By: sfenders
Floor space in a grocery store isn't going to tell you anything relevant. There's a whole lot of space devoted to stuff that tends to sit on the shelf for quite some time. Spices, sauces, crackers,...
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More than three-quarters of the food consumed in the United States today is processed, packaged, shipped, stored, and sold under artificial refrigeration. The shiny, humming stainless steel box in your...
View ArticleBy: DU
My first job out of college...no wait, this is the confusing direction to tell this. To transport things between cold warehouses, you need refrigeration trucks. Refrigeration trucks need to have a...
View ArticleBy: Slothrup
I used to write supply chain software, and I had a really tough time not snickering the first time I heard a customer say reefer. The control that science has given us of the fruit-ripening process is...
View ArticleBy: mrgrimm
Here's the image I've printed and put on my fridge to remind my daughter to fucking keep it shut. On an average day, $1.4 million worth of meat sits on wire shelves in Solasz's...
View ArticleBy: notyou
Nice article -- not a lot of context, however. What's it cost, in whatever terms, to maintain and defend the Coldscape's borders?
View ArticleBy: sparklemotion
CHILLED FLESH I'm pretty sure that I'm going to refer to meat as FLESH from now on. What's for dinner honey? Steaks of bovine FLESH. Did you need anything from the store? Chicken FLESH please. Would...
View ArticleBy: Egg Shen
Here's the image I've printed and put on my fridge to remind my daughter to fucking keep it shut. A plea for caution... As a boy, I once left my great-aunt's refrigerator door open. She - a kindly...
View ArticleBy: quonsar II: smock fishpants and the temple of foon
i once, several years ago, had the fascinating experience of visiting a massive deep freeze warehouse in the boonies of northwest lower michigan as part of a post-construction cleanup crew prepping a...
View ArticleBy: 7segment
Tropicana (a Pepsico company) was the industry leader, building 250,000-gallon stainless steel, individually insulated and refrigerated storage cylinders in an outdoor "tank farm" at its Bradenton,...
View ArticleBy: Pruitt-Igoe
I think part of the old-person anxiety about leaving the fridge open is that they would have had an icebox growing up, which is basically a big poorly-insulated cooler. Closing the icebox or cooler is...
View ArticleBy: the man of twists and turns
After extensive experiments involving spray urethane, ice chips, newspaper, vinyl bags, and a pair of Canadian coffin makers, Okazaki and the JAL team finally succeeded in designing and building an...
View ArticleBy: librarylis
That was weirdly fascinating! I hope she does develop it into a book, since I too would like to know more about the costs (and sustainability--especially given rising fuel costs) of some of these...
View ArticleBy: mrgrimm
The site of a refrigerator door left open even momentarily while groceries are put away fills me with anxiety that can only be assuaged by shutting the door as quickly as possible. Now just imagine you...
View ArticleBy: achrise
More than three-quarters of the food consumed in the United States today is processed, packaged, shipped, stored, and sold under artificial refrigeration. [* cite needed] (3/4 by volume, weight, SKU?)...
View ArticleBy: biffa
uncounted billions of cubic feet of chilled flesh, fish, or fruit Do so many businesses in the US really not have some sort of stock control?
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