Refrigerator is the most important discovery in the history of food and drink
Saturday, 15 September 2012 19:10
http://hainanwel.com/en/unusual-world/1 ... rator.html A group of 45 leading scientists of the Royal Society of Great Britain has named the TOP 20 of most important discoveries in the history of food and drink in the history of mankind. In the first place there was the refrigerator. Storage space for products that fill with ice, there were several thoUSAnd years ago. For Nero servants harvested on frozen ponds in the mountains of snow and ice. Southern Europe for a long time did not even know that snow and ice can be useful in the economy. The famous traveler and merchant Marco Polo after a long stay in China, wrote a book in which he described all the advantages of ice and snow. From the XVIII century container of pottery and porcelain bottles filled with wine, and then stacked on top of crushed ice. Kind of refrigerator served straight to the table. Russia has been widely used glaciers, which were a house, dug into the ground. Packed with a lot of snow and ice, covered with a thick slab, which was poured over the land and laid sod, a glacier allows you to store perishable foods for a long time. The first domestic electric refrigerator was made in 1913. As industrial refrigerators, it worked with the principle of the heat pump. Among other interesting inventions in the food industry of mankind, who are in the TOP 20, are: baking, roasting, selection, preservation, pasteurization, sterilization, cutlery, fishing net, bottle caps, microwave ovens.