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Summary: Ever have food in your fridge too cold or not cold enough? A household appliance expert gives tips on the correct settings for your refrigerator and freezer in this free household electronics video.
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Tony Ramirez Electronics and media guru Tony Ramirez is known among his friends, family, and clients as "Inspector Gadget." His love for new technologies aids in his abili... read more
OK. Now I'm going to talk a little bit about the refrigerator settings, of course, on your refrigerator. Refrigerator. So, what I did right now, is I actually took everything out of the top shelf. Usually these settings are either by the door, or farther back into the actual refrigerator. So, what we have, is we have two things up here. We have the one on the left, is actually the freezer control, and the one on the right, is actually the refrigerator control. So, what these are, is in this case, they're two knobs, excuse me, it's actually a slider, that we can slide all the way to cold, which will just make the freezer cold, but not its coldest. If we flip it, slide it, excuse me slide it, all the way to the other side, it will actually make the freezer its coldest. This is a...it really depends on how you're going to have things frozen. If you know you're going to have frozen meats, frozen foods for a long time, and you want them to be colder. You'll go ahead and flip this all the way over. Of course, this will use a lot more electricity to keep your freezer as freezing as is possible. So, in this one, the slider right in the middle, is actually its initial settings. So this is a manufacturer's settings, if you will. So, and then on the right, it's the same exact thing. We can slide all the way to the right for it to be our coldest. And this will make the refrigerator actually pretty close to a freezer. So, if you don't want to be freezing anything in your refrigerator, don't have it that far over. You can actually freeze your butter, or freeze your drinks that you have, especially on the top shelf, if that's where your fan is. And then if you flip it all the way to the left side, it will actually make your refrigerator just cool, not necessarily cold. In this specific unit, we can go all the way to the left to this setting right here, and it will actually shut off your refrigerator. We'll say if anything is actually wrong with it, you don't want it to be wasting electricity. You can go ahead and flip it off completely. So, those are your basic settings for your refrigerator and your freezer. It's pretty self-explanatory, some of them will be a dial with numbers on it. The higher the number, usually the colder it is, the lower the number, the warmer, if you will, it is. And that's pretty much it. These are pretty much, pretty simple. If you want to save a little bit of electricity, go ahead and put it on the initial settings. Those are probably the standard for temperature and power consumption. But, that's using and setting up your refrigerator.