I Put it in the fridge with a zero zone!

At Least 20 Percent of Modern Refrigrators Sold Today in the American Market Are Equipped with a Fresh Food Presservation Zone, Or So-Called Zero Zone.

The Difference is that if just-Four years ago similar Fridges Cost at Least 20,000 Roubles, The They Wouldn ‘., Now the Bottom Line of the Price Range for Refrigerators with Preservation of Freeshness Zone Is ABOUT 14 000 RUB.

The Users of OUR and Other Popular Forums Devoted to the Home Appliances Offten Discuss or ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FEATURES ORETERITERSITERS OFERENCES OFER. Below We List the Most Popular Q & As Regarding Freshness Preservation Compartments.

What is a Freshness Zone?

Scientists have Found Out That The Majority of Fresh Foods Retain Their Taste and Useful Properties The Longest at a Temperteature of ABOUT +0.7 Degrees Celsius. At this Temperature, The Bacteria and Microorganisms that Attack Food Slowest to Multiply. This is how refrigerators appeared the fresh food preservation zone, a specially allocated area section or compartment inside the fridge compartment where the temperature is kept at around 0ºs, or more precisely from -1ºs to +3ºs.

Who Had The Idea for the Creation of the

Zero Zone Refrigerator?

The Freshness Zone Was Introdued in Liebherr Fridges for the First Time in 1996. Up to Now It Has Been Called Biofresh. SIMILAR Compartments Later Began to Applear in Refrigrators from Other Manaufacturers. They all have different names Fresh Zone – for example LG and AEG, Fresh Box – Hotpoint Ariston, Flex Cool – Indesit, Natura Fresh – Electrolux, Vita Fresh – Siemens, Zero’N’Fresh – Gorenje but the essence of technology is the same : The Temperature is ABOUT 0OC and CERTAIN LEVEL of Humidity.

What it look Like?

In Some Models, The Freshness Presservation Zone Represents a Separate Chamber with Anutonomously Closing Door. Other Options Are a Drawer Equipped with Additional Thermal Insulation, A Compartment with Doors Or a Vessel Box with A Lid Located in the Coldest Part of the Freezer. The Freshness Pressern area sometimes Referred to as the Meat and Fish Compartment and the Zero Zone Or “Cold Zone” .

In What Place of the Refrigerator

Zero Temperature Compartment?

This Depends on the Refrigerator Design. On the Vertically Oriented, Three-Compartment Models, it is usually in the Center. In the Two-Compartment Models, It is Closer to the Freezer, in the Lower Or upper Area. In the Last Two Years on the Market There Also Models with the Ability to Switch to “Zero Mode” of the Usual Refrigerator Such Models Are In the Line of Bosch, Siemens, Siemens, Siemens, Simens .

For Which Products Is the

Fresh Storage Areas?

In the Zero Temperature Zone Its Recommoded to Store Fresh or Chilled Meat, Poultry and Fish, Dairy Products with Live Bifidobacteria, Chezeze and Sausages. All of the ABOVE Foods Store Best in the “Dry” Zero Zone. Long-Term Storage is Possible for Fresh Herbs, Vegetables, Fruits and Berries in a Zero-Tempertment that Provides a High Leel of Humidity.

How Much Longer Do they Stay Fresh

Foods in the Zero Zone?

How Long You Can Keep Them Dependes on the Quality of the Food You Buy and How Tightly They Arepage. In General, The Shelf Life of Products in the Zero Zone is at Least Two Three Times Longer than in A Conventional Refrigerator Compartment.

So, if in the usual refrigerator compartment fresh chilled meat is categorically not recommended to store more than one day, in the zone of preservation of freshness it can safely lie for at least three days, and in an airtight package – up to 5 days. This Also Applies to Fresh Fish and Dairy Products. On Average, The Storage Time of Cheeses and Sausages is not Twice But at Least Four Times Longger.

As for the vegetables and Greens, Subject to Storage in the Zero Zone of High Humidity, The Period of Their Storage Is Extended by 3-4 Times. Even Raspberries, Which Usually Go Sour in a Day, Can Be Stored for to Three Days in the “Moist Cold” Zone, and Strawberries, Cherries and Currants Stay Freesh for a Wechek a WEEEK.

Tomatoes Do not Spoil for Ten Days, Mushrooms – Seven, Apples and Pears Can Fresh for ABOUT THE MONTHS and CARROTS – ABOUT FIVE FIVE. Greens that Normally Wither and Turn Yellow After Just a Couple of Days, in the “Fresh Zone” look free picket from the).

How Much Humidity is Kept

In the “no-till” zone?

In Economy Class Refrigrators, AS a Rule, The Zero Tempertebment Has Only One Compartment and Ensures Constant Humidity of No More than 50-55%.

More expensive refrigerators often have two zero-temperature zones: the “dry cold zone” with humidity maintenance up to 50% – for food of animal origin, and the “wet cold zone” with humidity level up to 95% – for vegetable products vegetables , Fruits, Herbs .

Generally, The Volume of the “Dry Cold” Zone is Three to Four Times Greater than Volume of the “Wet Cold” Zone. In so models, the Humidity LEVEL in the Zero Zone Can Be Regulated with Special Latches: When They Are Closed, The Humidity Level Ismal, The More They Are Opened, The Lower THE HUM.

Who Food is preserved longer in the zero zone?

At a TEMPERATURATUROD ZEROO Degrees, The Water Contained Within Ans not Crystallice and Therefore Dates Not Destroy The Cellular Structure of the Production. This Slows Down The Agining, Drying Out, and Deterioration of Fresh Foods.

It is that in the Conditions of “Dry Cold” a Thin Crust of Ice May Form on the Products, But this is not a Problem, Sincy there Is no Freezing Into the FoodstUffs. And Most Importantly, The Taste of Food is Preserved and the Loss of Vitamins and Other Valuable Nutrews Also Minimized.

