OK, so you may all start to think I am fixated on appliances:
Door mount dispenser system. Compartments inside the fridge door, pour in your milk or juice or soda or water. Sealed inside the door so they stay cold and fresh. A series of spouts on the outside of the door allows you to get any beverage without opening the door. Viewfinder to keep an eye on the levels. A spot to note the expiry date of perishables. The internal compartments would be removeable for cleaning.
Add the same set-up for the front of the freezer door, for vodka and rum!
Yes some fridges have water spouts, but usually plumbed into the building.-- rbl, Mar 07 2002 Door-in-Door http://www.spenceri...llery/doorprog.htmlAn alternate solution to this problem [krelnik, Oct 04 2004] I like it. Stores should sell liquids in standard containers that fit. You could use non-refrigerated cabinet doors for warm liquids or powders. The standard containers would be convenient for auto chefs when they are available.-- tolly3, Mar 07 2002 No thanks. Cleaning them would be too much of a pain compared to the minimal hassle of actually opening a container.-- bookworm, Mar 07 2002 You could do this without the removable containers if you designed your spouts and brackets to fit standard beverage containers (most sodas come in 2 liter bottles, milk and juice in 1/2gal). Then there would be no cleaning issue because you'd just throw away the empty container, like normal.-- dana_renay, Mar 07 2002 Why stop with drinks. Ketchup, mustard, pudding, applesauce etc all squirts out. Beef jerky could even be loaded into a semi-auto magazine. Or better yet, load the bread, roast beef, cheese and mayo into sepatate containers and press the sandwich button and it shuffles them together and out pops a sandwich.-- dag, Mar 07 2002 freudian fridge? it would be more likely to say "lay off the ice cream", or "easy on the beer".-- rbl, Mar 07 2002 just a Freudian slip, mother, back on my diet tomorrow promise.-- po, Mar 07 2002 What exactly is the problem with opening the fridge door for ten seconds?-- angel, Mar 08 2002 Technology for the sake of technology can be fun! Of course we could just open the door, but just how much fun is that?-- rbl, Mar 08 2002 Actually, they sell 2.5 gallon cuboid plastic containers of water with a spout at the front bottom. Same with wine.
If refrigerator-ready containers were all made with the same height and width, all you'd need is little doors in your fridge to insert the container.
No cleaning required. Quite bakable.-- lumpy, Mar 08 2002 Too messy and complicated. If you're too lazy to dispense your liquids the old-fashioned way, you're too lazy to maintain a fridge full of dispenser liquids and their eventually filthy spouts and tubes and handles.-- horripilation, Nov 07 2002 Some newer refrigerators solve this problem another way, by putting a little "door in the door" that lets you get at the beverages (or other frequently-accessed items) without opening the entire refrigerator door. See link.-- krelnik, Nov 07 2002 Youre talking about a kitchen full of vending machines, basically. Or a roomful of vending machines squeezed into a single cabinet? You can buy most food items in individual serving portions ( a bit expensive, though.)-- whlanteigne, Jun 06 2003 random, halfbakery