How to defrost Samsung Refrigerator

Is the freezer compartment of your Samsung fridge completely frozen over? And you don’t know how to defrost a Samsung fridge properly. Here we have explained how to defrost Samsung Refrigerator.

Now you are looking for a way to defrost it, then you have come to the right place. Here we will tell you the right way to defrost Samsung’s refrigerator.

Defrosting a Samsung refrigerator is a very easy task. To defrost your fridge, you need to know what defrost is and how it works.

What is defrosting for refrigerator

Due to frequent opening of the refrigerator door humidity enters the refrigerator and turns to ice due to extremely low temperature inside the freezer.

If you try to open the freezer door you will find so much ice inside the chamber. Your goods placed inside the freezer are completely frozen and even hard to take out goods from the freezer.

Now you want to remove the ice from the freezer, and it is very hard to remove the ice with sharp objects, and not recommended.

Samsung has provided a defrost button to melt all the ice from the freezer and it will also drain all the water formed after the melting of ice.

Defrosting in refrigerators is a process of removal of ice from its ice chamber (freezer). Samsung has provided a dedicated defrost button to remove the ice from the freezer.

Why excessive ice form in freezer without water?

People have always wondered about the formation of excessive ice inside the freezer compartment of a refrigerator.

You have not kept any water in any open bowl in the freezer but many times you find so much ice is formed inside the freezer.

Excessive ice forms automatically inside the freezer compartment of many refrigerators, it happens when you use to open the refrigerator door frequently and you have set your refrigerator temperature control knob to a very low temperature.

Now humidity contains water vapors, and they enter frequently while opening the door and continuously turn into ice due to the very low temperature inside the freezer.

Why should I defrost my Samsung refrigerator?

You may have to defrost the Samsung refrigerator because of excessive ice frozen inside the freezer compartment.

Let us consider you place any good into the freezer to make it cool but the next day you find it is frozen and so much excessive ice has also formed around it.

Now you are unable to take it out from the freezer. Now you need to defrost your refrigerator to take it out easily from the refrigerator.

If you try to take it out forcefully then your good is kept in the freezer or a portion of the freezer may get damaged.

You need to defrost your refrigerator to remove the excessive ice formed in the freezer compartment.

How to defrost Samsung refrigerator

There is a dedicated defrost button in most of the Samsung refrigerators, you can press it to defrost your refrigerator.

The basic principles of defrosting any type of refrigerator from any brand are similar but the procedure may be different.

So, in this post, we have explained the defrosting process for single-door and double-door fridges separately.

Defrost single door Samsung refrigerator

In a single-door Samsung refrigerator, you can find a temperature control panel at the top right corner of the refrigerator. It is situated on the right side of the freezer compartment.

Press the defrost button located on the dial knob from the temperature control panel. It is available on the right side of the freezer.

When you press the defrost button using your finger and release it will not come out with your finger. It will be set to defrost mode and come out after 2-3 hours after the defrost process has finished.

You can control your fridge temperature by rotating the dial knob clockwise and anti-clockwise from the temperature control panel.

You can set it according to the weather conditions and your requirements. You can set it to a lower value if your refrigerator gets frozen every day.

Moisture in the air causes excess ice formation in the freezer compartment of any refrigerator.

Defrost double door Samsung refrigerator

Defrosting double-door Samsung refrigerators with digital displays is different from single-door refrigerators. Because there is no dedicated switch to defrost the freezer in double-door digital display refrigerator.

In this type of Samsung refrigerator, you need to press and hold the freezer and lighting buttons together for more than 4 seconds until you hear a beep sound, and the display should read “OFF”. Now hit the “fridge/power cool” button again to activate the FD mode on your fridge.

After some time, you will see FD on the refrigerator screen. This means your refrigerator has gone into defrost mode.

Defrost mode normally takes up to 2Hrs. After 2hrs all the ice will melt, and the freezer will get clean.

Here FD on the screen means Forced Defrost. If you see the FD on the screen, then it means that your refrigerator is set to defrost mode.

Defrost Samsung French door refrigerator video guide

How to stop forming ice in the freezer?

If you don’t want your refrigerator not to form excessive ice inside the freezer compartment, then you can do the following things:

• Don’t open the refrigerator door unnecessarily to avoid the entrance of humidity.
• Set the temperature control knob to a suitable position according to the seasons.
  • Winter: Between 1-2 is suitable position.
  • Monsoon: Between 3-4 is suitable position.
  • Summer: Between 5-6 is suitable position.
  • Extreme hot: Keep it to highest when weather is extreme hot or in case of special need.

We have explained the suitable position of the temperature dial knob according to weather conditions. You can adjust it according to your requirements also.

You may want to set your temp. dial knob to between 4-5 in winter season also if you have placed so many goods in the refrigerator.

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