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Jeff Morris wrote:

My catamaran has a front opening fridge. (Again, level sailing has
advantages!) Its far easier to find things so you can open it, get your
stuff, and close it quickly. When we had a top loader, we would often
have to pull things out to find something that had fallen to the bottom.
My wife claims, based on nothing in particular, that the front loader
must be more efficient. I've wondered how much cold is really lost, or
to be more precise, how much heat content is in the warm air that gets
in when the cold "falls" out.

Having had both (on land) through a few multi-day power outages, I can
state positively that considerable cooling is lost every time a
front-loader's door is opened, and those seals aren't perfect even when
the door is closed.

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