the things people put in their fridge doesn't need to be there. If you're going to eat your fresh fruits and vegetables within a few days, they are fine in a basket on the counter. Condiments, too. Really, I've never seen peanut butter or katsup ever go bad - and we don't even own a fridge.

The only things I usually refrigerate are meats, dairies, and leftovers. Once you mix and cook and generally change food into something else, it tends to spoil quickly. Oh, but I said we don't have a fridge, didn't I? We don't. I use something called a Zeer Pot, or "the pot in pot method" of refrigeration. I also use the weather to cool or even freeze items in cooler weather.