Res fridge blowing warm air
After I bought a 2-zone fridge thermometer I noticed how strange res fridge works. When it starts cycling - sometimes, not always - it blows warm air in both fridge and freezer compartment, for a m...
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Almot wrote:Gdetrailer wrote:
It is possible that some fridges may simply run the heater with compressor off but have the fan on for a short defrost cycle.
Seems to be the case. I'm still not happy with freezer temp swings. If it were swinging while staying below 0F all the time, this is one thing, but it swings from -3 to +6. This is block of ice, not just the air. A separate designated freezer would've solved the problem I guess.
I don't think having the probe inside the ice in a freezer works as well as probe in water in the fridge. Using water in the fridge is about slowing down the the temperature swing of your digital thermometer.
You will still get temperature swings recorded even if the probe is in a solid block of ice.. So basically you are still reading the air temp and the ice may be just changing the speed of the reading a bit.
As long as the freezer is delivering an average of 0F or a bit below it is plenty cold for any food you put in there to stay properly frozen for proper long term freezer storage. At 0F your frozen foods will stay frozen.. If you were seeing 20F-30F in the freezer then I would be concerned.
The place to be concerned about is your fridge temps, 34F-40F is ideal and recommended for safe food storage.. I try to keep fridge temps as close to 32F as possible without freezing things.
