French Door Fridge With Ice Maker
Unlike standard refrigerators, French door refrigerators can be positioned flush with your kitchen counters for a sleek look. This sleek design also helps save space in the freezer.
Hernandez recommends that you be sure to verify the exact dimensions prior purchasing to ensure that it's a good fit for your home. Make sure there is enough room to allow for air circulation from all sides, and that the doors can fully open without hitting the cabinets or blocking the hallway.
Bosch Counter Depth French Door Refrigerator
Bosch is a top refrigerator brand with an established reputation for producing top-quality products. Their counter-depth French door models blend with your counters for an integrated look. The refrigerators are efficient and quiet and include smart-home features that let you control the fridge using your tablet or phone. The fridge is large enough to hold space for leftovers and groceries. This model features an ice maker that makes fresh, filtered ice on the spot. It's easy to use, too. The ice and water dispensers are inside the fridge, not in the front, so they don't detract from the sleek appearance of the exterior. The dispensers can be used with any cold beverage such as sports drinks and juice. The refrigerator is made of a tough stainless steel that is resistant to scratches. It's fingerprint-resistant, too. If you're concerned about smudges forming on your surfaces, use a cleaning product that removes fingerprints without harsh chemicals.
This refrigerator features a generous interior space of 20.5 cubic feet and Bosch's patented farmfresh system with four cutting-edge freshness technologies that ensure that fruits, vegetables and leftovers at least three times as long as the average. Its freezer temperatures are also near-perfect, with a range of less than a fraction of a degree away from the ideal.
The Bosch refrigerator costs more than the GE Appliances version, but it comes with more features. It's worth the extra expense. It comes with a door in the door storage area where you can store small amounts of food in a bin which fits right into the refrigerator's door. It also comes with a convertible compartment that has five temperature settings for various kinds of snacks, drinks and meat. The Bosch fridge also has an intelligent home feature called Home Connect, which allows you to control it remotely using your smartphone or tablet.
The only drawbacks to the refrigerator is its flimsy main drawer and the difficult-to-use main door latch to the right. The refrigerator is nevertheless ideal for single households and kitchenettes that require more storage space than a typical French-door refrigerator. The stainless steel complements any kitchen beautifully.
LG Counter Depth French Door Refrigerator
LG counter-depth refrigerators provide plenty of storage into small footprints. They're also priced more affordably than standard-depth French door refrigerators and remove the necessity for a separate, smaller under-counter freezer. The LG Smart Mirror InstaView Counter-Depth Refrigerator (LMWC23626S), which offers the capacity of a standard fridge in an elegant and contemporary design, isn't any different. It also has an internal dispenser that provides easy access to filtered drinking water.
This model's exterior showcases a fingerprint-resistant stainless steel finish and a mirrored InstaView panel that adds to the modern look of the interior. The door bins have plenty of space, and the top shelf can be folded down to create a half-depth shelf that can accommodate larger items. A set of crisper drawers are located in the lower part of the refrigerator and the full-width deli drawer can be used for meat or produce.
The refrigerator is equipped with a recessed icemaker on the back wall. This reduces space and lets you store more ice bags. The refrigerator uses door cooling which makes use of vents in the door of the fridge and freezer to let cold air into. It prevents hot spots and keeps temperatures more consistent throughout the refrigerator.
This LG refrigerator is a standout in our tests and offers plenty of capacity to ensure that your family is well-fed However, it does have a few issues that we found annoying. First the freezer drawers do not remain at the temperature we'd like. The middle drawer reached 41 degrees during our peak usage test, which is warm enough for ice cream and other frozen food items. The temperature of the rest of the freezer remained about 36 degrees.
The refrigerator doors also have handles with sunken handles that are difficult for people with shorter arms to close. It may seem like a minor issue but we prefer front mounted handles on refrigerators, as they are simpler to open and close.
The fridge is expensive, but it's worth the money for anyone who wants an ultra-modern look for their kitchen. This refrigerator is ideal for those looking to upgrade their current refrigerator or those who are building new homes and want a seamless look in the kitchen.
Samsung Counter Depth French Door Refrigerator
Samsung's newest counter-depth French-door fridge model, the RF23M8090SG is priced at $4200. It's a good-looking model that boasts useful features like an autofill water pitcher and a temperature-adjustable "FlexZone" drawer. It also did well in our cooling test, however we don't like the gimmicky handles or the plastic crisper bins.
Bespoke is an option that makes the RF23M8090SG stand out. It allows you to personalize your refrigerator with removable colored panels. There are 11 colors to choose from including soft pastels, brighter hues and four metallic finishes. Some of the panels can be customized with text or photos, making the fridge a personal feature that can be matched to your tie-dye Crocs, Rick Owens dress or Andy Warhol banana neon sign.
You can also alter the color of the refrigerator's LED lighting, which is a nice touch. The interior of the refrigerator has a smart finish which reduces smudges, and makes cleaning a breeze. The RF23M8090SG's only real knocks are its somewhat congested beverage center and some learning curve when it comes to opening the door-indoor feature that houses a water pitcher as well as dispenser. You have to feel for an opening on the side of the door that is halfway across, and when you've done that the lever, it opens another door inside the fridge, which houses the docking station for the pitcher, the water dispenser and two shelves for drinks.
The 6.8 cubic feet freezer compartment is big enough to hold a large amount of frozen food items. It also comes with a slide-out drawer that lets you access the food you need without opening the entire compartment. There's also a butter-bin-style storage compartment in the freezer to allow for easy storage of small items, and a large capacity drawer that stores bulkier frozen items. This drawer is lockable with a password, so that unwanted guests are kept out. It also comes with an efficient LED to help you see what's inside at an instant. The freezer can also monitor energy usage and help you reduce your energy bill by through the SmartThings Energy Mode.
Frigidaire Counter Depth French Door Refrigerator
French door refrigerators add a clean appearance to any kitchen and they are suitable for a variety of room sizes. If you want the convenience of this design without the additional height, a counter-depth fridge is the way to go. We've tested many of them, and this particular Frigidaire model has earned an above-average score in our ratings due to its reasonable price and thoughtful features such as an adjustable temperature drawer.
Frydge has some irritating problems. Our tests show that the FGHB2866PF warms up quite a bit in the freezer, and it can be uncomfortable warm in the fridge's interior shelves. This is evident in our heat maps, which show how interior temps fluctuate minute by minute. The orange region in the top right, representing the butter bin, is especially warm throughout our testing period. It might not appear too bad at first however, it means that the fridge is spending a large portion of its time above 33 degrees.
It's worth mentioning that this model isn't Energy Star certified, which could be important to certain buyers. But the real problem here is that it's not a particularly great fridge, and the absence of top-of-the-line features and durable construction make it hard to recommend over better options at this price point.
In many ways, this Frigidaire feels like the stainless-steel version of a fridge that you might see on display at the local appliance store. It's a great option with a brushed-finish that looks attractive and is resistant to smudges. However it's not able to distinguish itself from its competitors who are more feature rich and cost less.
If you're looking for a counter-depth French-door fridge, but don't want spend a lot of money, the FGHC2331PF could be worth a look. It's got enough storage to meet the needs of the majority of families and does a good job keeping food fresh. Even even if it's not an energy efficient model, it's considerably less expensive than our top-rated models.