Last week I was walking down my street when I noticed a weird set-up in my neighbor’s front “yard.” (Not really a yard, just a small span of concrete). It appears to be some kind of garden storage unit jury-rigged with an air conditioner. Photos:
Some notes:
The unit is not connected to the house in any way. (You can’t quite see that in the photos, but I looked). The A/C is solely for the box.
There are two little plastic pipes sticking out the front that you should be able to see if you zoom in.
The A/C is being powered by an extension cord running out of the house.
I live in the city, so this is extremely out of the norm for the neighborhood.
I’ve never met this neighbor and I’m not about to walk up to their house to ask. Don’t bother suggesting this course of action. Any ideas as to what this could be?
Also perhaps medications that have defined temperature requirements.
I wonder if the neighbor runs the air conditioner all day every day or just when they are expecting perishable deliveries.
I would have been more circumspect about the power cords/extension cords just to not make it quite so easy for a prankster or miscreants to cut them or disconnect the power just for funzies.
Your neighbor has rigged up a Vissani brand window air conditioner to it, presumably to keep it cool. That padlock would seem to indicate that deliveries aren’t the purpose.
I’m going to take a wild assed guess here, and say that your neighbor is trying to do some sort of aging/curing of meat/sausages in there- those two tubes sticking out probably have something to do with humidity.
I’m standing on the sidewalk in front of their house with a little bit of zoom in. It’s a very small front area, as I said. (Again, middle of the city here).
Not that this is impossible, but brewing requires a fairly steady temperature - ideally moderate to low. Lagers require a fridge, but ales, stout etc will give a decent result at room temp. But it really helps the “room temp” to be fairly low, so the beer gains flavour. Fast fermentation tends to be bland.
Similarly, in its solid form, bread, a couple of slow rises always tastes better than a single fast rise. You can make bread in one hour, or it can take 12+ hours. Beer is similar, though the timescale is weeks, rather than days.
Those evil shits lurk in the undergrowth and wait to bite. You can be lying on your beach chair, enjoying a gentle beer, when suddenly, you get that paranoid feeling you are being watched.
Devilishly hard to locate, but somewhere, under the scrub, is a penguin. Thirsty for blood, whether it be fish or human. It stares out of one eye, seeking for vulnerability. Penguins are predators, ready to attack at the first chance.
