On occasion, friends have asked why I keep a rubber chicken in my refrigerator.
I counter this with a question of my own, “Where else would you keep it?” So far, nobody has come up with an adequate response. After all, you don’t want it to go bad.
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A better question (knowing you as I do): Why is there coffee in your refrigerator?
I’d keep it in the icebox. The refrigerator isn’t cold enough for the chicken. Keeping it in the refrigerator you run the risk of it thawing, and regaining consciousness. And then you might have an angry, undead, rubber chicken on your hands. Not a good situation. I’m sure I’ve read a news story about this somewhere. You should keep it in the icebox.
I would leave it in the rubber chicken coop, at least until I was ready to cut its head off and pluck it to make dinner.
Natasha says she would rather leave it a free-range rubber chicken. I’m afraid she’s got me there.
John: You’ve got the right general idea, but it turns out that although cryogenic suspension for most organic lifeforms requires temperatures more than 100 degrees below freezing on the Centigrade scale, the correct temperature for cryogenic storage of a rubber chicken is just a few degrees above freezing.
You’re quite right about the risks associated with the temperature rising (and it’s for this reason that my fridge has redundant thermal sensors, a diesel backup generator and reinforced steel doors), but it’s a very delicate balance. If the temperature in fridge should fall too low, I could conceivably find myself face to face with the abominable snow chicken.
Boris: On the whole, I’d tend to agree with Natasha about free-range rubber chickens. Sometimes though, life presents you with a non-living rubber chicken and you just have to make the best of it.