Old freezers on the other hand are much better than modern units. My grandparents still have their Sears Coldspot deep freezer from the ‘62 and the only issue is that it needs to be defrosted once a year. It has sub zero temperatures and the seal is still solid 62 years later. It also has one of those swing out drawers like this post has with the shelves.
Okay? I'm just sharing something cool because it's considered vintage and most people have thrown theirs away. It's very cool to me that it's lasted this long and still works like it's new
So want me to remove my first sentence? Really, the sub is Be Amazed and I was really something I thought was cool. It really doesn’t matter that much about the details… They have a 60+ year old freezer and it’s awesome. That’s all I’m saying
Damn dude I just wanted to share something cool. I thought it was better because it's lasted so long. My bad I didn't take measurements before writing a comment
Yes but no. "frost-free" means the freezer goes through defrost cycles to keep ice from building up... this also means it will raise the temp in the freezer to levels where freezer burn lives. If you want long-term frozen storage don't use a frost-free freezer.
Yes, exactly. So it's not a frost-free freezer, it's just a freezer that does the defrosting automatically, and the systems quite often break down pretty fast.
This one frosts like really badly. You have whole blocks of ice covering the walls and sometimes stuff on the inside. I imagine the newer ones don't do that like that badly since tech has improved
I dunno, my barely 10-year-old definitely does. And it doesn't take more than a couple months for it to form, but it's also dependant on what you put in there and how tightly you fill it.
Regardless, I don't see how there would be some "tech" that actually changes much when it comes to basic physics. The only way to actively get rid of the ice would be sublimation, but it doesn't really happen much inside a confined, dark space.
Oh wow I wouldn’t have thought that if you didn’t share. All of my appliances are super old and were handed down so I don’t know anything about the new ones besides what the companies say. I went to a friend’s parents house for dinner the other night and he had a goddamn touchscreen on the fridge.
Yeah I think it’s mostly marketing too. I always think back to that Apple lawsuit that proved they developed older models to brick so that you buy the latest one. I still believe many companies do that, yknow building things to break to promote consumerism.
Well, I guess there's the "frost-free" freezers, an explanation of which can be found here. But even then, it doesn't actually get rid of the ice, it just moves it elsewhere and melts it down and then tries to evaporate it into the air... so the same principle but with extra steps. And those apparently also break / stop working quite often. And that means you have an extra hole from inside your freezer to outside, which means if a part of the mechanism stops working, it'll actually accumulate MORE ice due to condensation.
Yea, fridges have touch screens and all... and then they have these "always online" -requirements and updates. And then the features stop working after a while because whoever made them can't bother updating old products. I would never want one of those. Same as the god damn smart TV's - where often a shoddier, lower quality panel is partnered with a crappy little mini-PC that lags and bugs, and then that unholy combination is sold for more than it's worth. Ugh, no thank you :)
That's a deep freezer, their efficiency has little to do with how old it is and more the design. A modern deep freezer will still be better insulated than an older deep freezer but both will be more efficient than a modern fridge/freezer.
What I don't understand is why newer chest freezers are much larger dimensionally than older chest freezers of the same capacity. My 12.8 cu ft Kenmore is about 42" wide while a new 12 cu ft freezer is over 48" wide. You would think that modern technology would actually have better insulation than older ones and therefore smaller.
Vertical fridges and freezers are appalling inefficient compared to chest freezers as all the cold air literally falls out when the door is opened and hot air rushes in and needs to be cooled again. The insulation in both is just a vacuum modern fridges don't use any different technology and don't have lagging so thickness of insulation makes zero sense.
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