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Wine Cooler Refrigerator For Optimal Storage Of Your Collection
By Barry J Smallhorn
It might be understandable if you feel that the idea of having
a wine cooler refrigerator is a bit of a scam to make you buy
yet another appliance, when surely your regular fridge will keep
your wine just as well.
But it may surprise you to learn that an ordinary kitchen fridge
really isn’t the best place to keep your wine. The small wine
cabinets that you can sit on your counter or set into your cabinetry
allow much more consistent control of temperature and other factors
that go into keeping wine in good condition.
It’s the temperature consistency that is the biggest difference
between a wine cooler refrigerator and a regular kitchen fridge.
To begin with, few kitchen refrigerators have settings so accurate
that you know the actual temperature inside them; most just have
vague numbers on a dial, moving you perhaps between "cool"
and "coldest."
Maintaining A Consistent Internal Temperature
You also have the temperature fluctuating both as the compressor
cycles up and down, and when the door is opened and closed on
a frequent basis. In wine storage refrigerators, not only can
you set the actual internal temperature, but it is maintained
more consistently.
Even the wines themselves ideally require different storage temperatures,
which is why some people may have both a white and a red wine
refrigerator. Red wines should properly be stored at about 60
degrees, with whites cooler at around 48 degrees.
Not Cold Enough For Your Wine
Both temperatures, incidentally, are higher than what is recommended
in typical kitchen refrigerators used for food, which is about
40 degrees. White wine could conceivably manage for awhile in
a regular fridge, but reds would be too cold.
A wine cooler refrigerator is a better option. At least when
people have this type of wine fridge, they can set the temperature
at a median 54 degrees.
Two Different Temperature Zones
But even that compromise isn’t always necessary, because all
manufacturers make a type of wine cooler refrigerator with two
different temperature zones inside. Indeed, except for the smallest
wine cooling units, these dual zone models are quickly becoming
the norm.
Thus, both red and white wines can be stored near to their optimum
temperatures, with those conditions maintained much more successfully
than in a kitchen fridge. While many people opt to store wine
in their kitchen fridge and have it double as a wine bottle refrigerator,
it really doesn’t do any service to the wine itself to store it
that way.
About the Author:
Barry J Smallhorn has written a number of articles on cocktails
and food recipes including Seafood
Recipes,
Jerky Beef Meat Recipe, Make
Jerky, Food
Recipes, Fresh
Seafood, Tuna
Fish, Caviar,
Potato
Recipes, Caviar,
Organic
Gift Baskets, Wine
Storage Facility, Wine
Storage Racks, Custom
Wine Cellars.
Keep a lookout for more articles on this website.
Did You Know?
It can be really nice and quite decorative to have a beautiful
wrought iron rack on your countertop displaying your fabulous
collection of wines. And as long as you are simply displaying
them it works quite well.
But did you know that storing a wine out in the open exposes
it to conditions that can cause the flavors to change and deteriorate?
That is why so many ardent collectors either use wine cellars
or wine refrigerators to keep their collection. Wine cellars can
be a bit expensive to put in so the most logical choice are refrigerators.
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