From guidance on where to place your refrigerator, to the best space in the fridge to keep certain items cold; Samsung shares tips to help you enjoy a cool, calm and collected summer.

Top tips to keep your fridge contents at the optimal temperature

• Keep your fridge temperature set at 3°C/37.4F and your freezer set at -19°C/-2.2F (or -18°C/-0.4F, depending on your model) all year-round
• Ensure that your fridge-freezer is situated at least 5 cm from walls on both sides and 10 cm from the wall at the rear. If the fridge-freezer isn’t well-ventilated, the freezer temperature could rise and food may start to defrost when the overall room temperature starts to rise, as it does in summer (Ice cream and bread tend to be the first items to soften)
• Ensure your fridge-freezer is not placed in a conservatory or direct sunlight during the summer months. Such locations are likely to exceed 40°C on warm sunny days which could cause the internal temperature of your appliance to rise too
• Only use the power cool and power freeze functions featured on your Samsung fridge freezer when large quantities of fresh food are placed in the fridge or freezer (such as when you’re storing the week’s grocery shopping). The power function should be switched on 2 hours before the food/drink goes in and switched off 5 hours after the food/drink has been placed in the refrigerator
• Do not keep ice creams, ice lollies or bread in the doors or on the top shelf of the freezer: these areas aren’t the coldest parts and so these items are likely to defrost faster if stored in these areas

“Keeping our food and drinks at the right temperature is not only essential to preventing them from going off, but it can also maximize our enjoyment eating and drinking them. This is why we are committed to providing customers with total control over the temperature of their fridge-freezers, building in helpful features such as the cool select pantry to make them as easy to use as possible,” said Nick Bevan, Head of Product Management for Digital Appliances.

London, UK – January 2, 2020 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today unveiled the latest edition of its Family Hub refrigerator, with intelligent new features that automate meal planning and other daily tasks and deliver a more personalised experience. Family Hub for 2020 will enable families to more easily share life’s important moments with one another and control more of the connected devices within their smart home.

“Since we launched Family Hub five years ago, we have continued to introduce intelligent innovations that reflect the ways that busy, modern families are living,” said Nick Bevan, Head of Product Management for Domestic Appliances, Samsung Electronics UK. “The latest Family Hub helps families stay connected like never before with personalised features for meal planning, managing your smart home and mirroring content from your TV or mobile device.”

The latest version of Family Hub is simple, sophisticated, and modern, making it the perfect addition to today’s connected kitchen. In response to years of consumer insights with Family Hub, the next generation delivers innovative features that people want the most: AI-enhanced cameras inside the refrigerator and improved, thoughtful meal planning and recipe suggestions tailored to personal preferences. The new Family Hub also enables families to share more types of media and entertainment together, and brings a new level of control to the connected home.

Intelligent Meal Planning

Family Hub is more streamlined and more personalised than ever, meaning you’ll spend less time preparing your meals and more time enjoying them. It customises the entire food experience for you—recommending Smart Recipes based on the dietary preferences you set, helping you come up with a weeklong Meal Plan based on your refrigerator inventory, and preparing your Shopping List with all the right ingredients.

Family Hub’s ViewInside cameras have been upgraded with brand-new AI image recognition technology, which automatically scans the products inside your fridge, identifies them, and sends you updates on items your family has added or depleted. Family Hub’s Meal Planner is also smarter, with the Quick Plan feature now offering a week’s worth of recommended recipes with just one click.

Another new feature for meal planning is brought to Family Hub through innovative technology from Whisk, a food AI startup recently acquired by Samsung NEXT. Whisk can help you plan an entire meal—or even a week’s worth of meals—by adjusting recipes based on the number of guests you expect and building a smart shopping list that consolidates ingredients from several recipes.

Bring Your Family Closer

Since the launch of the Family Board last year, families have been using this virtual bulletin board to enhance life’s special moments, sharing favorite songs and images for the whole family to interact with. Now, for the first time, the Family Board supports video clips, so you can transfer videos from your smartphone^[1] to the refrigerator and relive important memories together.

To make sharing easier, Family Hub has also updated the SmartView feature, which mirrors content from connected Samsung TVs and Samsung mobile devices^[2]. With portrait mode, you can enjoy vertical smartphone videos, as well as your favorite social media content on the full screen of Family Hub. With almost half a dozen options available, your family members can continue to enjoy music from their favorite music streaming apps.

Connect and Control Your Smart Home

The new Family Hub takes managing your smart home to the next level. You can monitor and control over 1,000 SmartThings-compatible products throughout your home: turn your lights on or off, see who’s at the front door, set the temperature, and lock the front door. And with the addition of the new SmartThings Video widget^[3], you can now view multiple security cameras at-a-glance, to keep an eye on your entire home from the kitchen.

The new Family Hub software enhancements will be available this spring. For more information about the product or Samsung Home Appliances, please visit http://www.samsung.com.

[1] Requires ‘Family Hub’ app, available on Android and iOS. Registration and Broadband/WiFi/3G/4G access required

[2] Service available on the Samsung Smart TV 6400 series and above released in 2015. Requires Samsung Galaxy S6 and above or Samsung Galaxy Note 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10 series.

[3] Requires ‘SmartThings’ app, available on Android and iOS. Registration and Broadband/WiFi/3G/4G access required.