On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:32:25 -0400, "cshenk" > wrote:

> I still made great meals, but cooling stock
>was in the sink til it cooled enough and if I needed the sink, went on a
>hotpad on the floor.
>
Growing up in Michigan, we stored MANY Thanksgiving and Christmas
dinners on the back porch. It was colder out there than the
refrigerator could get.