The suction on my refrigerator door is amazing!

i like suction

Does it swallow, too?

yes

if i can get it open

it swallows my energy dollas

what did you name it ?

Bessie

Stick your dick in it and call it celery!!

get it in the hole

The ice maker?

It seems large enuf

I found out the hard way not to stick your fingers up in their -- sharp edges ... ouch!

And why did I do that? to see if it was making ice ...

Is it a Frigidaire? I just got a new one and noticed the same thing, damn it's hard to open up ...

i can't even open it sometimes

and i'll just go sit on the couch

I have an upright commercial freezer. Talk about suction. You can hear it vacuum. Very hard to open.

Oh, and here's a hot weather hint: open your big freezer and put in a big queen or king size comforter. Let it get cold for 15 to 30 minutes. Strip naked, then get the comfortor fromthe freezer, fold it double, throw it on the couch then lay on it.

Oh man. Feels great on a hot Texas day!

I've been noticing the same thing and I have a theory on what's causing it:

This is summer, and perhaps you live in a high humidity place like I do....Well, when you open the door on the freezer, the cold gasket edges condense some of that humidity into a water mist.....

When you close the door, that mist turns into ice causing it to "glue" itself shut to some extent....

Just my theory unless you have sticky, gooey filthy freezer.

After closing my refrigerator's door I noticed that it's much harder to reopen it immediately, as if there's an underpressure. Only after a minute or so it opens normally. How can this be explained?

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yeah sure you were

You're joking with your shipmates about your refrigerator the being vacuum of space.

No...

It's very simple. New and modern fridge and freezers have better insulation and more airtight sealings for the door, aswell as more effective cooling system.

When you open the door, cool air leaves and hot air enters. As you close the door the air cools really fast and when it does it gets smaller in size, hence it creates a sort of a "vacuum lock".

Yep, you've got the best explanation. You won this one.

Well I have a brand new low end fridge here and I wish it had some suction to hold the door shut. Found it ajar a couple of times lately and not happy about that. Need to get a better habit of making sure it's pressed tightly closed. Not something I have had to think about in the past.