What did people use before fridges?

Answer 1

They kept food cool in the shade (in caves or cellars), or dangled it in pails or on hooks down wells. The original "ice box" was a type of refrigerator that used blocks of ice (manufactured or harvested from ponds) to keep an insulated box cool inside. As the ice melts it absorbs heat.

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Answer 2

Immediately before the home refrigerator became commn, the Ice Box was used in many homes. This was an insulated container that was kept cool by a block of ice placed in a section at the top. The ice was replaced every day or so by an "Ice Man" who made home deliveries the way "Milk Men" used to do. The Ice Box was less effective than a modern refrigerator, and smaller in size, so less food was stored in it, for shorter amounts of time. The ice box did not have a freezer section.

Before and during the ice box era, people in colder climates could keep some things cool, at least during the winter, by putting them outside on their windows. Some people used cold cellars and ice houses. They would dig a cellar and it would be a bit cooler in summer than the house was, so they would store fruits, canned food, etc., there. Similarly, others might have had a storage space dug into the ground. The sun only warms the outer layer of the soil.

Ice houses were stocked with ice that was harvested from frozen-over lakes during the winter. The ice house could be used as a storage place for food, or the ice could be sold for cooling on a hot summer day, or to make iced cream and other seasonal specialities.

Where these services were not available, people did not keep their food cold. They could preserve food by canning, drying, salting, or pickeling, or, in the case of grains, by turning it into alcoholic drinks.

A common item for cooling foods in colonial Australia was the Coolgardie safe. It consisted of a metal "safe" with screen-wire-like holes, which was hung outside on a verandah. Food which needed to be cool was placed inside the safe. Over the safe was placed a hessian cloth, dampened, so that as the breeze blew through the cloth, it cooled down the food inside. The safe hung from the ceiling, and often had a tin cup placed around the wire from which it hung, filled with water, so that ants could not descend the wire and get to the food.

Answer 3

many times it was preserved in jars like jams, and pickles (not just pickle pickles but as well as things like turnips).

things were buried

and things were kept cool with large blocks of ice in sheds in the yard or in cellars most things that really needed to stay cool were eaten right away

or if they were meats they were salted and stored for the winter

Answer 4

Canning, smoking, salting and root cellars.

Answer 5

They used to store goods in cool, dark caves were bacteria would not grow.

Answer 6

Some methods of food preservation that people used before refrigeration include

* dehydration

* pickling * canning * salting

Answer 7

100 years ago people use to preserve food by drying and salting or curing

Answer 8

salt

Answer 9

Icehouses.