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Frost my mug

c:\awesome — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:13:10 -0800

How can I make my beer mug as frosty as humanly possible? Sometimes you go out to a bar and they serve your beer in a mug so goddamn frosty, you wonder how you can replicate such a thing at home. Well, I have a beer mug -- pint size; it looks sorta like this -- and a freezer, but simply putting the mug in the freezer for a few days doesn't bring the frost level up to what you sometimes get from a bar.

Are there any tricks to making my mug extra frosty, or is the only solution a colder freezer?

Will a paper bag protect my potted plants (herbs and flowers) from frost?

geeky — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:26:14 -0800

Will a paper bag protect my potted plants (herbs and flowers) from frost? We've got a frost warning for tonight and of course, I've already planted all of my Spring herbs, veggies, and flowers. I've read that a bedsheet will work and I plan to use that with my herbs and tomatoes that are planted in a nice row on my deck. However, I have a couple of freestanding pots here and there (2 on the front porch, 3 more on the deck but separate from the others) that are too small for covering with a sheet. These pots are all small enough that I could easily fit an inverted paper bag over them without smushing the plants. Will a paper (grocery) bag protect them from frost, or should I use something else?

Are there differences between car ice scrapers?

wukkuan — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:03:14 -0800

Are there differences between car ice scrapers? The winter is fast approaching. I've already had to scrape frost off my car windows a couple of times. I am curious to know if anyone has found any ice scrapers which seem to be significantly better than others?

I live in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Snow isn't much of a problem, and ice isn't too common, but in the dead of winter there will be frost on my window almost every day. That is my prime target, frost.

Frost forming in a frost free refrigerator.

kingjoeshmoe — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:41:56 -0800

Anyone know much about refrigerator repair? Frost is forming right around the ice tray on a frost free refrigerator. Easy fix, or do I call in the repairman? I have one of those side by side refrigerator freezers with an ice maker and water dispenser built in. Just about underneath, and to the front of the ice tray, frost has started forming. If left alone, it keeps growing and getting more solid. My freezer is supposed to be frost free, and until recently that was true. Frost also doesn't seem to be appearing anywhere else in the freezer.

The only thing that has changed recently with the freezer is I changed the water filter several months ago. I think there was at least a month gap between that and this frost growth though (I'm not the most perceptive person, so that could be wrong). I've already tried removing the ice tray and letting it melt. Frost comes back when I replace the ice tray. Also, though I'm not sure, frost may be forming even when it's not there. It's hard to tell because it happens slowly. Oh, and the area around this doesn't seem super packed in or anything.

So, can you help me?

Stop the frost

qbxk — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:54:30 -0800

Frost Experts: how can i stop frost buildup on a window/door? on most mornings, the "screen door" style door (with it's winter glass panes in) gets a heavy layer of frost on it. to the point of being opaque. anybody know how to prevent this? the screen door is the outer door with an exterior door opening into the room. the gap between the two doors is a couple inches.

on an related-only-in-concept note, the INSIDE of the windshield of my car has been doing this too.

i'd like all my windows to remain completely transparent, please help.

anti-winter!

mustcatchmooseandsquirrel — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:57:01 -0800

I hate winter. How can I make the next four months better than they would be otherwise? The winter has always been cold and dreary, filled with bad things and stress and having to walk everywhere while freezing.

I already bought earmuffs. Other than that, how can I make this winter more enjoyable? [preferably very inexpensively.]

Frost Shock would be bad

cavalier — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:26:06 -0800

Dumb gardener filter: What can I do to help protect my big hibiscus plant from the frost tonight? This is the first frost all winter. I've been told to just throw a twin sized bed sheet over the whole plant. Is it that simple? I don't "garden" so much as pay a group to mow/edge/trim ever so often. I don't have much in the way of landscaping except for a big hulking hibiscus plant I like very much that's right by my front door. This is the first year since I've moved here that we are going to encounter frost temperatures -- yay Florida -- and I feel I should do something proactively to protect the hibiscus.

Googling the interweb tells me to buy a Frost Cloth -- that nobody seems to sell locally -- or short of that just throwing a bed sheet over the whole thing overnight.

Yes? No? Maybe? What can I work out considering I only have the major chains nearby (Home Depot, Lowes, etc), they don't have a different idea, and it's already after business hours?

What does Norway do to prevent frost-heave on its roads?

stokast — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:41:37 -0800

How do countries with long, cold winters deal with frost-heave in their roads? Is there a kind of frost-resistant road? Is it much more expensive?

Help me save my tree!

bh — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:22:37 -0800

Springfield Lemon Tree Filter: I have a Meyer lemon tree which was subjected to very cold temperatures last month. I was able to get it inside, but it spent almost a week outside, with temperatures in the low twenties (F). All of the leaves have dried up, and most have now fallen off. No new leaves have grown. I've had this tree for about six years, and it was a few years old when I purchased it. I'd very much like to save it.

It is in an extremely oversized pot, which I thought would help shield it from the cold, but apparently it wasn't enough. At the very least, I'd like to be able to save the roots, even if I have to graft another tree to the trunk. Any ideas?