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[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I hate double doors, when you shut ours to quickly, the escaping air will pop open the freezer door just slightly... it's such a shit design.

[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's an inferior technology.

The double doors have to seal together in the center, there's a flap (called an articulating mullion) that swings when you close the door and creates the seal between the doors from the inside of the fridge.

But there are two problems: the force of swinging the flap stops the door's path and blocks it from closing if it's misaligned at all (or the seal is misaligned, or loose, or cheap), and it's attached to one door making one side easier to close than the other.

It makes for a more finicky design.

You can improve the reliability of your fridge closing by organizing the items you pull out the most to the side without the mullion attached.

[-] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I like that I can have a big fridge without needing space for a huge door to swing out.

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Been there, done that, but it was a double door (top and bottom halves) fridge. We constantly had this problem.

[-] criticon@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

My single door fridge does this 🤷

[-] Catoblepas 2 points 1 year ago

Ours does too, it's about 12 years old and started not closing properly a few years ago. We trouble shooted it, tried a bunch of fixes to make it seal properly that didn't work, then gave up and got a child fridge lock for like $15 to just hold it shut. Works perfectly.

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