Appliances can be deceptively low-maintenance. Take your refrigerator, for example. It's easy to assume it's quietly doing its job in the background, on autopilot. And, to be fair, it usually is. But ...

When a freezer is opened and then closed, some of the cold air is replaced with air at room temperature. This warm air then cools. Gay-Lussac’s law states that the pressure of a given mass of gas ...

Dear Heloise: Our REFRIGERATOR DIED — the day after grocery shopping. The fridge was getting warm. Luckily, the freezer was still holding cold, but we knew it wouldn’t last. It would take a few days ...

Freeze-burned green beans, like these, may be a thing of the past with a new freezing method. Credit: Shutterstock Have you ever pulled a long-anticipated pint of ice cream out of the freezer, only to ...