Is the freezer compartment of your Samsung fridge completely frozen over? And you don’t know how to defrost Samsung fridge properly.
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 does it work?
What is defrosting for refrigerator
Due to frequent opening of refrigerator door humidity enters inside the refrigerator and turn to ice due to extremely low temperature inside freezer.
If you try to open the freezer door you will find so much ice inside the chamber. Your goods placed inside 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 defrost button to melt all the ice from freezer and it will also drain all the water formed after 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 are always wondered about 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 turns into ice due to very low temperature inside the freezer.
Why should I defrost my Samsung refrigerator?
You may have to defrost Samsung refrigerator because of excessive ice frozen inside freezer compartment.
Let us consider you place any good into freezer to make it cool but 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.
Because if you try to take it out forcefully then your good kept in freezer or portion of the freezer may get damage.
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 defrosting process for single door and double door fridge separately.
Defrost single door Samsung refrigerator
In single door Samsung refrigerator, you can find a temperature control panel at the top right corner of the refrigerator. It is situated at the right side of the freezer compartment.
Press the defrost button located on the dial knob from temperature control panel. It is available at the right side of freezer.
When you press the defrost button using your finger and release it will not come out with your finger. It will 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 less value if your refrigerator gets frozen every day.
Moisture in air causes excess ice formation in the freezer compartment of any refrigerator.
Defrost double door Samsung refrigerator
Defrosting double door Samsung refrigerator with digital display is different to single door refrigerator. Because there is no dedicated switch to defrost 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 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 in to defrost mode.
Defrost mode normally takes up to 2Hrs. After 2hrs all the ice will melt, and freezer will get clean.
Here FD on the screen meaning is Forced Defrost. If you see the FD on the screen, then its mean 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 refrigerator door unnecessarily to avoid entrance of humidity.
- Set temperature control knob to suitable position according to 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 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.
FAQs
In single door Samsung refrigerator, you can find a temperature control panel at the top right corner of the refrigerator. It is situated at the right side of the freezer compartment.
Press the defrost button located on the dial knob from temperature control panel. It is available at the right side of freezer.
In double door Samsung refrigerator, you need to press and hold the freezer and lighting buttons together.
After some time, you will see FD on the refrigerator screen. This means your refrigerator has gone in to defrost mode.
Defrost mode normally takes up to 2Hrs. After 2hrs all the ice will melt, and freezer will get clean.
Press the defrost button located on the dial knob from temperature control panel. It is available at the right side of freezer.
When you press the defrost button using your finger and release it will not come out with your finger. It will set to defrost mode and come out 2-3 hours after the defrost process has finished.
Yes, you can defrost Samsung freezer without turning of the fridge. Samsung has provided dedicated defrost button for remove the excess ice from the freezer.
Press the defrost button located on the dial knob from temperature control panel. It is available at the right side of freezer.
It will set to defrost mode and come out 2-3 hours after the defrost process has finished.
Samsung has also launched frost free refrigerators. You need not to defrost those types of fridges manually. Samsung has placed a small element inside the unit that actually melts accumulating ice. This process is carried out without the interfering with the cooling cycle of your refrigerators.
But most of the Samsung refrigerator doesn’t defrost automatically. You need to defrost Samsung refrigerator manually.
You just need to press the defrost button available at the top right corner of the refrigerator. It will defrost your fridge within 2 Hrs.
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So, if you have frost free refrigerator then you need not to defrost manually otherwise you need to do it manually two times a week.
If you have set, you Samsung refrigerator to defrost mode and all of the excessive ice formed has been melt. Now you need not to reset the defrost button again it will automatically come to its native position after some time.
If you want to set your Samsung refrigerator to the defrost mode, then you need to press and release the defrost button once it will set to defrost position.
You need not to long press it just push it to inside so that it doesn’t come out and release gently. You have all done, it will automatically come out after 2-3hours when the defrost process has completed.
