Your refrigerator is in your kitchen. If you try to cool your kitchen on a hot day by operating your refrigerator with its door open, the kitchen temperature will

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Operating a refrigerator with its door open will actually increase the kitchen temperature. This is because refrigerators remove heat from their interior and release it into the surrounding environment. With the door open, the refrigerator works harder to cool the inside, which is now effectively the entire kitchen, leading to more heat being expelled into the room than if the refrigerator were closed.

Your Refrigerator Is in Your Kitchen