I'm not sure if I should be worried about what my fridge-freezer's temperatures are doing

[philpem@digipres.club]

I'm not sure if I should be worried about what my fridge-freezer's temperatures are doing.
It peaks at about 6C, bottoms out at 1C, and averages at about 4.4C.
The freezer has massive temperature cycles, minimum -25C, maximum -3C, averaging at about -13.4C.

Meanwhile the garage freezer sits at -15C +/- about 1C at most.

[ghalfacree@mastodon.social]

@philpem At a guess, your fridge-freezer is "frost free" and your garage freezer isn't.

The "frost free" ones blow (relatively) warm air around on a cycle in order to melt and evaporate frost, then go back to cooling before anything's ruined.

(Is the theory: I had to send a Fridgemaster back 'cos it failed at the last part and kept melting stuff in the freezer...)

[philpem@digipres.club]

@ghalfacree It's a Beko CDA543F - which is indeed frost-free. The thing that gets me is how harsh the temperature swings are. At some points I get an ice cream bar out and it's rock hard, at others it's about to melt.
With all that said, I've never had to defrost it...

[ghalfacree@mastodon.social]

@philpem I had a Beko fridge and freezer (separate, under-counter things) - and they were crap. The fridge especially.

The new fridge/freezer is a Hoover, of all brands to stick on one - and it's much better, swinging from -21 to -13°C on the freezer side during an automatic defrost cycle. No more melted lollies!

[andypiper@macaw.social]

@ghalfacree @philpem but does it have wifi 👀