Five more weird fridges

May 14th, 2013

Appliance Talk Humour

It seems that we just can’t get enough of weird fridges here at Appliances Online.  If we’re not blogging about odd fridge designs, or fridges arranged into elaborate public art displays, we’re looking at tales of refrigeration disasters, or fridges that have been overrun with felines.

So here are a few more fridges that we ‘ve pulled from the bowels of the internet and why they’ve impressed us so much:

Mortuary fridge for the home

According to The Toowoomba Chronicle, a local Tender Centre recently sold this fridge, which in a previous life (some pun intended) was used in a mortuary to store the bodies of the departed.

The note says “great bar fridge, spirits on the house”.  Geddit?

According to Tender Centre owner Terry George, the fridge’s previous owner thought it’d be a bit of fun to serve his mates steaks and beers from a mortuary fridge, but none of these mates seemed to like the idea for some reason…

While in the end the fridge was sold to a farmer for use as a meat fridge for freshly-slaughtered livestock, part of us wonders just how effective a mortuary fridge would be in a domestic situation.  The sliding tray would certainly be strong enough to support some significant weight, and also make it easy to access even the items stored down at the very back.

Though maybe I’m being a bit weird here…

Doctor Who fridge

Need a fridge-sized novelty based on a popular and long-running television franchise?  Then relax – your search is now over!

The creation of a pair of artists, B.E. Johnson and Joy Alyssa Day, this is basically a re-skinning of a fairly typical 3 door fridge into something resembling the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space) device from Doctor Who (though for legal reasons, it’s actually called the “Police Box Fridge Kit“).

While I’m sure you could give your own French door fridge a similar treatment, alas it will not make it bigger on the inside (yes, an obvious joke, but an obligatory one).

Royal fridge

Remember the wedding of Wills and Kate?

Sorry, I meant (*deep breath*) His Royal Highness Prince William Arthur Philip Louis, Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn, Baron Carrickfergus, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Aide-de-camp to Her Majesty, and Her Royal Highness Princess William, Duchess of Cambridge, Countess of Strathearn, Baroness Carrickfergus?

Well, you’d never, EVERY forget about the happy couple if you were confronted by their grinning faces on the front of this fridge design from the UK distributor of GE fridges.

I imagine that much like other celebratory paraphenalia from royal weddings, coronations and jubilees, we may find a few of these fridges gathering dust in the back of antique shops in 30 years time…

Solar-powered camel fridge

No, this isn’t a fridge for the storage of camels (as important as proper camel-storage is) – rather, it’s an ingenious means of providing health care in remote African regions that can’t be easily reached by conventional means of transport, developed in part by Designmatters and put into use by Community Health Africa Trust.

These miniature fridges aren’t meant to deliver cold food and chilled drinks into the desert (remember, there are plenty of uses for a fridge that don’t involve food), but rather keep life-saving medicines and vaccines preserved at cool temperatures.  The solar panels atop the camel’s back keeps the fridge powered without the need for a heavy battery or REALLY long extension cord…

This is an excellent example of an appliance being used creatively for a great cause.

Blackboard fridge

We’ve mentioned before how retro-style appliances such as those from SMEG are very “in” at the moment.  We’ve also described how fridges can, in a pinch, be transformed into a handy space for leaving notes and artworks for one another, not unlike a whiteboard.

So really, it’s only natural that someone out there would follow this logic to its conclusion and fit out a fridge surface to also function as a blackboard.

I can just imagine someone writing a hundred lines of “I will not eat the chocolate in the fridge” on the door… then doing the exact opposite!

Found a strange fridge that you’d like to share?  Tell us all about it!