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Cooking & Baking

TNDemo

(3,452 posts) Wed Jun 20, 2012, 01:20 PM Jun 2012

Puffy stuff in the freezer door.

I have an upright freezer and when I put stuff in plastic bags (with air expressed first) in the shallow door shelves, it puffs up with air. The stuff in the main part of the freezer does not do this. Is it the difference in temperature from opening the door or something else?

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Puffy stuff in the freezer door. (Original Post) TNDemo Jun 2012 OP

The door in my freezer is the least cold spot in the thing Warpy Jun 2012 #1

Can you see where the air exchanger is? EFerrari Jun 2012 #2

Warpy

(111,222 posts)

1. The door in my freezer is the least cold spot in the thing

Reply to TNDemo (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 02:57 PM

Jun 2012

so I use it for nuts and flours that need to be kept too cold to go rancid, but don't really need to be held as cold as frozen fish or poultry.

EFerrari

(163,986 posts)

2. Can you see where the air exchanger is?

Reply to TNDemo (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 07:15 PM

Jun 2012

That's probably not the actual term but the thingy that circulates air through the freezer in our frig is in the wall between the two compartments and a little forward from the door. That could do it.

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