How Does the Summer Heat Affect your Kitchen Appliances

 When the summer heat gets too high, your fridge, freezer, wine cooler, and cold-water tap are the kitchen appliances that suffer the most.

In this article, we look at how heat affects your appliances and what you can do about it.

In the UK, it can get very hot in the summer, which can make it hard for kitchen appliances to work. The fridge and freezer are good examples of this. All of your kitchen appliances should have temperature switches, so the first thing we'd suggest is turning down the temperature by one or two degrees, but not so much that you end up with ice particles that are hard to get rid of or cause you to have to defrost the fridge later. Some of the things you keep in the fridge could be kept in the freezer, like fruit that thaws quickly. When it comes to thawing, you should never leave items on your kitchen counter. Instead, let them thaw overnight in the fridge or in a bowl of cold water. No matter how tempting it may be to use heat to quickly defrost your food, it's not a good idea.

In the summer, it's easy to overfill kitchen appliances like freezers when you try to add more things like ice cubes, frozen fruit, and ice creams. The more things you put in the freezer, the harder it has to work to keep them frozen, so either turn the fridge temperature down a little or don't put too much in the freezer.

One easy way to keep your kitchen appliances from getting too hot in the summer is to keep the fridge door closed as much as possible. This may sound like a no-brainer, but try getting what you need before you open the door. If you leave the door open, hot air will come in, and the fridge will have to work hard to turn that hot air into cold air to keep your food from going bad.

You can choose from different classes of refrigeration, but these days, they also tell you the temperature range in which the kitchen appliance should work best. For example, a normal-class fridge works best when the temperature outside is between 16 and 32 degrees, and a tropical-class fridge works best when the temperature outside is between 18 and 43 degrees. Contact our team of experts today if you need more help choosing the right kitchen appliance for you this summer.

This article has tips for all kinds of fridges and freezers, including chest freezers, fridges and freezers that are built into one unit, and fridges and freezers made in the American style. It also has tips for wine coolers.

It's important to make sure that your fridge is following the advice of the Food Standards Association, which says that the best temperature for a fridge is between 3 and 5 degrees. Not doing this, especially in the summer, can lead to a lot of wasted food. Last year, 6.6 tonnes of food that was kept in fridges at home in the UK had to be thrown away. Make sure you don't add to that number this Summer.

We hope you liked this article about how the heat of summer can affect your kitchen appliances and that it gave you some good ideas to use this Summer. Thanks for reading. Now all we need is a long stretch of hot weather to see if what we've said above works. Have a good summer and take care of your kitchen appliances!