As a break from revising, I'm going to be busy cleaning out the kitchen cupboards and pantry so that we can unpack some of our belongings.
Last weekend, I scrubbed the meat safe. Yes, the meat safe. This is one of the features of the house that suggests it might have been moved to the site in 1969 rather than built there.
It has gauze panels top and bottom to keep the flies out and slatted shelves to allow the air to flow freely. The only other time that I've seen a meat safe was at the ranch where we stayed in Argentina. There they had a box with a wooden frame and gauze sides and it was used to keep the creme caramel cool underneath a tree - the ranch only had solar power and so the fridge was infrequently used.
Our meat safe will come in handy as we haven't yet purchased a fridge. The temperature inside the house was only 14 degrees last weekend, given the lack of heating and the autumnal weather, so I think the meat safe was quite effective keeping James' beer tolerably cool.
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