The light that refrigerators use appears in the 6500k range, am I correct. Any reason manufacturers would not use 2700k high CRI since it would make the food look better.
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Hard to second guess, but my assumption is because it looks “modern” and “crisp”.
I agree a neutral light would look better, 4000-4500k would be my sweet spot.
I just checked, and my refrigerator uses small incandescent bulb - super high CRI by definition.
Same here.
Pretty sure they simply don’t know about or it is cheaper to use low CRI cool white LEDs. My 250 euro fridge from 2018 also uses horribly blueish low CRI emitters.
Would be interesting what LEDs in expensive fridges (1000 euro+) would look like.
If I have to choose emitters for lighting food, I would go with high CRI 4500 - 5000 K ones, with negative duv (-0.005 or so)
I suspect because nobody who isn’t a member here cares. TBH I don’t care myself, as long as I can see where the cheese is when I open the door I’m good.
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My fridge uses E14 bulb. It used to be a incan light, warm and dim. I replaced it with a E14 LED bulb, 6500K and 80 CRI, before I knew better.
It’s not easy to find a small profile E14 bulb that is both NW and high CRI. I could reflow the emitters if they are 2835 format, but the one I bought uses some weird COB emitters that’s impossible to replace so I’m stuck with it for now.
Yes, this could be the most plausible reason for using cheap emitters. It is important to see the cheese, and if it is rotten or not 
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The last fridge I had that actually had a light in it was around 3k…( old school from the late 80s or early 90s, EVERYTHING was incan and no colder than 4.5k… Dang I miss those days! )
Been using a mini fride for a decade, no light, And I dont miss it…
Since the food is wrapped, or not visible at all in a container, going with lower cost emitters that could also be less expensive to drive would be a very attractive option for manufacturers.
It tends not to be around long enough to go rotten in my house. 
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Sure. The warmer color temperature the higher risk of warming up the fridge interior, right? It’s obvious
I think every new refrigerator made in last 5 years uses LED and they always seems be super cool white.
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No you dont.
I dont miss incandescent lights at all. I keep a few around to remember where we came from.
Am I reading that right, 5500k?
Yeah. Odd value, but nice neutral white. And CRI >80 and R9 of 60 (if the Opple is not being confused again)
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Unfortunately this is always possible.
Is this Miele light greenish? duv indicated it, 0.0089 seems to be pretty high.
I was confused by that reading too, it seemed pretty neutral to me… Might be because everything is white inside the fridge. Dunno. Or my Opple does Opple things.
This would only makes sense if the white coating in the fridge is slightly greenish in color (hopefully not ) - or green containers in the fridge, since you surely not taken out everything just for measurement.
I think, Opple reading is messed up, especially if no green tint is visible…
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