Kitchenaid Freezer How-To Guides — Complete Maintenance Guide

Three procedures, and together they describe one complaint from three angles. The headline guide covers a KitchenAid freezer that will not maintain temperature. The other two are the parts that most often cause it without any refrigerant being involved: the door gasket, which lets warm air in continuously when it stops sealing, and the evaporator fan motor, which leaves the cabinet cold in one place and warm everywhere else when it stops turning.

That makes the reading order almost automatic. Check the gasket first, because it costs nothing to test with a sheet of paper and it explains frost, long run times and a cabinet that never quite reaches setpoint. If the seal is good, the fan motor is next, since air that is cold but not circulating produces the same reading on a thermometer as a cooling system that has lost capacity. The temperature guide ties both checks together.

What is deliberately not in this hub is the sealed circuit, and that is the boundary. A gasket and a fan motor are homeowner parts; the compressor, the refrigerant charge and the evaporator coil are not, and opening that circuit is restricted by federal law. If both checks pass and the freezer still will not hold temperature, EasyBear services KitchenAid freezers across Sacramento and the Bay Area.