I’ve been facing this problem for the past couple months or so and I get more frustrated every new day. Basically we got this fridge, a refurbished one, but one which hadn’t been used before. It’s one of those ge profile ones with the bottom freezer and I’ve just given up on setting the right fridge temp!!
The prob is that in the beginning our fridge temp was set up at 32 or so and it said that ideal temp should be 37. I obviously had to initally struggle a lil with that since I’m used to working with C as opposed to F! We put it up to 37 but for some reason everything in the fridge drawer had ice crystals on it. I just assumed that all the produce prolly got frozen from before I made the temp switch. Now eventually with trial n error, I’ve moved the temp up to 42 and yet the darned produce keeps on freezing in the drawers. The drawers btw are located right at the bottom of the fridge (which as I mentioned is at the top).
But the prob seems to be only with the drawers. Everythin else in the upper shelves, door shelves seems to be perfectly fine. It’s just the produce in the drawers. Also, noones home in the morning so obv the fridge doesn’t get used until later in the eve. now WHAT CAN I DO TO STOP THIS???
Also, I forgot to mention, that the fridge drawers have these little vent like things and you can slid the cover to the left/right to control the humidity settings. I've tried keeping both the drawers towards the lowest setting, and then the highest for a few days respectively to see if that affects the freezing, but that didn't matter. Everything still froze.
I'm worried that if I pull up the temp to above 42, everything else in the fridge might just start to melt or not stay cool. We're sooooo happy with the rest of the fridge. It's great storage, convenient shelving, no probs with the freezer or anything else. Plus we also got a great deal on it. Just this produce thing is driving me nuts b/c each time I pull out a tomato from the fridge, it's rock hard!
The drawer might have its own separate control. My GE profile does. See the online user guide for the model to find more details about how to set it up.
Nopes mirch. No such luck with my fridge drawers. I looked all over, couldn't find any controls other than those vents for humidity control. I'd notched it up since the past 2 days to a 44 and today had to clean up the drawers b/c some of the frozen produce had melted in their bags. it's back to 41. Can't do much. I wonder if anyone's used those Debbie myers green bags?
You will get ice crystals forming if the drawer is not fully closed and sealed.
This is because air has moisture in it and will turn into ice when at below 0c. Make sure the seal on the drawer is not damaged and is sealing properly.