• lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    Real easy answer: keeping a fridge cool during a very hot summer outside requires a more powerful cooling system. Instead most people have a powerful AC since you want the house cool anyway, with a cheaper fridge cooling system

    The reverse is also true. You wouldnt want your fridge to require a heater installed in it to keep your food from freezing in esspecially cold winters

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      5 days ago

      Mucki said in winter.
      To your second point, if I can deduce by the feddit.org that Mucki is in Germany, the winter outside temp will swing between -5° and +10°. The isolation of the fridge might be enough. But I sometimes put a stew or soup just outside on the balcony without a fridge.

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        5 days ago

        We have only very few days where we have extreme icecoldness around. It’s a moderate climate. I never monitored how much less power it uses outside than inside… But It stricked me that the cooling cycles are much shorter in winter after I had put it outside.