It can cause bacteria and cause germs to food or drink and could damage your fridge or freezer.
Yes, but it will make the food hot.
An electric stove-top, hot water in a shower or bath, grabbing cold stuff out of the freezer/fridge... there are a lot.
you put it in the fridge or the freezer for a short amount of time
You should never put hot things in a fridge or freezer as this will damage the cooling mechanism of the appliance . All foods to be placed in a fridge or freezer must be left to cool down at room temperature before being stored.
Yes, but it is best to cool down food fast before storing it in the freezer.Putting hot food in the freezer will thaw a little of the freezer and make the freezer work harder to freeze the hot food.
To cool chili con carne or any other hot food for storage in a fridge, you should place the chili in several small containers, and place them directly in the fridge. That you should leave it out to cool at room temperature is a common misconception; that will actually allow bacteria to grow quicker than if the hot food was placed directly in the fridge or freezer.
You should allow food to cool at room temperature. Putting the food in the fridge or freezer before its temperature lowers to room temperature could result in the food being unsafe to eat.
because it wont get too hot, it will reflect heat.
You can just put them in the fridge, but if you want them to last a long time, you can put them in the freezer.
no wth, just take the frozen food out of the freezer
Yes, keeping the freezer full helps it retain the cold and keeps food frozen long in case there is a power out. Group foods together putting raw meats on the bottom, cooked meats above that, fruits and veggies next and breads and other baked goods that can't drip and contaminate foods on the top. Freeze ice, flour, rice, dry beans, dry pasta or other freezable pantry items to fill any extra space in the freezer. If the freezer is empty only thing in there will be air. So energy will be spent to cool the air which being a bad conductor will take lot of power. And then when someone opens the freezer cool air from inside mixes with hot air outside effectively raising the temperature in the freezer. The freezer has to work again to cool this hot air back to the earlier levels. So filling up the empty space in freezer with stuff (preferably but not necessarily food stuff)
Any fridge - or freezer - is designed to keep its contents cold. It does this by taking heat away from its food compartment and pumping it into a radiator panel fixed to its outside. The radiator - either fixed on to the back of the unit or built into its back panel - must get hot because it receives most of the heat taken from the inside and has to lose it into the surrounding air.