The Truth About Refrigerators

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The Truth About Refrigerators:

Lets think about how often you rely on ready access to fresh food. In the mornings you add milk to your coffee; maybe you grab yogurt and blueberries or some eggs to fry. You pack leftover roast chicken for lunch. Come dinnertime, you’re back at the refrigerator, unwrapping that nutty wedge of Parmesan and slicing off a pat of butter for your pasta.

Since having fresh dairy, meats, seafood, and produce on hand is essential for a healthy diet–or, at least, one that’s not just snack food or fast food all day long–it makes sense to store fresh foods in a refrigerator that’ll keep them at their peak for longer. Could your current refrigerator be doing a better job?

Refrigerators used to be called “iceboxes” for good reason, but keeping food fresh involves more than just keeping it cold, and technology has come a long way since then. Three things impact food freshness: humidity, temperature, and airflow. The food in your refrigerator should be treated differently than the food in your freezer (and it’s ideal that the air is never shared between the two).

Take a look at this helpful info-graphic of a Sub-Zero refrigerator. This is no mere icebox: Equipped to constantly balance temperature, humidity, and air quality, each refrigerator is designed to keep your food fresher longer. (Yes, that means you end up throwing less food away, too.)

The Truth About Refrigerators

So, The Truth About Refrigerators is – Even with the best refrigeration, foods don’t last forever. We’ve all had that sad experience of pulling a bag of browned herbs or petrified vegetables out of the refrigerator drawer, or wondering if the innocent-looking-but-somewhat-forgotten steak is still safe to enjoy. Minimize your paranoia and regret by following these five tips:

1) The coldest parts of your refrigerator (the lower drawers) are designed for produce, from peppers and kiwis to peas. But if you find yourself unable to cook often, choose produce like beets, carrots, onions, and apples: They’ll last anywhere from one month (apples) to five (carrots) when stored correctly in those cooler, higher humidity compartments.

2) Ethylene is a key ingredient in ripening–and over-ripening. Some fruits and vegetables produce ethylene, while others are ethylene-sensitive. Don’t place your ethylene-producing apples right next to your ethylene-sensitive bok choy, or your greens will turn before you have time to get out your wok.

3) Items like meat and fish last only a week, at best. If you know you’re not going to use them right away, store them in your freezer.

4) The door of the refrigerator is typically the warmest area, so be sure to store your least perishable items, like condiments, there.

5) Some items don’t belong in your refrigerator at all, including bananas, tomatoes, eggplants, garlic, ginger, jicama, and potatoes. Our advice? Just keep those out on the counter.

  • Does your refrigerator feel warm, even though you have it set to the coldest setting?
  • Do you smell a strange odor when you open your refrigerator door?
  • Is your fridge making loud or ‘strange’ noises?
  • Does your refrigerator sound like it’s ‘trying too hard’ to stay running or cycling more often than it should be?
  • Is there water leaking inside of or from your refrigerator?
  • Is their moisture or wetness in your refrigerator’s fresh food compartment?
  • Is the outside of the refrigerator sweating?

Contact us at (800) 440-8583 and we’ll send one of our trained refrigerator repair technicians to quickly diagnose and fix the problem.

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Sub-Zero and Wolf Appliances: Top Shelf Functionality and Seamless Design

Sub Zero Refrigerators and Wolf Appliances

The bottom line is that they are top-of-the-line for kitchen design and functionality with a reputation for performance, design, and dependability.

Seamless Integration

One of the best things about Sub-Zero and Wolf is the capability for seamless integration into a kitchen design. With built-in ovens, undercounter refrigeration, and integrated storage, these brands are made to fit into your lifestyle, not the other way around.

You are able to arrange your kitchen to optimize on storage and traffic flow, without the obstacle of bulky appliances in the wrong place.

And with their sleek, contemporary look, Sub-Zero and Wolf appliances will actually add to the contemporary feel of your cooking area, rather than distracting from it.

Functional Refrigeration

Sub-Zero offers top shelf refrigeration in classic designs. Refrigerators are available in full-size, built-in, integrated, and under-counter versions. Panels and stainless are options that give your appliance its custom look. A multitude of sizes and configurations are available to suit your specific taste and requirements.

Refrigerators and wine storage are outfitted with LED lighting, temperature control, ideal humidity, and purified air to keep food at optimum freshness.

