freezing the milk you can stop the bacteria altogether, and the milk can last for months (until effects like freezer burn begin to spoil the milk in non-bacterial ways). Refrigeration and freezing are two most common forms of food preservation used today. In the kitchen of nearly every home in America there is a refrigerator. Every 15 minutes or so you hear the motor turn on, and it magically keeps things cold. Without refrigeration, we’d be throwing out our leftovers instead of saving them for another meal.The refrigerator is one of those miracles of modern living that totally changes the life of every consumer. Prior to refrigeration, the only way to preserve meat was to salt it, and iced beverages in the summer were a real luxury. Now, the fridge is one of the most common home appliances in everyone’s home.Works Cited PageBunch, Bryan and Alexander Hellemans. The Timetables of Technology: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Technology. New York: Simon & Simon, 1993.Donald Clarke, Mark Dartford, How it works: The illustrated Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Volume 15, Marshall Cavendish Inc / January 1977.“The History of the Refrigerator (including Freezers)” http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrefrigerator.htm (2 September 2001).“History of the Refrigerator”http://www2.whirlpool.com/html/homelife/cookin/cookref5.htm (2 September 2001).“Eloctrolux Fridge Histroy”http://www.eletrolux.com/node218.asp (3 September 2001)....
