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Welcome clockworkchaos ! Nice to have someone around who agrees with me - at least once in awhile ;-)
Drop in whenever you have the time. But beware, you have stumbled into a site that can be addictive. Aloha.
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Thanks, wow. This is a lovely place you have here.
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Carpal Tunnel
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A general greeting and welcome to all of our recent newcomers; tickled to have you!
My thought is that defrost is like dial: it harks back to what had to be done in the past. Things in the freezer (including the freezer itself) got covered with frost and had to literally be defrosted; just as phones could only be dialed. Though we still use both words, the actuality of their meanings is getting harder and harder to find.
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stranger
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stranger
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Like Jackie I thought it might be a leftover from the days when refrigerators/freezers had a defrost cycle. Then I had my doubts and searched for +"frozen food" +tips +(defrost OR thaw) and scanning through the first 30 or so applicablle hits found the two words seldom appear in the same hit and there doesn't seem to be any pattern e.g. some say thaw in the microwave and others say defrost in the microwave. So, I returned to my first guess that "defrost" is an artifact of language that came with older appliances.
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