Wolf Cooking

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Wolf offers a full line of cooking appliances to choose from including:

  • Built-in ovens
  • Cooktops and rangetops
  • Ranges
  • Coffee systems
  • Microwaves
  • Module Cooktops
  • Ventilation
  • Warming Drawers
  • Outdoor Grills

With such a selection of efficient, contemporary appliances, you probably won’t have to go anywhere else to meet your cooking needs. The Wolf Convection steam oven is designed to produce healthy, gourmet meals with minimal effort. Cooktops and rangetops offer the choice of gas, electric, or induction cooking.

Wolf’s integrated coffee systems keep counters clear while producing high quality coffee, espresso, and cappuccino to suit your refined tastes.

Wolf and Sub-zero offer plenty of resources on installation, usage, maintenance, and gourmet recipes specific to the Wolf oven.

There you have it.  If they ever need a repair, ACME Appliance Services is here for you.  Call us at (800) 440-8583

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Leak and Chilly Refrigerator Problems

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 Sub-Zero Refrigerator Repair in Beverly Hills, CA

Sub-Zero produces some of the highest quality refrigerators on the market but even its products are not immune to the dangers of a bit of damage. Whether it is caused by regular use, an electrical surge, or improper handling, appliances have problems. You can sort through these problems with the help of ACME Sub-Zero appliances repair Beverly Hills and a bit of handiwork on your part.

 

 Chilling Problems

If you find that your Sub-Zero refrigerator is producing a lot of excess frost or is building up ice when it really should not be then something is wrong. Before you do anything else fiddle with the cooling dial to see if that will help. If you have adjusted the temperature of your refrigerator and it is still acting oddly then it could be a technical problem. Check your door. It is not uncommon for the gaskets on refrigerator doors to break. Every time you open and close your refrigerator door you are putting strain on the gasket and eventually one may just blow out.
There are a number of ways to identify this as a problem. One method is to slip a strip of paper into your refrigerator door and to try to pull it out. If a gentle tug is all that it takes then your refrigerator door is not sealing properly. Another way is to put a bright flashlight into your refrigerator aimed at the refrigerator door. Turn out the lights to your kitchen and, turn on the flashlight, and close the refrigerator door. A broken door will allow for light to shine through.

The same space that is allowing the light to shine out of the door is letting cold air escape too. You might be thinking that a leak would cause your refrigerator to warm up rather than to cool down. The way that refrigerators and freezers work, the warmer that a refrigerator is, the colder the output it will circulate in order to keep things at an appropriate temperature. If it is heating more rapidly than it should be, then your refrigerator will overcompensate and chill your foods. Freezers do the exact same thing. Your solution to this problem is to order a new gasket and replace the current one or to have ACME Sub-Zero refrigerator repair Beverly Hills do it for you if you do not want to take apart your refrigerator door.

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 Leaky Refrigerators

If you have puddle problems outside of your refrigerator it can be coming from three different sources. First check your freezer to see if it is leaking water. If water is not spilling out of your freezer then check to see if there is ice pooling in your freezer and dripping into your refrigerator. If it is not that then that means it is the ice maker which is leaking.
If your freezer is leaking then there is not a lot that you can do on your own. It is a technical issue that you will should consult ACME Sub-Zero refrigerator repair Beverly Hills about to get fixed and working again.
Should the problem be that your refrigerator has a drip then that is being caused by a clog in your freezer’s defroster. You can fix this can turning off your refrigerator, opening the back panel, and cleaning out the defroster. The most common culprit is food or packaging becoming trapped inside of your freezer’s defroster. You can clean those out with a little bit of suction and a lot of patience. Sometimes there will just be ice buildup within the defroster. Break through that and that should fix the problem.
Sometimes the issue will be in the ice maker though and this is a bit problem troublesome than the other problems. You can take care of the ice maker yourself but it is a bit of a headache. First disable the ice maker by turning off the shutoff valve usually located underneath your sink. After it has been shutoff proceed to check if it is actually plugged in. If the plug is out then just slip it back on, reverse the shutoff valve, and you should be back in business. If that is not the problem then you will need to flush the drain.
Chances are that your drain has clogged and if you do not unclog it you will never be free of your flooding problems. Run diluted bleach into the drain a few times and then try turning your ice maker back on. If this did not help, you can try again or call ACME Sub-Zero refrigerator repair Beverly Hills to take a look at the issue.

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