A refrigerated cabinet or a separate compartment in a fridge in which food can be preserved at very low temperatures.
frozen milk can be stored in the freezer compartment
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Fully and newly equipped, it includes electric cooker and hob, microwave and fridge (with freezer compartment) and washing machine.
Occasionally clean freezer compartment following manual instructions.
At air temperatures below 40F the compressor stops running, so the freezer compartment rises to air temperature and food thaws and spoils.
Puff pastry keeps in the freezer compartment of the fridge for weeks, and takes about an hour to thaw.
There was a small refrigerator on board, but it didn't have a freezer compartment.
Never run frost-free refrigerators with freezer compartments in unheated areas with air temperature below 60F, unless specially designed for such conditions.
There is not an ice-maker in the refrigerator compartment or the freezer compartment, there is no water-dispenser on the door, none of that stuff.
I only dicovered our fridge had a freezer compartment 6 weeks ago.
The fridge had a dodgy seal on the freezer compartment door and so tended to freeze everything you put in it, which, of course, was mainly cheese.
A few days ago I noticed the fridge and freezer compartments not cooling anymore and, food was starting to defrost.