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Rod Speed

hr(bob) wrote
Rod Speed wrote
john hamilton wrote

We need to buy a freezer. The *chest* type is what we want with the lid on the top.

'Which' magazine recommends the Miele GT263 and for a
hundred pounds less the Zanussi ZFC 321 which comes in at £260.

The Miela has this feature which is suppose to expel the air inside, after the lid is closed.

They actually say it expels the FROST inside, not the air.

With less air trapped the theory is that it
will not need defrosting as often as normal.

Knowing that its just not easy to get an airtight seal, the suspicion
is that it might draw the air out but; it will creep back in again anyway.

Would anyone with experience of the Miele freezer know if its worth
paying the extra £100 for this 'de-frost' feature. In other words does
it work as a means of cutting out defrosting? Thanks for any advice.

That still doesn't make sense.

It does actually, tho its been dumbed down like with so many sales speils.

how do they expel the frost, scrape it off and then toss it out somehowwww???

Just replace the new air that has just entered when the lid was opened
with dry air that has been passed over the chiller coils so the frost
doesnt form inside the freezer where it gets deposited on the food etc.

Thats how the frost free system works.

They might mean a self-defrosting freezer, that would make some sense at least.

They arent self defrosting, they just ensure that the frost never forms inside the freezer,
the air deposits the mosture outside the freezer before it gets into the freezer.

Thats how any frost free system works.