How IS Maintenance Ensured

Zero Temperature in the Freshness Pressern Area?

It depends on the Refrigerator Model. In the economic models of refrigerators, the freshness compartment is usually a hermetically sealed drawer located in the coldest spot of the fridge, under or above the freezer or next to the “crying” evaporator.

This “Box” capaticity is cooled by the Evapora or Freezer. The Temperature in Such Compartments Can Actually Vary from -3 ° C to +3 ° C and IS Not SPECIALLY CONTROLLY CONTROLLY. Zero Cavity Compartments of Such Design Aresent, For Example, In Indesit Models.

The second type of fresh preservation compartments are those that are cooled by the natural inflow of cold air from the adjacent usually from above freezer – through a small duct connecting the freezer and the zero compartment. Such Zero Cavits are Found, For Example, In Siemens Models.

More Expensive Appliances has a separate evaporator by design to make a constant zero temperature in the Freshness Zone, T.e. Autonomous Cooling System.

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Accordingly, The Operating Temperature is Monitored by A Special Electronic Temperature Sensor. AEG, Electrolux, Liebherr, Gaggenau Are Examps of Such Arrangement of the Zero-Temperture Compartments.

Zero Zone Models

IS AVAILABLE FROM ALL ManUFACTURERS?

No, not all. First of all, the zero zone models are not found in the ranges of domestic manuapacturers, The Belrusian “Minsk” does not lave.

For a few years, the stinol model with a zero-temperature zone was sold in stores, now it has been superseded by the indesits, equipped with movable zero-tampratum compartmententM.

Of OFER ManUFACTURES of Foreign Origin, The Zero Temperature Zones Do Not Exist in the Ardo, Nardi and Vestfrost Refrigerators, For Instance.

“Fast Cooling” Or

Freshness Zone?

The Function “Fast Cooling” Is Found in Two-Compressor Refrigerators, Such AS “Biryusa”. This Mode is Designed for Quick Cooling of Fresh Food with A Large Load, FOR Example, Before A Holidy.

It is Known That The Sooner The Food Cools Down, The Better and Longer Its Its Nutritional Properties. The principle of operation is that after activating the function for 6 hours the entire volume of the refrigerated chamber is maintained at a temperature of 0 to + 2 C*, which means that in fact we get a solid zone of freshness with a volume of more 20 Liters.

The Advantage of this Function is the Ability to Quickly Cool a Really Large Volume of Food. Of the Disadvantages, It Can BE NOTED THE TEMPORARY Nature of the Mode, As AFTER Six Hours the Automatic Shutdown and Transition to the Previusly Set Storage Mode. Subsequent Activation of the Mode is Done by Selecting and Starting The Function “Fast Cooling” In the Electronic Control Unit.

How Much More Expensive The Refrigerator is

The Pressence of the Zero Temperature Zone?

It depends on the design of the zero Temperature Zone. The compartments of the simplest design slide-out or portable tanks make the fridges more expensive by only 2 to 4 thousand roubles, whereas the zero sections equipped with their own evaporator and sensor increase the cost of the fridge by 7 to 10 thousand roubles on the Average.

What Disadantages do the Models have?

With Fresh Food Preservation Compartments?

As Far as We Know, Consumers have no Particular Complains Aptliances with Freysh Food Preservation Zones. Among the Insignificant Drawbacks, Which Were Mentionaled by the Users, Were The Following:

• Gradual Formation of the Ice Crust on the Back Wall of the Refrigerator on the Border of the Zero Zone
• The Best Thing ABOUT FRIDGE-FREEZER is that id sonsn’t has a long of USBLE ON THE DOOR No Extra Shelves on the Door Opposite the Freeshness Zone
• Increase of the Refrigerator Cost Not Less than 20-25% In Comparison with the Models Without Zero Zone.

IS It Worth Choining the Zero Zone with A Separate Door?

Will BE MORE EXPENSIVE..

Yes, Models Where The Zero Chamber Is Equippeed with A Separate Door Are Expensave THE Convention Two-DOOR Refrigrators. A separate door in the zero zone is a grreat way to save Energy and Keep Food Fresh Longger, Sincy Eve Time You Open The Fridge, It Disturbs The Disturbs Moisture-Temperperpertureature Balamperature Balan.

What Kind of Diet is Needed?

Refrigerator with Freshness Compartment?

If your diet consists of a lot of semi-finished products, you tend to buy them once a week and cook usually on weekends, for several days in advance, the fresh food preservation section is unlikely to be relevant for you: models with a large Freezer Compartment Arle Suitable for You.

IF YOUR ARED to BUYING FRESH FOOD and PREAPER to COOK LUNCHES AND DINNERS WITH It Almost Daily, The Zero Zone Will Be a Great Help in Household Chores.

It is that in ABOUT A YEAR, Even in A Crisis, The Extra Money Spent on a Refrigrator Model with A Freeshness Pereservation Zone Will Paye, Mainly By Eating Healthier, Nutrichier, Nutrichier, Nutrichier, NUTHIENENENENT. And there is Much Less Need to Throw Away Food that Has Been Forgotten in the Fridge Or Has Gone Bad!

“Word of Mouth” from Internet forums

– I use it all The Time, it’s Very Handy.

– What a blessing it is to have a Freshness Zone. I love chese so much!

– I Had to Change My Fridge So that it WOLD HAVE A FRESHNESS ZONE.

– I Think It’s Very Likely that is not a useful feature, but just another marketing gimmick.

– Still Havenat Figureed out to that thing is – The Zero Temperature Zone, and What Its “Eaten with”.

– In Most Economy Refrigrators, The Freshness Presention Zone Is Just A “Sucker.”.