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When you open the chest freezer, you don't have cold air "spilling" out of it. It remains in the chest. On the other hand, when you open a freezer that has a
by shagie 2y ago
When you open the chest freezer, you don't have cold air "spilling" out of it. It remains in the chest.
On the other hand, when you open a freezer that has a door on the front, a substantial portion of the cold air spills out of it.
When freezers are coupled with refrigerators, the way that many of them work is by having the freezer air descend into the refrigerator through baffles (which again, makes the freezer work to cool the air that was exchanged with the refrigerator).
- Scoundreller 2y agoMost of the cold is in the solids and liquids though. That wonderful feeling of the cool gas leaking out leads people to overestimate how much cold falls out. Some more modern fridges/freezers halt the compressor/blower when the door is open which probably accomplishes more savings.
- robocat 2y agoI presume that turning over the air probably causes more icing in the freezer. Does a chest freezer have less of a problem with icing? And are they easier to deice? Modern freezers have automatic defrosting systems so maybe moot...
- Arrath 2y agoIt is kind of neat to watch the frost ring descend from the top of the chest freezer lower and lower along the walls. It is pretty easy to scrape off, too.