Yaoota! Magazine

By: Mai Sroor

It’s our mission in Yaoota to give you an updated view of the market as well as a historical glance at the indispensable appliance: refrigerators. 

Did you know that the Egyptians, Chinese, and Indians were among the first people to use ice in food preservation? By the early 19^th century, people worldwide would use a variety of early refrigeration methods. Sometimes food would be placed in a bucket then put in a cool river or lake.

Ice was a hard commodity to come by, especially in the early 19^th century. It wasn’t until German breweries began to make their way into the United States in the middle of the 19^th century that the demand for refrigeration became realized. Refrigeration later made its way to railroad cars where it was used to transport goods. By the 1920s, refrigerators were in many U.S. homes.

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