French Door Fridge With Ice Maker
French door refrigerators are designed to sit flush against the counters in your kitchen. This gives them a sleek, attractive appearance. This slim design also conserves space in the freezer.
Before buying, verify the exact dimensions to ensure that it is suitable for your home, suggests Hernandez. You'll need to ensure there's enough room for ventilation from all sides and that the doors open fully without hitting cabinets or obstructing the hallway.
Bosch Counter Depth French Door Refrigerator
Bosch is a premium brand with a reputation for high-end refrigerators. The counter-depth French-door models from Bosch are flush with your countertop for a built in design. The refrigerators are energy efficient and quiet, and have a smart-home feature that lets you manage them using your smartphone or tablet. The fridge also offers plenty of storage space to store your food items and leftovers. This model has an ice maker that produces fresh, filtered ice automatically. It's simple to use too. The ice and water dispensers are inside the fridge instead of in the front, so 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 has a durable stainless steel finish that resists scratches and dents. It's fingerprint-resistant, too. If you're worried about smudges, look into a cleaning product that eliminates fingerprints without harsh chemicals.
This refrigerator comes with a large interior space of 20.5 cubic feet, and Bosch's exclusive farmfresh system that has four cutting-edge freshness technology that ensure that fruits, vegetables and leftovers fresh up to three times longer than the average. The freezer's temperatures are near-perfect, with a range of less than a fraction away from ideal.
The Bosch refrigerator costs more than the GE Appliances version, but it has more features. It's worth the extra cost. It has a door-in the door storage area where you can keep small quantities of food items in a bin that fits right into the door of the fridge. It also comes with a convertible compartment that has five temperature settings to suit different kinds of snacks, drinks and meat. The Bosch refrigerator comes with an intelligent home feature called Home Connect that allows you to manage it remotely via your tablet or phone.
The only downsides to this fridge are its thin main drawer as well as the difficult to use main door latch on the right. The refrigerator is a great option for kitchenettes as well as single households that need more space than a French-door refrigerator can offer. The stainless steel is a beautiful addition to any kitchen.
LG Counter Depth French Door Refrigerator
LG counter-depth fridges are compact and offer a lot of space. They're also priced less than standard-depth French door fridges and can eliminate the requirement for a separate under-counter freezer. The LG Smart Mirror InstaView Counter-Depth Refrigerator (LMWC23626S) that offers the capacity of a standard refrigerator in modern and sleek design, isn't an exception. It also features an internal dispenser that gives 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 are spacious of space, and the top shelf can fold down to create a half-depth shelf that can hold taller items. A set of crisper drawers can be found in the lower part of the refrigerator and the full-width deli drawer is suitable for meat or produce.
A recessible ice maker is located on the back wall of the refrigerator, which saves space and makes it easier to store an additional bag of ice. french door fridge freezer is equipped with door cooling that uses vents on the fridge and freezer doors to let cold air into. It helps to prevent hot spots and helps keep temperatures more uniform throughout the fridge.
This LG refrigerator stood out during our tests. It has plenty of space to feed a family, but we noticed a few unsettling quirks. First the freezer drawers do not stay at the temperature we'd like. The temperature of the middle drawer reached 41° during our maximum use test, which is the temperature needed to freeze ice cream and other frozen food items. The temperature of the rest of the freezer was about 36 degrees.
Another issue is that the refrigerator doors have sunken handles on the inside and underneath, which make it hard for people who are shorter to comfortably guide them closed. It might seem like a minor thing but we prefer front mounted handles on refrigerators, as they are more convenient to open and close.
The fridge is expensive, but it's worth it for anyone who wants an ultra-modern appearance in their kitchen. We recommend this fridge to those looking to upgrade their current fridge or are building a new home and want to have a seamless design 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 performed well in our cooling test, but we don't like the gimmicky handles or fragile crisper bins.
One thing that sets the RF23M8090SG apart is the Bespoke line that lets you personalize your fridge with removable colored panels that can be swapped out when you're tired of the current ones. There are 11 colors that range from pastels to more vibrant hues. There are four metallic finishes. Some of these panels can be customized by adding photos or text making the fridge a more personal feature that can be matched to your tie-dye Crocs, Rick Owens dress or Andy Warhol banana neon sign.
You can even alter the color of the fridge's LED lighting, which is nice. And the refrigerator's interior is finished with a sophisticated finish that helps reduce smudges and makes cleaning much easier. The only real flaws of the RF23M8090SG is its crowded beverage center, as well as a little learning curve to access the door-indoor feature that houses a water dispenser and a pitcher. You need to feel for the lever on the underside midway down the door. When you locate it, the second door opens inside the fridge, which houses the docking station for the pitcher and the water dispenser.
The 6.8 cubic-foot freezer compartment is big enough to hold a lot of frozen food items and features an impressive slide-out drawer system that lets you access whichever food you're looking for without opening the entire compartment. The freezer also features an ice-cream bin style compartment to store small items, and a large capacity drawer for storage to store larger quantities of frozen food. This drawer is locked with a password, ensuring that unwanted guests are kept out. It also 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 bills by with the SmartThings Energy Mode.
Frigidaire Counter Depth French Door Refrigerator
French door refrigerators are an excellent addition to any kitchen. They look clean and are suitable for all sizes of rooms. If you want the convenience of this design without the height, a counter-depth fridge is the best choice. This model from Frigidaire that we've extensively tested and has received an above average rating in our evaluations due to its reasonable price and thoughtful features such as an adjustable temperature drawer.
It also has a few annoying issues. Our test data indicates that the FGHB2866PF warms up quite some in the freezer, and it can be uncomfortable warm in the fridge's innermost shelving. Our heat maps show how temperature changes minute by minute. The orange region in the upper right, which represents the butter bin, has been particularly warm for most of the time we tested. That might not seem so awful at first glance however, it means that the fridge is spending a large portion of its time above 33 degrees.
It's worth noting that this model isn't Energy Star certified, which could be important to some buyers. The real problem is that the fridge isn't the best. It's lacking advanced features and durable construction, making it difficult to recommend it over better options at this price point.
In many ways, the Frigidaire looks and feels like the stainless steel version of a fridge you might see in your local appliances store. It's a great option with a brushed finish that looks great and is resistant against scratches. However it's not able to distinguish itself from its competitors who are more feature rich and more affordable.
However, if you're looking for a low-cost counter-depth French door refrigerator but don't have the budget to spend a lot on our top picks and the FGHC2331PF is worth considering. It's got enough storage to meet the needs of the majority of families and does a great job at keeping food fresh. Even if it's not an energy-efficient model, it doesn't have the same price tag more than our top-rated models do.