Have you ever heard of burying ice in the gound to keep it from melting?!
Answers: I know of this practice in certain caribbean countries. You would dig a hole in the ground according to the size of the ice block. Put sawdust at the bottom of earth, put ice in then cover again with sawdust. When ice was needed you would dig up ice and use an ice pick to jab off ice needed. THANK GOODNESS FOR FRIDGES...
It's what my grandparents did here in the USA before refrigeration. They cut ice blocks from the lake, covered it with sawdust. My mother had an ice chest, wood cabinet, metal lined, held one block of ice in her kitchen.
ummmmmm....sure
Wow never heard this one!!
Old Skool styles ~ wouldnt happen in South Australia with the heat waves...
This used to be the only way to refrigerate food. Commercial operators would cut ice during the winter, pack it in sawdust, ship it to warehouses that had thick walls or were underground, and store it until it was needed. Then the ice man would pick up a wagon load, repack it in sawdust, and haul it to a customer's house for his cooler.
In the old days, jsut after they discovered how to make ice but not how to keep it, big mansions/houses used to built ice houses just for this purpose. Most of it were cellars and they used to wrap the ice with sacking as insulating material.
That's basically how an icehouse works. You can see them in some historical restoration towns.
yes the ground is insulated