at Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:48:47 GMT in <1104331727.557122.227650
@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, (SC) wrote :

>Thanks Alex. Storing may be hard in Texas. We use the air
>conditioning, but we normally have the room temp at about 74F. What do
>you think about a special cool storage (like the ones they have for
>wines)?

I haven't seen one yet where the interior didn't smell *strongly* of some
ghastly plastic. The idea is sound, but the available implementations seem
to be poorly conceived. What's needed is a unit made of stainless steel,
inside and out. Unfortunately, most such equipment tends to be commercial
stuff, which means the capacity will usually be far, far more than what you
need. A less expensive and awkward method may be to get a separate small
air conditioner for one room and run it at a cooler temperature.

>On the odors...not a prob. No one smokes, or wears perfumes in my
>house. We do somtimes have smelly types of food in the fridge though
>(like turkey from Boxing Day).

The fridge is usually a bad place to keep chocolate anyway. It's too cold,
and it's rare that there won't be at least one item smelling up the inside.
And the interior is usually of the same kind of stinky plastic you find in
wine coolers.

>Where do you put your chocolates?

In the wintertime I keep them in a sealed, double-insulated box in my
bedroom. During the summer, they're in the same boxes, but now in an air-
conditioned basement.

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Alex Rast

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