It sounds illogical, but a cool environment can be harmful to your frost-free refrigerator or freezer.

A frost-free refrigerator combats this problem by heating the coils on a timed cycle.

Learn more about how frost-free refrigerators work.

Learn how frost-free refrigerators work.

She explained that modern frost-free refrigerators "zap the moisture out of strawberries so they must stay covered."

The apartment had its own washer-dryer, and a large kitchen, with, of course, a frost-free refrigerator.

And in the days before frost-free refrigerators, "snow" built up into glaciers in the freezer compartment for the same reason.

A brand new frost-free refrigerator?

A frost-free refrigerator is the largest single electricity user in a typical house that does not have central air-conditioning.

In 1988 Milton and Mildred Lewis bought a two-door, frost-free refrigerator for $800.