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Too cold — freezing food on your KitchenAid KBFL25ETSS01

A refrigerator that's freezing lettuce, ice-crystallizing milk, or turning fresh food into frozen food has one of a few distinct problems — all of them DIY-diagnosable, none requiring sealed-system work. The most common cause is simply the temperature dial set colder than needed; refrigerators don't need to run below 37°F in the fresh food compartment, and setting the dial to maximum cold unnecessarily over-cools items near the air vents. Next most common is a stuck damper — a motorized valve between the freezer and fresh food compartment that controls how much cold air passes through. When the damper fails in the open position, cold freezer air rushes continuously into the fresh food side. The third common cause is items placed too close to the rear vent, where they take the direct blast of air and freeze locally while the rest of the compartment reads normal. Before suspecting a sensor or control board, check the dial setting and whether anything sits against the back wall where the cold air enters.