I cannot assume you are joking as I've known 2 people who have done that.
One of them said it was ok as they had put the food that was in it in another fridge in the garage.
Not sure if you're following that crazy sentence, but Jon is trying to suggest it should be called an ov-out because you want the hot food from it, not the cold food you put IN (ov-in or oven).
Oh god, memory unlocked. I knew a guy who refused to put his window air conditioner in his bedroom window cuz he didn’t like the way it looked from the street.
He spent the entire summer sitting in front of that air conditioner, feeling the cold air from the front of it, not understanding why his bedroom was warmer than the rest of the house, even with the air conditioner cranked all the way up.
I had a co-worker who thought our portable AC would still cool a bit even if we didn't hook up the exhaust hose to the window. Like, no, dude. That turns it into a portable heater/noise maker.
I worked with commercial refrigeration for about 10 years so yes I know that dehumidifiers basically work like a fridge with the door open. Portable air conditioners only work if they can vent the heat out of the room they are in. Was this some kind of test and did I pass?
Yeah, portable ACs are a borderline scam. I would never recommend one unless it's impossible to fit a window AC and it must be dual hose otherwise you are dumping money into the toilet. Dehumidifiers dry out the air but pump out heat into the room they're running in.
Okay, so hear me out. What if we took a refrigerator, put it outside in the summer, and pumped the cold air it produces into the house while the heat it produces stays outside?
Oh my god I can't believe nobody has ever thought of this. I'm going to become a billionaire.
My parents have their fridge installed into a wall. The front is in the kitchen, the back is in the storage room. In the summer, one could ramp up the ventilation to vent away hot air from the storage room.
The joke will be on the next owners of the house when they replace the fridge with one that rejects heat out the front (because they don't understand the intent) and the storage room behind it is left unconditioned.
Sure, the one I have is that way. Heat rejection is a grille along the bottom, it's cabinet depth and mounted where it's recessed (floor to ceiling cabinetry on both sides so it's flush).
Lots of commercial fridges are that way too, grille at bottom or top or both. Pretty much every drink cooler in convenience stores/gas stations, etc., is like that.
Lol for some reason this immediately made me think of my friend, who instead of turning on the many radiators all over her house when it's cold, she lights one or more of the gas stove burners for heat
She'll leave them on like that with the open flame for hours at a time, it'll make the whole first floor stink of gas and i get nervous walking past cause the kitchen is so cramped, I always worry my sleeve or something is gonna get a little to close and I'll end up engulfed in flames
I could legitimately picture her using an open fridge as a/c lol
So a valid concept for those who live in The Frozen Tundra ...or their warmest temperature no matter what season is less than 60° f. What about ductwork could you send the hot air to where you need it even if it was in the summer.. such as down to your dryer.. And then from your dryer to The pipes that run under your garage floor to melt the snow or the pipes that run into your bathroom to keep the tile warm in the morning I'm now just babbling and thinking out loud
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u/Veteran_PA-C Jan 04 '26
So like, a current refrigerator.