The narrative “Defrosting the Freezer: From Novelty to Convenience” by Shove and Southerton scrutinize the role of freezers not only as regular household appliance but also its socio technical evolution as technologies grow to meet people’s escalating demands. Freezer’s history was dissected by the authors into three parts starting on how it was originally introduce into British homes as storage of food to a machine for expedience.
Freezers, not only referring to those found in Britain, have become the one of the most widely used appliances in every kitchen. The emergence of technologically-prepared food like ready-to-eat ones such as frozen pizza led to the requirement of freezer in every home. This is to provide avenues for the people in fast-paced technology rush. It is factual that freezer is an important necessity in every home and somehow every human life depends on it, and to suggest that it rules human lives is not just a mere exaggeration.Devices that give convenience often make the users become lazier, although it is relatively acceptable in a country having all the modernity in life. With this scenario, it only proves that dependency to such technology exemplify that man revolve to his life to a machine and eventually ruling his world by providing handiness.
It is an eye-opener to realize what an ordinary household appliance has done to human race and what it will do in the future.Freezer endows us with all the convenience form its invention up until the present. Its numerous forms reflect the ingenuity of the people who built it and the social background of the users are also reflected depending on what kind of freezer they use. No matter what the freezer would look like, what its function and how it would be treated by its users in the future, its bequest to course of the world will be “frozen” in the history.
