French Door Fridge With Ice Maker
French door refrigerators are designed to be flush against your kitchen counters. This gives them a sleek, attractive appearance. The slim design helps save space for the freezer.
Before purchasing, make sure to check the exact dimensions to ensure it's appropriate for your home, suggests Hernandez. Be sure to leave enough space to allow to allow for air circulation from all sides and that the doors are able to 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 appearance. The fridges are quiet and efficient, and include a smart-home function which lets you control them with your phone or tablet. The fridge also offers plenty of storage space for your leftovers and groceries. The model comes with an ice maker that can make fresh, filtered ice automatically. It's simple to use as well. The ice and water dispensers are located inside the fridge rather than being on the front, which means they don't detract from the sleek look of the exterior. The dispensers can be used with any cold beverage, including juice and sports drinks. This refrigerator is finished in an extremely durable stainless-steel material that resists scratches. It's fingerprint-resistant, too. If you're worried about smudges on your surfaces, you can use an item that cleans fingerprints with no harsh chemicals.
This refrigerator is spacious with 20.5 cubic feet of interior space. It includes Bosch's exclusive FarmFresh System featuring four cutting-edge freshness technologies to ensure that fruits, vegetables and leftovers fresh for three times longer than normal. The freezer's temperatures are close to perfect, and not varying less than a fraction of a degree from an ideal temperature.
The Bosch refrigerator costs more than the GE Appliances version, but it has more features. It is worth the extra expense. It comes with a door-in-door storage area, where you can put a small amount of food in a bin that fits right in the fridge door, and it features a drawer that converts to five temperature settings designed to accommodate different types of beverages, snacks, meat, and wine. The Bosch fridge also has an intelligent home feature called Home Connect that allows you to control the fridge remotely using your smartphone or tablet.
The only drawbacks to the refrigerator is its flimsy main drawer and difficult-to-use main door latch to the right. The fridge is an excellent choice for kitchenettes and single households which require more storage space than a standard 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 a small footprint. They're also priced lower than standard-depth French door refrigerators and remove the need for a separate smaller under-counter freezer. The LG Smart Mirror InstaView Counter-Depth Refrigerator (LMWC23626S) is a refrigerator that has the capacity of a standard fridge in a sleek and modern design, is no exception. It also comes with an internal dispenser that gives easy access to 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 are roomy and the top shelf can be folded down to create half-depth shelves that allow higher-height items to fit. The bottom of the fridge has a set of crisper drawers, and the deli drawer with its full width is ideal for meat or fresh produce.
The refrigerator features a recessible freezer on the back wall. This helps save space and lets you store more bags of ice. The refrigerator is equipped with door-cooling technology that makes use of vents in the doors of the fridge and freezer to let cold air enter the refrigerator. It helps prevent hot spots and helps keep temperatures consistent throughout the fridge.
This LG refrigerator stands out in our tests and has plenty of space to ensure that your family is well-fed However, it does have a few quirks that we found annoying. First the freezer drawers do not remain as cold as we would like. The middle drawer sat at 41 degrees during our maximum testing, which is warm enough to serve ice cream and other frozen items. The temperature of the rest of the freezer was about 36 degrees.
Another issue is that the refrigerator doors have handles that are sunken on the inside and underneath making it difficult for shorter people to comfortably close them. This may seem minor however we prefer front-mounted handles on refrigerators, as they are more convenient to open and close.
The fridge is costly however it is worth it for anyone looking to have an elegant look for their kitchen. We recommend this refrigerator for those looking to upgrade their current fridge or are building a new home and want to have a seamless style for their kitchen.
Samsung Counter Depth French Door Refrigerator
The RF23M8090SG is Samsung's newest and most elegant counter-depth French door refrigerator, priced at $4,200. It's a good-looking model that boasts useful features like an autofill water pitcher and a temperature-adjustable "FlexZone" drawer. It also does well in our cooling tests, although we're not too fond of its plastic handles and the crisper bins are a bit flimsy.
Bespoke is an option that makes the RF23M8090SG stand out. It allows you to personalize your refrigerator using removable colored panels. There are 11 different colors with pastels through more vibrant shades. There are also four metallic finishes. Some of these panels can be personalized with text or photos making the fridge a more personal touch point that can match your tie-dye Crocs, Rick Owens dress or Andy Warhol banana neon sign.
You can even change the color of the fridge's LED lighting, which is pretty. The interior of the refrigerator has a smart finish which reduces the chance of smudges, and also makes cleaning easy. The only real drawbacks of the RF23M8090SG are its cramped beverage center, and it takes some effort to access the door-indoor feature that houses a water dispenser as well as an ice maker. It is important to locate the lever that is located under midway down the door. When you locate it the second door opens inside the fridge, which houses the docking station for the pitcher as well as the water dispenser.
The 6.8 cubic-foot freezer compartment is large enough to store a wide range of frozen food items and features an impressive slide-out drawer system that allows you to access the food you're searching for without opening the entire compartment. There's also a butter bin-style compartment in the freezer for easy storage of small items and a drawer with a huge capacity that stores bulkier frozen items. This drawer is lockable with a password, ensuring that unwanted guests are kept out. Frydge has an efficient LED to help you see what's inside at an instant. The freezer can also track the energy consumption and help you lower your power bill with the SmartThings Energy Mode.
Frigidaire Counter Depth French Door Refrigerator
French door refrigerators add a sleek look to any kitchen, and they fit well in a variety of room sizes. If you're looking for the convenience of this style without the additional height, a counter-depth refrigerator is the best choice. This Frigidaire model which we've thoroughly tested and has received an above average rating in our reviews due to its affordable price and thoughtful features, such as an adjustable temperature drawer.
However, it has a couple of nagging problems. Our test data suggests that the FGHB2866PF can warm up quite often in the freezer and become uncomfortable hot in the hottest shelves of the refrigerator. Our heat maps show how temperature fluctuates minute-by-minute. The orange region in the upper right, which represents the butter bin, has been particularly warm for most of our testing period. It might not seem to be a problem at first, but the fridge spends most of its time above 32 degrees.
It's important to note that this model isn't Energy Star certified, which could be important for some buyers. The issue is that it's not a particularly great fridge, and the lack of advanced features and durable construction make it hard to recommend it over better models in this price range.
This Frigidaire fridge is identical to the stainless steel version you might find in your local appliance store. It's a great choice, with a brushed-finish that looks attractive and is resistant to scratches. However, it doesn't offer much to differentiate itself from rivals which are more feature-rich and less expensive.
However, if you're looking for a cheap counter-depth French door fridge and don't have the budget to splurge on our best picks, then the FGHC2331PF is worth a look. It's got enough storage to meet the needs of many families and does a great job keeping food fresh. Even if it's not an energy-efficient model, it doesn't even come close to costing more than our top-rated models do.