Inside the freezer ...

[gkainz]

So, does anyone know just what the designed intent of the racks, compartments or whatever you might call them inside the door of my Dometic freezer? Big enough to take up space, too small to hold anything practical that I've tried to put in them.

[MEXICOWANDERER]

No more vertical freezers for me. Ever. Zip.

I once performed a temperature gain test on a vertical freezer. Opening the door twice for 10-seconds each event equaled, opening a chest freezer door 14-times at 25 seconds (I had to vary the event-timing to make the comparisons equivalent).

Yeah I know about the "won't fit - wasted space" quandary in an RV. But I overlaid insulation on the freezer. 2" everywhere except where I had to shoot foam. The freezer maintains a reliable -11F. The girls love ice-cream but screaming occurs when the cold induces a sinus headache. The refrigerator with circulation fans (2) maintains 36F. A sopping wet towel with chlorine bleach drops added draped over top the vegetables in the bin keeps lettuce and celery snapping fresh for many days.

-11F ice cubes snap and pop when liquid is poured over them. I keep thick glass mugs in the freezer and man oh man lemonade and iced tea burns all the way down.

[GMandJM]

jplante4 wrote:
Fill the can dispenser with these.

There should be a five-second rule for that:

Anything that falls out of the freezer and onto the floor has to be mixed up and drank right away.

[jplante4]

Fill the can dispenser with these.

[GMandJM]

But if you turned the door up-side-down, wouldn't all the juice cans fall out? 😉

[Chris_Bryant]

The lugs on the upper right are for if the door is turned upside-down, to hold the shelf.
You really don't want all that much weight on the doors, so small shelves are a good thing.

[wa8yxm]

For the extra room I put in an Extra freezer (Engel 12/120 volt job draws a great whomping 36 watts when running.. right, that's about the same as a dual bulb 1141 light fixture of which I have 5 or 6 or two of the single bulb version of which I have a bunch more.. in short.. NOT MUCH POWER)

[Old-Biscuit]

We have same on our Dometic freezer door

Left one we used for frozen concentrate....apple, orange, daiquiri, mojito etc.
Right one (we had 2 ) used for frozen peas, corn, carrots and/or blue ice paks

Still ended up with plenty room in freezer on shelves for weeks worth of meats etc.

[IAMICHABOD]

I found them pretty useless so I took them out and now I can put larger items on the shelves in the freezer.

[downtheroad]

Obviously the right one is designed for this...

[GMandJM]

Isn't there supposed to be a second shelf/tray on the upper right?

I think our ViewFinder came with one, but we took it out to put in our tall trash container.

[craftyfox]

I also use the left one for Blue Ice pacs..the right one for what ever I have in large plastic sacks at the time. The left one has been used for smaller plastic sacks ie pepperoni slices etc. in the past. "Necessity is the mother of invention"!

[wa8yxm]

Left one is a can dispenser. Frozen OJ or Apple Juice cans (standard size) might fitm,, Don't know.

Right one holds Yeast in my RV... I bake my own bread and buy yeast in a fairly large bag, transfer some to a jar (Which goes in the fridge) the rest is frozen.. I also have been known to stack re-freezable "Ice Packs" (Blue Ice or equal) in them (Polar Packs) I get a couple of those every quarter after all.

[MEXICOWANDERER]

You should get about 20X the sum total of brain matter easily into those compartments. The brain matter of the idiots who design gas absorbsion refrigerators. Yeah technology! Like the center of the steering wheel electric pushbutton gear selector on the '59 Edsel.

This and 9,001 other points of dubious manufacturer elucidation caused me to put forth the effort of creating my own RV.

You have my sympathy.

[GMandJM]

I asked the salesman about the same thing when we had our ViewFinder. He said the one of the left was for canned juice (load from the top and take from the bottom.) Never tried it though.

The one on the right we put a container with a plastic bag inside and used it to hold our "wet trash" until we could make a run to the Dumpster. (tea bags, coffee grounds, etc.)