New Refrigerator Arrived

     It's here.  I paid extra to have the installers take the old one and all the packing away.  And it appears to be working okay.

     This one reminding me why I dislike top-freezer refrigerators.  It manages to make it worse by being about seven inches shorter than the old one.  I can fix that part of it; I've already got a riser with a storage drawer sketched out.  But it's still kind of a sit-down fridge, if you're looking for something that's not frozen.  Pull up a chair and browse!  The appliance outfits just don't seem to be making the arrangement I prefer in anything shorter than six feet tall.  (Powell Crosley, Jr. seems to have started the big top freezer trend.)

     An old-time single-door fully-enclosed refrigerator and most of the "Monitor Top" models that preceded them had good internal sightlines: the small freezer compartment didn't obscure the view of items in the refrigerator proper.  But a two-door model with the freezer on top has a huge barrier for anyone whose eyes are higher than the top of the main compartment, and the deeper the unit, the worse it is.  With older technology, you wanted the freezer up high; the coils around the outside of it made the small freezer freeze, and cooled the much larger compartment.  Monitor tops picked up a little more efficiency by mounting the condensing coil and compressor on top.  But modern insulating materials are much better, and compressors are more efficient, too.  There's no reason other than tradition to stick the freezer up top.

     I'm stuck with it for a while now.  Awkward though it it, it seems to be a nice little machine, with lots of space inside.  And it fits the available spot in the kitchen.

     A huge plus is that I have made a good start on straightening up the dining room/library.  It really got out of hand during the pandemic and it was badly cluttered before.