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If your family has young children under the age of 5, you're probably very familiar with the fact that children are often curious and fiddle with all the electrical appliances in the house. The decals stuck on the fridge, washing machine, water filter... are all torn off by them.
They even learn how to open the fridge to enjoy the cool air and then slam the door shut repeatedly, laughing mischievously. Many of them forget to close the door properly, causing the fridge to lose a significant amount of heat, resulting in wasted electricity. Moreover, air leakage into the fridge can cause the stored food to spoil for no apparent reason.
When they touch the fridge control panel, the original settings are changed, causing panic among housewives who don't understand whether the fridge is broken or if they have forgotten how to set the temperature properly. More dangerously, your children may crawl into the fridge or climb onto the door, shelves may cause electric shock or the fridge to fall on them... These are the reasons why you should choose to buy a refrigerator with a child lock instead of a regular one.
1. What is a refrigerator with a child lock?
Refrigerators with child lock feature are those equipped with a control screen lock or fridge lock to deactivate the fridge from mischievous objects like young children. Most refrigerators with child locks have an external control panel on the fridge door for user-friendly handling and operation. Simply press the Lock button or a specific key combination as instructed in the fridge manual to activate the child lock mode or fridge control panel lock.
Some refrigerators with modern touch screen control panels have child locks designed in more detail not to completely lock all functions but only to control children at a certain level or feature. For example, allowing children to get water and ice from the convenient dispenser outside for use but not to open the fridge or customize the preset settings available in the fridge.
2. Not every fridge with a control panel has a child lock
It's true that refrigerators with child locks are usually refrigerators with external control panels. However, conversely, you need to understand that not every fridge with an external control panel has a child lock.
Signs to identify whether the fridge you're buying has a child lock or control panel lock are the presence of a key symbol on the fridge control panel or a Lock feature. If fridge control panels do not have these easily identifiable signs, you need to ask the seller clearly or carefully read the user manual to know whether your fridge has a child lock function or not. Because many fridge brands design their fridge lock or control panel lock function through the ice making button or door open/close notification.
3. Common types of fridge locks you encounter
Child Lock in English is called Child Lock, however, besides this type of lock, your fridge may also have other types of locks such as Control Lock or Dispenser Lock. Depending on the design of fridge models from different brands, your fridge may have one of these three types of locks or all three locks in the same product.
4. Top 17 refrigerators with child locks you can consider
If you're having difficulty finding and selecting refrigerator models with child locks to consider, here are 17 suggestions you can look into:
- Aqua Inverter Refrigerator 541 liters AQR-S541XA(BL)
- Aqua Inverter Refrigerator 456 liters AQR-IG525AM GB
- LG Inverter Refrigerator GR-B247JDS
- LG Inverter Refrigerator 601 liters GR-D247MC
- Toshiba Inverter Refrigerator 511 liters GR-RF610WE-PGV(22)-XK
- Samsung Inverter Refrigerator 488 liters RF48A4010M9/SV
- LG Inverter InstaView Door-in-Door Refrigerator 601 liters GR-X247MC
- Toshiba Inverter Refrigerator 513 liters GR-RS682WE-PMV(06)-MG
- Aqua Inverter Refrigerator 456 liters AQR-IGW525EM GB
- LG Inverter InstaView Door-in-Door Refrigerator 601 liters GR-X247JS
- Sharp Inverter Refrigerator 401 liters SJ-FXP480VG-BK
- Samsung Inverter Refrigerator 488 liters RF48A4010B4/SV
- Aqua Inverter Refrigerator 480 liters AQR-S480XA(SG)
- Sharp Inverter Refrigerator 401 liters SJ-FXP480VG-CH
- Aqua Inverter Refrigerator 549 liters AQR-IG636FM(GB)
- Beko Inverter Refrigerator 340 liters RDNT371E50VZK
- And Samsung's Family Hub refrigerator lines
5. Pros and cons of refrigerators with child locks
While bringing many benefits to the family such as ensuring safety for children and ensuring that children do not tamper with the pre-set modes according to habit, this child lock feature also brings many constant troubles for housewives such as:
- Having too many refrigerator locks (with types of refrigerators equipped with all 3 types of locks: Child Lock, Control Lock, and Dispenser Lock) can't remember whether they have unlocked or not, sometimes unable to use and mistakenly think the refrigerator is broken.
- Although child locks can prevent them for a certain period, they are smart children who only need to observe carefully how their mother does it, and many of them can still open the lock.
- For refrigerators equipped only with regular locks, children can only not change the preset features on the control panel, but they can still open the fridge, so there are still many risks if they are too mischievous.
- Sometimes, it costs a little to invite a refrigerator repairman to come and see because the fridge is locked and forgotten how to open it due to the lock not being used for a long time, the fridge jumps to lock itself.
