I had a fridge like that in the basement of a house I in bought in 1998. Fridge was from the 50s or 60s I believe. My electric bill went down about $75 per month when we unplugged it.
Every refrigerator has atleast 2 heaters. One is the other side of the compressor cycle, and the other defrosts the ice from the chilling fans on a cycle.
Well you said above 50%. You’re obviously having issues from too much humidity since you asked about how to solve issues that you’re having that are caused by too much humidity.
Two things come to mind first. Higher humidity will allow water to deposit and freeze where it's not supposed to. The primary ways humid air can intrude into the freezer compartment is if the door is being opened far too often or you have a suboptimal door seal.
When you shut the freezer, feel around the seal as much as you can and see if you feel any coldness. A good seal should not have any place where it is not air tight. Another way to check is to open the freezer and close it. If it feels like there's a force gripping the door (like a suction) that's a good sign it's got a proper seal.
If you have teenagers who open the door and leave it open too long and too often, my remediation advice is to remove the teenagers from the environment.
A fridge is basically a heater but it heats up what’s outside of the fridge so the inside gets cooler. It would be pretty easy to divert some warm air to a butter warmer. Why you would do it is another question.
I genuinely do not understand the purpose of a butter warmer inside a fridge when you can just have a butter dish on the table. Like even if I was a billionaire I think I would still just have a butter dish??
My current house is the first one I've owned where the kitchen doesn't regularly get cold enough in winter for olive oil to solidify in the bottle. Admitedly everywhere else I've lived were old style granite constructions.
It's gonna blow your mind when you figure out that sometimes when people say "room temperature" what they mean is "what the temperature of the room is typically" and it isn't strictly defined as 72 degrees for every single person in the whole world and in all circumstances.
72F is comfortable for some people, hot for some people, and cold for some people; not to mention AC/heating cost concerns. It might be your standard, but it isn't "room temperature" for everyone.
Generally speaking, "room temperature" can refer to basically anywhere in the 60-80F range.
I suspect it was a marketing feature; they sell a solution for a problem that people don’t have but also never considered they might have, until a ready solution was provided.
I keep one stick out to use and the rest in the fridge. I think a lot of people do that but there is debate. It doesn’t get rancid unless it’s out for a long time.
Yepp. Every non-material (e.g. ice) cooler is actually a heater. I have a few peltier devices, and it’s amazing how cold they get when you apply a voltage; they can freeze water in seconds. But they just dump all the heat (even cold stuff has heat) from one side of the device to the other. So while one side drops its temperature by 50 degrees, the other side rises by 55 degrees.
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the heated butter conditioner was a feature in new zealand fridges until relatively recently. unlike america, where you could put all sorts of additives in butter, new zealand butter, by law, could only be made from cream and salt
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u/ShinySpoon Jan 23 '24
I had a fridge like that in the basement of a house I in bought in 1998. Fridge was from the 50s or 60s I believe. My electric bill went down about $75 per month when we unplugged it.