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Fridge In Your Garage? Take Care.
during holidays and parties. But the garage isn’t necessarily the best place to put it.
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Unless your garage is air conditioned or insulated, it gets awfully hot in there during the summer, and that can force the refrigerator to work overtime to keep the food cold. You’ll see the cost of that hard work on your electric bill.
If you must put a ’fridge in the garage, keep a few things in mind:
• It’s not just the heat that stresses out a garage-based refrigerator: Manufacturers don’t recommend placing one in a space whose temperature dips below 55 degrees in the winter. In an unheated garage, the ’fridge can actually warm up frozen food if the room temperature dips below freezing.
• Have an electrician upgrade the electrical circuits in your garage before you plug in a refrigerator. If the appliance overtaxes the circuit, you could wind up with a lot of smelly, spoiled food.
t’s convenient to have an extra refrigerator for overflow food storage
• Plug your refrigerator only into a grounded wall outlet.
• Avoid plugging the appliance into an outlet that’s controlled by a switch. Someone could accidentally turn the switch off and cut power to the ’fridge.
• Clean a garage-based refrigerator more often than the one in the kitchen. The garage gets a lot dirtier than the house does.
• Don’t stack items around the refrigerator or lean anything against it. Like any appliance, it needs room to “breathe” or it won’t operate efficiently.
• If your garage refrigerator used to be your kitchen refrigerator, it’s probably pretty old and very inefficient. You’re better off buying a small, new refrigerator and recycling the old one so you won’t waste energy and unnecessarily run up your electric bill.
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http://www.togetherwesave. com/power-of-community/safety.
Burrito Pie
INGREDIENTS 2 lbs. ground beef 1 onion, chopped 2 teaspoons minced garlic 1 (2 oz) can black olives, sliced 1 (4 oz) can diced green chili peppers 1 (10 oz) can diced tomatoes with green Chile peppers 1 (16 oz) jar taco sauce 2 (16 oz) cans refried beans 12 (8 inch) flour tortillas 9 ounces shredded Colby cheese
DIRECTIONS Preheat oven to 350°F.
In a large skillet over medium heat, sautè the ground beef for 5 minutes. Add the onion and garlic, and sautè for 5 more minutes. Drain any excess fat, if desired. Mix in the olives, green chile peppers, tomatoes with green Chile peppers, taco sauce and refried beans. Stir mixture thoroughly, reduce heat to low, and let simmer for 15 to 20 minutes.
Spread a thin layer of the meat mixture in the bottom of a 4 quart casserole dish. Cover with a layer of tortillas followed by more meat mixture, then a layer of cheese. Repeat tortilla, meat, cheese pattern until all the tortillas are used, topping off with a layer of meat mixture and cheese.
Bake for 20 to 30 minutes in the preheated oven, or until cheese is slightly brown and bubbly.
SOURCE:
ALLRECIPES.COM
Kilowatt | SEPTEMBER 2015 | 4
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