Refrigerator/freezer - how cold do you like it?

mdaudioguy
mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
edited July 2011 in The Clubhouse
I never really thought much about this before, because I never had to...

So, I just got a new refrigerator, and of course, it's got a (seemingly) precise digital temperature adjustment. If you have one like this, what do you set yours at? Right now, I've got the refrigerator at 38F and the freezer at 0F... seems ok to me, but I'm curious what others do.
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited July 2011
    And, if you're a Coors Light drinker, what's Super Cold??? :confused:
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  • BuckeyeTim
    BuckeyeTim Posts: 483
    edited July 2011
    As cold as I can get without freezing things. (it's more for the beer than anything else)
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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    edited July 2011
    You must be one bored individual guy !!!! :biggrin:
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited July 2011
    decal wrote: »
    You must be one bored individual guy !!!! :biggrin:

    Sometimes when I'm bored, I eat. Then I go open the refrigerator door to see what's available. When I do that, I see the temperature displayed, and then I wonder...
    So, yes, boredom led me to this, but you read it! :tongue:
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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    edited July 2011
    Damned right I'm bored, that's why I come to this site !!!!!
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited July 2011
    Milk and beer must be ice cold.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited July 2011
    0 and 37 which is what my manufacturer recommended. I tried colder, milk and OJ started freezing, tried warmer and noticed drinks seemed too warm to me. I put on a power meter and over several weeks the energy cost was very close, maybe within a few dollars per year, don't remember the exact amount.
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  • dorourke07
    dorourke07 Posts: 298
    edited July 2011
    The health inspector for our daycare checks that the refrigerator is always between 35 and 40 and we have a back up thermometer in refrigerator which specifies the same range as safe. Hope that helps.
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,007
    edited July 2011
    madmax wrote: »
    0 and 37 which is what my manufacturer recommended. I tried colder, milk and OJ started freezing, tried warmer and noticed drinks seemed too warm to me. I put on a power meter and over several weeks the energy cost was very close, maybe within a few dollars per year, don't remember the exact amount.

    Same here it says right on the inside where we set the temp.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,413
    edited July 2011
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Milk and beer must be ice cold.

    yep so that if it was 1 degree colder ice would be forming
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    edited July 2011
    * freezer "should be" 0 degrees F / -20 degrees C

    * fridge "should be" 39 degrees F / 4 degrees C (the temperature at which water is densest; this is why ice floats - and none of us would exist today if it didn't)
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited July 2011
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    * (the temperature at which water is densest; this is why ice floats - and none of us would exist today if it didn't)

    I better turn mine up another two degrees then before we all cease to exist! :eek:
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    edited July 2011
    madmax wrote: »
    I better turn mine up another two degrees then before we all cease to exist! :eek:

    well... fortunately... the converse isn't true! :-)

    Water's amazing stuff...just amazing; really the stuff of life (as we know it).

    Back on topic: a little colder is OK - actually our fridge has digital readout thingamabobs in it and the freezer's about 1 deg F and the fridge 37, so I've got no room to talk!
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  • jgido759
    jgido759 Posts: 572
    edited July 2011
    My readout is on the outside control panel and my freezer reads -2 deg F and the fridge is +34 deg F.
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  • stuwee
    stuwee Posts: 1,508
    edited July 2011
    My Dad had an old Kelvinator from the 40's, with the pull sprung handle, it kept a perfect 32 1/2 degrees temp for beer storage, it bit the dust in the late 80's :frown:. Vintage is always better :cool:
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited July 2011
    stuwee wrote: »
    my dad had an old kelvinator from the 40's, with the pull sprung handle, it kept a perfect 32 1/2 degrees temp for beer storage, it bit the dust in the late 80's :frown:. Vintage is always better :cool:

    fyi.
    the freezing point (?c) of beer = (-0.42 ? a) + (0.04 ? e) + 0.2, where a is the percent of alcohol content by weight, and e is the original gravity of the wort (?plato). Therefore, each 1% increase in alcohol content lowers the freezing point by 0.42? c and each increase in gravity of 1? plato raises it by 0.04?c. Thus, no beer will freeze at -1?c, and products at higher alcohol concentrations (including high-gravity brews prior to dilution) will withstand even lower temperatures.
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited July 2011
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited July 2011
    I do that freezing trick with bottled water and soda. At the top of my freezer above the icemaker it just happens to be the perfect temperatue. Pull the drink out and tap on it and watch the slurpy form. I love drinks this way!
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited July 2011
    I keep our refridgerator very cold, almost near freezing and the other side is normal.
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