Initial Survey

How old are you?

Under 18
0 (0.0%)  18 – 24

31 (83.8%)

25 – 30
5 (13.5%)

31 – 40
1 (2.7%)

41 – 50
0 (0.0%)

51 – 60
0 (0.0%)

Over 60
0 (0.0%)

What is your employment status?

Student
17 (45.9%)  

Unemployed
3 (8.1%)

Employed
17 (45.9%)

Retired
0 (0.0%)

How many people live in your house?

1
3 (8.1%)  

2
7 (18.9%)

3
8 (21.6%)

4
10 (27.0%)

5
8 (21.6%)

More than 5
1 (2.7%)

What problems do you have with your fridge? (if more space is needed, use a comment)

• It’s too cold sometimes so my food freezes.
• Keeping the icemaker line filter attached
• The milk was frozen this morning! >:O Also, the doors aren’t magnetic, just the side. What’s with that?!
• it’s not big enough to accomodate 5 people. this is especially true for the freezer.
• It makes loud noises & sometimes you have to slam the door for it to close right.
• The door not shutting and a lack of alarm to tell us
• it needs cleaning and the top shelf is too high for me
• Keeps going off when the power meter runs out
• the door shelf has fallenapart
• A Jehovah’s Witness keeps rotting food in it
• Overstocking, out of date food
• none as of yet
• Not enough space for upright stuff (bottles, etc); not enough compartments to stop bowls being knocked over (bowls, etc);
• Not enough room! Stuff goes off all the time!!
• It is too small, the space is not well organized, and it smells funny.
• forgetting about things in it so they go off/you buy more then realise you already have the stuff.
• Not big enough, sometimes water collects on the bottom
• The light inside doesn’t work
• Difficulkties in estimating amount of space, always buy slightly too much food to fit comfortably
• too cold in some places, hard to see everything in it
• people put meat on top of my fruit and vegetables, and it drips- urgh! not enough space for bottles/cartons.
• It works well enough, but is filthy.
• I think it works fine, really.
• The light is always broken, anything near the back gets frozen, and it is WAY too small
• It freezes stuff
• it leaks also smells
• None
• there’s the main fridge which is the average size for the upper compartment on an upright fridgefreezer. Except half the freezer area is a damn fridge drawer for the salad >.
• Too small, food gets lost at back, freezer box frosts up too quickly
• it’s too easy to knock the temperature knob and then your lettuce freezes!!!
• Dad keeps eating everything.
• None except space.
• It freezes at the top when it shouldn’t…
• Possibly more space
• lack space, unidentified items usualy green or brown

What addied functionality would you like in a new fridge? (if more space is needed, use a comment)

• Tells me when food is about to go off.
• A way to monitor the status of the water filter, and a way to remove it without moving the fridge
• larger meat drawer, less wasted space BETWEEN drawers.
• um.. if things are too close to the back of the fridge they get frozen. aside from space this is the only problem.
• I would like my fridge to be environmentally friendly and to shoot lasers.
• A reminder for best before dates
•  i want one of those huge fridges with double doors, all fresh and shiny
• A built in uninterruptable power supply
• unbreakable shelves
• A sensor to detect abandoned items
• Diet counter
• possibly just more space
• Standy-up space, compartments, some sort of dranage facility so gunk gathers somethere easy to reach & clean, internal thermometer,
• TV in the front for food-porn.
• larger, with more adjustable shelving to accomodate large drink containers etc.
• not sure
• More space for fruit juice cartons
• It should tell me what I can’t see at the back
• I want a fridge that can tell me how much stuff to buy without running out of space
• Strip lighting at the back to increase visibility might be good…
• calorie counting according to what enters and comes out of fridge…:)
• I am not sure
• Hrm. I think more specific compartments, like I have a meat/cheese drawer, and you can choose which you want in there. There should just be a meat one and a cheese one.
• Maybe a fridge that warns you 1 or 2 days before something is going to go off.
• Ice maker
• A reliable temperature gauge
• no leaking. extractor fan. FREE FOOD.
• Tell me when the milk is off
• Accurate temperature controls. Indicators or whether moving dial/pressing buttons is making it colder/warmer (not just changing numbers! – like – is 1 the coldest setting, or least intense cold setting)
• easier to clean somehow?!
• Better inside-door shelves.
• Drawers instead of shelves
• A brighter light
• food tagged as it goes in so you knows who owns it

How much food per week is thrown out by your household? (estimate cost)

• £10
• Less than 20 dollars
• Not actually that much as far as I know. We have friends-of-siblings who come eat anything we don’t.
• it’s mostly just bread. although one of my housemates has a habit of leaving food in the fridge for months.
• $30
• £5
• anything that’s gone mouldy, a couple of pieces of fruit and occaionally the end of a loaf of bread. so maybe about £1
• 1 carton milk. Because laura buys milk every week and then dissapears till the week after. Nobody knows why.
• bugger all, cost maybe 20p
• £20
• Mr Goff, around £15 a week. The rest of us are good. He is a waster
• £10
• £5
•  £5
•  $20
• £10
• £10?? I’m not really sure, sorry
• Zero
• £2.00
• Almost none (some cold gravy and a loaf of bread in 5 months) – approx 2p
• £10?
• Not all that much, we tend to eat it all before it goes bad.
• Not much — we eat a lot of leftovers and I’ve learned to cook for 2.
• £15
•  very little £2-3
• £1-3
• god…lots. about £50 worth? Frankie is the worst
• £5
• £5
• £7
• £3 at most
• I… don’t really keep track. >_>
• Almost none.
• ~£1
• about a fivers worth
• £5

How would you rate your diet?

Awful
1 (2.7%)  

Bad
5 (13.5%)

Ok
19 (51.4%)

Good
9 (24.3%)

Excellent
3 (8.1%)

On a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is good, how would you rate your competance in the kitchen?

Which of these features would you like to see in your fridge? 

Tells you when food is off
25 (71.4%)  

Tells you what needs to be disposed of before going on holiday
16 (45.7%)

Orders more food for you
10 (28.6%)

Suggests recipes
24 (68.6%)

Warns you of products you are allergic to
6 (17.1%)

Gives you calendar reminders (eg birthdays – so you can get cake)
10 (28.6%)

Tells you when something has run out
27 (77.1%)

Speaks with Arnold Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice
12 (34.3%)

Runs SkyNet
9 (25.7%)

Other (leave comment)
3 (8.6%)