Prevent freezer burn by learning this essential appliance maintenance. iStock / Getty Images Each time you open your freezer, water vapor can enter, where it's quickly frozen. Over time, this can ...

A manual chest freezer is a durable, and generally affordable option to preserve food or store convenient freezer meals. But over time, frost buildup can affect its efficiency. Defrosting your chest ...

Excessive frost or ice forming on the ceiling, walls, floors, and product of a walk-in freezer is not an uncommon problem technicians are asked to resolve. Although this issue may not be affecting the ...

In my column in the June 6 issue of The NEWS, I discussed the problem of frozen evaporator coils in walk-in freezers and specifically focused on defrost cycle termination. In this column, I want to ...

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. It’s nearly impossible to keep a freezer 100% ...

1. The heating wire inside the defrost heater tube in refrigerators/freezer/unit cooler has burned out, or the connection terminals are loose or fallen off. 2. The ...

Fran scrutinises over 100 fridges, freezers and fridge freezers a year, to help you know what's hot, and what's – thankfully – not. In this article Why should you defrost your fridge freezer? How to ...

Nothing puts a damper on a morning like having to dig through the ice planet of Hoth to get to your frozen waffles. Unruly frost is usually caused when air from outside somehow enters the freezer. So ...

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Fran scrutinises over 100 fridges, freezers and fridge freezers a year, to help you know what's hot, and what's – thankfully – not. In this article Why should you defrost your fridge freezer? How to ...