---- Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MYMTS.NET> wrote:
> Lots of people in cottage country use propane fridges if you're off the grid. They work as well as a conventional fridge. No idea if they use ammonia or what.

They use ammonia.

>
> Jeff
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jun 28, 2015, at 11:36 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
> >
> > At 11:52 AM 6/28/2015, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
> >> It's been running in the upper 30s (C) hereabouts for the past few days
> >> and into the foreseeable future. I would not want my household
> >> refrigerator to be ammonia-based. Esp. since we do not have
> >> air-conditioning in our house.
> >
> > I can't say how it would have worked in that weather, but the
> > household-type gas fridge that I grew up with at my grandparents'
> > camp in New Hampshire kept ice cream perfectly well.  To a kid it was
> > no different from the electric one at home, except quieter.  If the
> > grownups gave it any special treatment I wasn't aware of it.
> >
> > Yrs,
> > d

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David McNeely