- Happens every time. I crank up the heat in my home, lay the ice trays next to the heat outlet, and within 10 minutes, I have ice.
You jest.
But I remember when I was about 8 years old in the mid-1950s, we visited some relatives in a NM. They had a 'gas' refrigerator. I recall looking underneath, as the appliance had about 9" legs, and marveled at seeing the pilot light flickering and wondering how that translated in cold to preserve food.
It looked something like this, IIRC:
