[mihaaly]

What irritates me (also friends) is relatives opening it and standing their thinking about the food, keeping it open for a minute or more without actual activity.

I wonder if transparent door would be a gain here, with worse thermal insulation but allowing to locate things and contemplate before opening the door and allowing the cold to escape to the floor.

[blensor]

Does it make much of a difference if you keep it open for 20 seconds or 2 minutes?

I imagine that as soon as most of the cool air has flowed out of it (which should happen quite quickly), the additional energy loss is minimal

There are compromise versions where there is a small door at half height in the big door, through which you can get the bottles/milk crates out of the side of the door.

What I am wondering is if there is a way to solve this with at technical solution that keeps the current standup design but makes it energy efficient.

For example: An opening at the bottom of the door that sucks cold air in when the door opens and transports it to the top back of the compartment. While open, most of the cold air would be saved and it's only a ventilator that's running for a few seconds

[almostarockstar]

Perhaps a transparent door, inside the main insulating door. So people could open the fridge and stare slack jawed without letting all the cold out. Condensation blocking the view would be an issue I suppose.

[londons_explore]

Many fridges start beeping after 30 seconds of the door being open.

People quickly learn to ignore the beep while they "quickly make breakfast" and then put the sausages and eggs back in the fridge and close the door after eating breakfast. #billpayerfrustratedwithhisfamily