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The best temperature for your fridge. This recommendation teeters above freezing no ice crystals or frozen foods here.

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While some refrigerators have separate control panels for the refrigerator and freezer most have a shared control panel.

What is the best temp for a refrigerator. Press the fridge temp button and go through the available temperatures until you find the 37 degrees fahrenheit setting. Some freezers let you change temperature in degrees while others have numbers for general temperature ranges. The same is true for your freezer.

Refrigerator temperature can vary slightly among the areas of the fridge. The perfect temperature range for a freezer is at or slightly below 0 f and never more than 2 f. The typical factory setting for whirlpool refrigerators is the recommended 37 f 3 c but temperatures on all refrigerators may need to be set higher or lower depending on your fridge s environment and other factors.

The ideal refrigerator temperature is between 35 f and 38 f. Keep the fridge full. To adjust the temperature of a kenmore refrigerator select the fridge temp and freezer temp buttons.

The refrigerator temperature can stay cooler longer and keep foods cooled best if the shelves and drawers are mostly full. You re not hugging the danger zone like you would be at 40 f 4 4 c and you re. Read on to get more answers to your temperature questions.

Hold these for a few seconds until the display beeps. Know your fridge s naturally coldest areas the ideal refrigerator temperature is 35 f 1 6 c. Proper refrigerator temperature is crucial to keeping items fresh.

But the temperature controls on many refrigerators only allow you to choose from a series of numbers say from 1 to 5 with 1 being the coldest and 5 the warmest. The ideal refrigerator temperature is at or below 40 f 4 c and your freezer temperature should be 0 f 18 c. Adjust the freezer settings as necessary to get the temperature in a safe range after making adjustments to either the freezer or refrigerator check the thermometer s temperature readout after five hours repeating the adjustment process until the reading is in the ideal range.

Yet below the danger zone. This guide will show you the ideal refrigerator temperature for a variety of foods. You may find it on the inner sides on the door or at the top center of either compartment.

While some refrigerators and freezers are outfitted with all the bells and whistles they might not have a built in thermometer. A full fridge is a happy fridge.