I’ve got light bulbs outside my home that are switched on and off at all hours, even in -11 degree temperatures. I’ve got appliance bulbs in my oven that stay lit at 550 degrees. So, a temperature excuse cannot be used for my question: Why is there never a light in the freezer compartment of a refrigerator?
I have an Amana fridge/freezer, and the freezer does have a light in it. This is the first one I’ve had like that, though.
Vlad/Igor
A guess:
In most fridges, the freezer part is up top. In most kitchens, the ligt comes from the middle of the ceiling, or frmo windows that are at about the same height or higher than the freezer compartment.
Because the fridge part is down low, theinterior is shaded by both the roof it the fridge compartment and the body of the person bending standing in front of it.
The freezer compartment, on the other hand, has more access to light because it’s at less of an angle from the ceiling fixture, and because the hungry person isn’t standing in front of it - most people only block light to the freezer compartment with their head.
So you can see into it better in many cases, and it’s not worth the expense of wiring another light in there, nor the loss of space in the freezer compartment.
Or something.
I know you this isn’t IMHO but our freezer also has a light in it, but it is a first for me too.
Our front loader washing machine has a light in it too, which is real handy.
I think the freezer compartment is usually shallower than the main compartment. At least, it is on mine.
Probably because it’d melt the food near it. Our freezer at least is usually pretty packed, so it’d end up being impossible to keep an even temperature. That’s my WAG, anyway.
i thought everyone learned the light goes out when you shut the door in like… second grade?
Yeah, apparently I’m stupid. I’ll shut up now . . .
An interesting theory, how do you propose to prove this theory?
What do you think little sisters are for?
My own thoughts are that the refridgerator light is in a superpositon of ‘on’ and off’ whilst the door is closed which makes your suggestion a variation on the ‘Wigner’s friend’ thought experiment.
I must admit that I haven’t actually placed my little sister in the fridge, as far as I can recall. I have the cat, and myself. Never the cat and myself, though.
The Canadians are doing quantuum refridgerator research: Schrödinger’s Fridge.
