Fridge, Small With Freezer - Condensation Under Freezer, Solutions?

[catdance62]

Hi there
I am new here and have a question about small fridges. I am using a small (dorm-sized) fridge for a cheese cave. The problem is that the
small freezer compartment seems to get a lot of condensation built up in it, presumably because the fridge is warmer than was meant to
be (keeping it at 54 right now for some Brie). I have my cheese in a plastic box with a damp towel between the lid and the box to provide
humidity (not enough, but better than nothing), so water isnt getting dripped on it, but I was wondering if there is anything I can do
about the freezer? I read a couple places not to disconnect it in case it is the mechanism that cools the whole fridge.
Thanks in advance

[Caseus]

Welcome to the forum.

In the wiki there are a couple of useful articles that you may not have seen yet:

Cheese Cave Requirements
Example Cheese Caves

The second one is particularly useful.

I believe your choices are to sponge out the excess moisture as needed, or fashion a drain for it.  If you can make it drain to one spot and drill a hole to the outside and a collection tray, then you may end up having trouble keeping sufficient humidity inside. 

If you just want to keep moisture from dripping on your cheese, get a piece of flexible plastic or metal and make a shield under where it drips and route the water safely to the sides or back of the unit.

There are a number of good threads on cheese caves where people describe how they've dealt with problems in the EQUIPMENT - Aging Cheese, Caves section of the forum.

[Cheese Head]

Caseus, great reply.

catdance, welcome to the forum, to add to Caseus's reply, I have I think a similar style mini-fridge and it also had significant water condensation in the drip tray under the aluminum freezer, I eventually replaced it with a full size kitchen fridge-freezer with an external thermostat. You are correct, you can't disconnect the freezer as that's where the cooling for the fridge comes from, at least on mine it is.

[catdance62]

thank you so much for the replies