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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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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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.