As soon as it's hot, it feels like the fridge isn't cold enough!
This year, it was too hot, and the temperature soared to 35°C in the first two days. As soon as it's hot, I want to have a cold drink, but—
Set the same temperature to the refrigerator and it will feel cold in the winter and not cool enough in the summer.
Of course, I know that this subjective difference has a lot to do with the room temperature, which is hot in the summer, and it doesn't feel so cold when you touch a drink at the same temperature. So every time this time in previous years, I would reset the temperature of the refrigerator:
Turn down the set temperature of the refrigerator (especially the cold room) a little lower.
But some time ago, I was repairing the refrigerator, and the after-sales workers heard about my practice but said that I was doing it wrong. And it's not just "doing wrong", the original words of the worker are:
"You're just going back!"
The correct way to adjust the temperature of the refrigerator
The worker opened the refrigerator door of my house and pointed to a piece of paper on the wall of the refrigerator room to show me, and I learned about it for the first time▽
Here are some tips for tempering:
In summer, it should be slightly smaller than the middle range, in spring and autumn, it should be just the middle range, and in winter, it should be slightly larger than the middle range.
My refrigerator uses the screen to set the temperature directly, so I haven't understood what "mid-range" means. The worker explained to me that I knew:
In the past, refrigerators were all knob temperature adjustments, and the gear number needed to be selected. For example, the middle gear is 3, you should choose 4 gears in winter, 2 gears in summer, and 3 gears in spring and autumn.
The higher the number of gears, the lower the set temperature!
Therefore, if you change to a refrigerator like mine that directly sets the temperature, you have to change the gear to the temperature. The refrigerator compartment of my house can be adjusted between 2°C~80°C, and the intermediate temperature is 5°C.
It should be set higher than 5°C in summer, below 5°C in winter, and about 5°C in spring and autumn.
Turning up the temperature in the summer?!
I was so shocked when I saw this answer, why did the hotter the weather, the more I had to turn up the temperature of the refrigerator? I used to turn down the fridge because it wasn't cold enough, but now it seems that it's really reversed!
The worker also explained this problem to me:
In summer, due to the relatively high room temperature, on the one hand, it is not conducive to the heat dissipation of the refrigerator, resulting in the low refrigeration efficiency of the refrigerator. On the other hand, the temperature of the things put in the refrigerator is high, and the heat preservation of the refrigerator becomes poor, which leads to an increase in the workload of the refrigerator.
The combination of these two disadvantages results in a longer operating time of the refrigerator – longer working hours, so the power consumption increases, and the wear and tear on the compressor increases.
In order to reduce the burden on the refrigerator, the set temperature should be increased.
What should I do if the drink is not cold enough in the summer?
I'm good for the fridge, but who's good for me? I wanted to drink a cold drink in the summer, but now I have to give up for the life of the refrigerator, and I live too hard!
The worker told me that there is no need to be so pessimistic:
• The most recommended method is to add ice cubes to the drink. The ice comes from the freezer, and even if the temperature in the freezer is turned up, it will still feel cool in the summer. This is the most economical and has no effect on the life of the refrigerator.
• If you are in a hurry to drink cold drinks, you can also put the drinks in the freezer to cool down. By the same token, the temperature of the drink taken out of the freezer is absolutely satisfying. But you have to time it yourself, and the drink will not taste good if it freezes for a long time.
• Or there is a refrigerator with a variable temperature room, at which time you can use the variable temperature room. Reducing the temperature of the variable temperature separately does not put too much burden on the refrigerator due to the small space of the variable temperature room, even if the set temperature is low.
Why do you want to lower the temperature in winter?
Now the problem of summer is solved, but I still have a question about the temperature adjustment in winter: why turn up the temperature of the refrigerator when it is very cold outside in winter? At this time, you are not afraid of electricity?
The worker also gave me the answer:
In winter, the temperature is lowered because the temperature outside the refrigerator is even lower than the temperature inside the refrigerator!
Whether the refrigerator compressor works or not depends on the internal temperature of the refrigerator. If the set temperature is higher than the room temperature, the refrigerator will never start refrigeration. At this time, the refrigerator room is fine, and the temperature has reached anyway.
But the freezer can't – the room temperature hardly drops below 0°C, so the freezer will melt if it's not cooled.
Therefore, it is necessary to set a low temperature in winter to keep the refrigerator in working condition at all times.
But in the end, the worker added: now there is heating in the house in winter, and the room temperature will not fall below 10 °C. At this time, there is no need to strictly follow the "winter" temperature control method, just refer to the spring and autumn seasons.
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