Basically the title: If I leave the freezer door slightly open it seems to be “more frozen” than before – big chunks of ice on everything, stuff frozen together. Why is that? The food can go bad in this state but it LOOKS colder (I know this is stupid). In my mind it should just melt and warm up 🤷🏻♀️
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A tidbit I didn’t see anyone explain, is that cold air holds very little moisture, so normally the inside of the freezer would be essentially dry, any moisture that was in there having frozen at some point.
Then, when you let warm air in, there’s a whole new load of moisture that gets to freeze, therefore more ice.
(This next bit is more of an assumption)
While it’s open, the freezer is still trying to run, so ice may form as the air gets cold, then the cold air gets replaced by warmer air, and it just kinda continues until the freezer cant keep up anymore.
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