I’m curious about the really old ice boxes, but I was really wondering about the ones from the 1800s that relied on coolant and some form of evaporation.
I can’t really picture how old is physics work without electricity.
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Maybe you would like to have a look a this (cool) website [History of Refrigeration and Refrigerators](http://www.historyofrefrigeration.com/)
The idea for the refrigerator was invented back in 1755 by William Cullen who designed a machine that had a pump and a container of diethyl ether. It wasn’t really useable but it is the basis for modern refrigeration.
And in addition to the other (correct) responses there were also many different behaviours.
Food was often either preserved or left growing/alive till needed. Food was bottled, dried, salted. Things like bacon, salami were ways of storing food.
Meet safes were built into the outside of the south side of houses (presumably north in the other hemisphere) so it was a bit cooler and had fly-screened ventilation. Meet only last a couple days in them in summer and the fly screening was there major benefit.
The pastry on pies was originally a way of preserving food and apparently the predecessor yo pasty eas often not eaten. I think fruit pies are a later idea.
Ice, Big fucking blocks of ice transported across the country, and then the other half of the year is winter, so y’know. free ice.
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