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Fridges Fight Back — £4

FRIDGES FIGHT BACK

Softback, 148 x 210 mm
Published by Bompas & Parr Editions

Fridges Fight Back: The White Goods are Restless examines the darker side of food, and the facts against the context of fridges at the centre of home life.

The book launched with an exhibition with the same name, at KK Outlet Shoreditch.

The exhibition and booklet cheekily subverted the iconic status that fridges have attained in recent years, having become socially desirable, indicators of wealth and revered in modern kitchens, no longer hidden behind cupboard fascias but assuming pride of place as the most monolithic and aspirational of white goods. Across Britain, it’s thought 855 fires were reported to have been started by fridge-freezers between 2011 and 2014, accounting for 7 per cent of fires caused by electrical products.

The book - printed in a limited edition of 150 - has been written in collaboration with the London Fire Brigade, which collects a huge amount of statistics relating to fried-freezer fires. They say fridge fires can burn as hot as 600-degrees Celcius, generating huge amounts of thick black smoke and toxic gases that burn your respiratory system. The cause of most such fires is where the increasingly complex electronics in modern fridges fail and where there is insufficient insulation to prevent an electrical arc igniting fridge insulation and/or coolant – both are highly inflammable.

“A fridge is packed with easily ignitable fuel,” says the Brigade’s Head of fire investigation Charlie Pugsley. “It’s almost like having a can of petrol in your house."

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