Tuesday, January 03, 2024

The Best Rated Top Five Refrigerators for 2012

Best Rated Top Five Refrigerators

Best Rated Top Five Refrigerators

 

The Best Rated Top Five Refrigerators for 2012

As the year comes to a close, many home owners will start to think about how they can upgrade their kitchen in 2012 – with a new refrigerator often being very near the top of that list, being the main centre piece of any modern kitchen design.  With that in mind, many online retailers are preparing themselves for an upsurge in sales over January and February.  If you are considering buying a new fridge freezer, then here’s a small selection of what we believe will be the top 5 best-selling units over the next 12 months – and we’ve listed a refrigerator to suit all budgets and styles. 

 

 

Haier HNSB02 1.7 Cubic Feet1.7 Cubic Feet Compact Refrigerator

For those on a not only a budget, but also with limited space, then a compact refrigerator will best suit you.  Top of the brands in this niche tend to be the Haier range and their best-selling HNSB02 1.7 Cubic Feet Compact model consistently comes top of consumer and customer ratings.  You can find out more about this product in this online Haier HNSB02 review and can expect to pay under $100 dollars for this most practical of mini-fridges. 

 

 

Koolatron KWC-4 6 Can Vending – Coca Cola Retro Style

Next up on our list is a refrigerator to suit people who love a bit of retro design, and on that front the Koolatron KWC-4 Cola Fridge does not disappoint. It comes in red with the Coca-Cola branding prominently displayed and adds a touch of 1960’s retro kitsch design to any household.  It’s not very big, as its main purpose is as a soda can vending fridge, but you can also store smaller chilled food items in it should you wish to do so.

 

 

Amana 25 Cubic Feet Side-by-Side Refrigerator – ASD2522WRB in Black

Moving up in capacity with a refrigerator that is very much suited to a larger family, you should check out the Amana black side by side model.  It’s large in size with a whopping 25 cubic feet and is in stylish black.  The Amana fridge comes with a range of functionality designed to meet the everyday demands of family life as there’s lots of room inside it and includes an external ice dispenser machine and water filters.  The cheapest online deals for this refrigerator tend to stop around the $850 Dollars mark – with Amazon offering some good prices over December into January. 

 

 

Samsung Stainless Steel RF267AAWP 25.5 Cubic Foot French Door Refrigerator

Reading online Samsung refrigerator reviews, you will see that this stainless steel model typically receives a high rating of at least 80% – and it’s easy to see why.  It includes a very intuitive digital display letting the customer set temperature and humidity for each separate section inside the fridge and freezer.   You can even thaw or chill items very quickly using the CoolSelect Pantry function – which will help if you need to prepare cold items quickly for a dinner party in the New Year.  This one will set you back well over $1500 Dollars so you might need to look harder for a bargain on this one – but stainless steel refrigerators do tend to be more expensive as a general guide. 

 

 

Whirlpool ED5FVGXWS 36 25.3 Cubic Feet Refrigerator

Competing with the Samsung model for business is this Whirlpool refrigerator of a similar capacity and price point.  It does cost a little less, but comes with very similar features and is one of the highest rated refrigerators when it comes to Energy Star qualification.  It will probably cost you around $60 dollars a year to run in electricity bills which makes it one of the more energy efficient models on the market. 

 

 

More Refrigerator Reviews and Ratings

If this selection has whetted your appetite for a new fridge freezer in 2012, then make sure you visit www.RefrigeratorReviews4u.com  - the number one online resource for all things refrigeration related including reviews, comment, FAQs, and video guides on all the latest models and brands.

Tuesday, January 03, 2024

Pizza Delivery Stories

 

Pizza Delivery

Funny - or not so funny - Pizza Delivery Stories

Pizza Delivery

If popular culture if anything to go, the life of a pizza delivery person can be a rather eventful one. Whether you’re being seduced by a lonely housewife or cryogenically frozen (and then waking up some time in the next millennium), something amusing always seems to happen. While the latter example is admittedly a little far-fetched, do such crazy things actually happen to our brave delivery boys and girls? Here’s a selection of the top five most commonly encountered scenarios in funny pizza delivery stories; I’ll leave it to you to decide whether there’s a crust of truth in them.

 

 

The one with an unbelievable tip
In the service industry, tipping can be something of a touchy subject. Generally speaking, the larger and more complicated the order, the bigger the tip should be in order to compensate. However, in a lot of pizza delivery tales the customers don’t seem to know this unwritten rule. In one story a $200 dollar order to an office building netted the driver a mere 33 cent tip (which he then declined on principle), a similar amount given to one poor guy after he was attacked by the customer’s pitbull (although they did drive him to hospital afterwards.)

 

 

The one with university students
University students are well known for their crazy hijinks, especially when it comes to ordering takeaway (indeed, I have one story about the aftermath of a certain  Chinese Takeaway   order I bore witness to that I’d really rather not relay). Some of the most baffling student-related pizza delivery stories involve them answering the door naked (and seemingly unaware of this fact) or a group of drunken frat boys attempting to climb into and onto a female driver’s car while screaming promises not to assault her; real classy, guys.

 

 

The one with a lucky escape
Sometimes pizza delivery people can unwittingly get themselves into some genuinely dangerous situations. Whether it’s delivering to drug dealers hiding out in motels in the heart of the ghetto or facing up to creepers who are a little too eager to get you to wait inside their house while they go get you your tip money, it can be a bit scary.

 

 

The one with a celebrity
Celebrities have got to eat too, and a fair number of them favor pizza. While delivery people often don’t get to see the actual celebrities themselves (for example one delivery guy got to deliver pizza to Tina Turner’s post concert party; while he didn’t get a tip, he did get to attend the VIP party), there are apparently a lucky few who get to deliver a Hawaiian straight into the hands of one of the rich and famous. Sometimes it can even be the other way around; in 2010 LaToya Jackson was seen out on the streets of New York trying to sell pizza to passers by as part of a reality TV show.

 

 

The one with a plot like a bad porno
These kinds of stories are usually the most hilarious (but also sometimes rather disturbing). Whether it entails delivering pizza to a dominatrix and her theatrically unenthused client or stumbling across a couple or couples in flagrante, you know that it’s going to be one of those nights. Better or in reality usually worse; yet, the unsuspecting delivery person is invited to join in with the festivities. The mind boggles…

 

 

Raphael O’Neil is both a pizza fan and a delivery boy himself (although admittedly once he became the latter he ended up being somewhat less the former). His favorite topping is chicken and mushroom.