Energy Saving Tips For Your Fridge Freezer

Energy Saving Tips For Your Fridge Freezer
Looking for fridge freezer energy saving advice? Watch on as we show you all our handy fridge freezer energy saving tips to help you keep your appliance efficient! In this video, Amy shares with you some energy-saving and maintenance tips when using your fridge freezer.

Fridge freezers can use a lot of energy over time… especially if you aren’t using them efficiently! Fortunately, we’re here with all our energy saving fridge freezer tips and advice to help you use your appliance more efficiently. With the fridge energy saving advice in this video, we’ll help you save money and energy at home so you can have a more cost-effective and eco-friendly fridge freezer that doesn’t drain your wallet!

Get your hands on a wide range of products to maintain your fridge freezer on the eSpares website:

Keep an eye on your door seals as an ineffective door seal will allow air to escape. If you need to replace the door seal, we have a how-to video to help you:

For all our other appliance energy saving advice videos, you can check out our entire appliance energy saving video playlist here:

Keep your fridge fresh too by tackling strange or unpleasant smells right away. Check out our handy video on how to fix a smelly fridge:

Want to skip straight to the information you need? Here's what we talk about in each part of our video:

0:00 Introducing the video
0:24 The importance of an energy-efficient fridge freezer
0:47 Placing the fridge freezer correctly
1:07 Why you need to leave space around the fridge freezer
1:39 Cleaning the back of the fridge freezer
2:14 Cleaning the inside of your fridge freezer
2:23 Suggested video: How to Fix a Smelly Fridge
2:25 The importance of setting the correct temperature
3:16 The role of door seals in energy efficiency
3:29 How to check if your door seals need replacing
3:43 Suggested video: How to Replace a Fridge Door Seal on a Neff Fridge
3:46 Why you should keep the doors closed whenever possible
4:03 Dealing with frost build-up
4:22 How to store cooked and leftover food
4:42 Suggested playlist: Appliance Energy Saving Tips

Thanks for watching!

[nicolenewman]

Good Advice which I’m quite sure lots of people wouldn’t know’. Such as any one unaware (teenager) leaving the door wide open 😂whilst getting a drink or worse drinking straight from the milk carton 😉 and leaving the door wide open

[simpleuser]

If I don't have a £5 note to check the door seals would a £10 note do instead? And if I don't have any cash on me would a piece of paper suffice? 😂😂😂

[RP-hcmp]

Basic stuff and some VERY BAD ADVICE!


Your refrigerator is DESIGNED to cool food! Put it in your refrigerator as soon as possible! Cooked food should never sit at room temperature for more than two hours (from finish cooking, consuming meal to cleaning-up). Letting it cool-down on the kitchen counter is inviting bacteria to begin growing, nasty ones like Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella, Clostridium perfringens, Campylobacter, Listeria monocytogenes, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Bacillus cereus, and Entero-pathogenic Escherichia coli (E. coli). These are blamed with causing 90 percent of the estimated 24 to 81 million cases of food-borne, diarrhea diseases occurring each year in the United States, costing between $5 billion and $17 billion in medical care and lost productivity. (Source: Texas A&M AgriLife Extension website, Professor Al B. Wagner, Jr. (rev. 2008) and many others)


A word of caution to this recommendation is regarding very large quantities of hot soup, chili or similar food items. Placing a large amount, like a full pot, into your refrigerator can raise the temperature inside your refrigerator, perhaps making it unsafe for foods already stored there, so chill a large pot of food in the sink with water and ice to get the temperature down, but no longer than two hours. (Source: USDA and Michigan State University Extension website, 2017)


Consider that large portions can be divided into smaller portions to cool more quickly. Help your food chill more quickly by not putting a lid on the food until it has cooled-down (the lid will slow the cooling process). If it is a left-over pot of soup or spaghetti, give it a stir after a half-hour or so of being in the refrigerator. Again, your food needs to be cooled quickly to help retard the growth of bacteria. The food poisoning danger zone is between 140 and 70 degrees. Remember, "Keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold!" and, "Most stomach 'flus' are food poisoning not flu virus (and most colds are allergies)."


A useful tip omitted from the list is not to overload your refrigerator; it needs airflow to work properly and economically!


Stay healthy!