"Billy" 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.

Hehe gets cold enough here at times for that, but not often or long.