My freezer door won’t fully shut, the freezer is inside the fridge (top compartment) – why is everything in said freezer extra frozen, I thought it would work the opposite
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Warmer air gets in and the moisture as well keeping the freezer running continuously thus more frost etc.
Two likely candidates .
1) The freezer can sense it’s “losing cold” so it’s running the “Cold making parts” more consistently. Yes, that cold is “leaving”, but in the 1 square foot around the cold making parts, it’s extra cold because it’s generating more cold more quickly.
2) Moisture from your kitchen is entering the freezer from the gap. Cold air can’t hold as much moisture as warm air so as the air chills it drops it’s moisture which forms a layer of ice on the walls and food inside the freezer. Although this doesn’t really do anything to ‘extra freeze’ the food, it does make everything look a lot more deeply frozen because we just associate being encasing in ice = super dooper cold.
Warmer air gets in and the moisture as well keeping the freezer running continuously thus more frost etc.
Warmer air gets in and the moisture as well keeping the freezer running continuously thus more frost etc.
Two likely candidates .
1) The freezer can sense it’s “losing cold” so it’s running the “Cold making parts” more consistently. Yes, that cold is “leaving”, but in the 1 square foot around the cold making parts, it’s extra cold because it’s generating more cold more quickly.
2) Moisture from your kitchen is entering the freezer from the gap. Cold air can’t hold as much moisture as warm air so as the air chills it drops it’s moisture which forms a layer of ice on the walls and food inside the freezer. Although this doesn’t really do anything to ‘extra freeze’ the food, it does make everything look a lot more deeply frozen because we just associate being encasing in ice = super dooper cold.
Two likely candidates .
1) The freezer can sense it’s “losing cold” so it’s running the “Cold making parts” more consistently. Yes, that cold is “leaving”, but in the 1 square foot around the cold making parts, it’s extra cold because it’s generating more cold more quickly.
2) Moisture from your kitchen is entering the freezer from the gap. Cold air can’t hold as much moisture as warm air so as the air chills it drops it’s moisture which forms a layer of ice on the walls and food inside the freezer. Although this doesn’t really do anything to ‘extra freeze’ the food, it does make everything look a lot more deeply frozen because we just associate being encasing in ice = super dooper cold.
In a fridge/freezer combination unit, the fridge is usually cooled by the cold air that leaks from the freezer. In a full-size fridge/freezer, there is an electronically controlled vent between the two. In a smaller fridge/freezer like yours, there may just be a single sensor in the freezer. So if the door between the two sections is not shut, more cold air is escaping the freezer compartment. The fridge/freezer is working extra hard to make up for it and keep the freezer compartment cold.
In a fridge/freezer combination unit, the fridge is usually cooled by the cold air that leaks from the freezer. In a full-size fridge/freezer, there is an electronically controlled vent between the two. In a smaller fridge/freezer like yours, there may just be a single sensor in the freezer. So if the door between the two sections is not shut, more cold air is escaping the freezer compartment. The fridge/freezer is working extra hard to make up for it and keep the freezer compartment cold.
In a fridge/freezer combination unit, the fridge is usually cooled by the cold air that leaks from the freezer. In a full-size fridge/freezer, there is an electronically controlled vent between the two. In a smaller fridge/freezer like yours, there may just be a single sensor in the freezer. So if the door between the two sections is not shut, more cold air is escaping the freezer compartment. The fridge/freezer is working extra hard to make up for it and keep the freezer compartment cold.
The freezers that I am familiar with work like this: a thermometer in the freezer tells it if it is cold enough. If it is not, the freezer works to drop the temperature. Leaving the door open causes cold air to be lost, forcing the freezer to work extra hard to drop the temp. This is terrible for the freezer’s life expectancy by the way.
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