Im thinking of buying....

[seamusuk]

A "small" new fridge freezer- I live alone so this could be classed as a bit OTT I guess, but would be good for storing loadsa Magners (Irish cider)..........

Would cost me just under £500- what do ya all think????#

Seamus

http://uk.lge.com/prodmodeldetail.d...=06&modelCodeDisplay=GRB207TUJA&model=NOTHING

 

[oxydolfan1]

That's a lotta cider!! LOL....

I actually really like the LG refrigerators.

 

[seamusuk]

At the moment....

I have 2 LEC fridge freezers that id guess have a total of 7 cuft fridge space and 6 odd cuft freezer. By the time ive stocked up on BOGOF offers for the freezer and put a 5kg bag of potatoes in one of the salad drawers it wont actually be that over large- plus I should save 150 odd KWH of power per year

Seamus

 

[petek]

I wouldn't have another side by side fridge myself. We left ours behind in Calgary when we moved last August and I don't miss it one iota. Even though it was the largest of the large and even had 3 doors (two freezer doors on the left side) the interior of both sides is too narrow and you're forever jiggling stuff around to get at something behind something else. You can't even fit a leftover pizza box in them on the horizontal. What I really like is the "all fridge" we bought from the previous owners of this new house, bags o room in there. So long as you have a seperate freezer which we do. If not I'd have just gotten a full size french door with the freezer on the bottom. They seem to be becoming the "au courant" thing these days along with the plain two door freezer on the bottom type. Side by sides me thinks have had their day over the last 25 years and people don't like them as much anymore for that reason.
Maytag had the best idea with their Wide By Side but they've disappeared it seems.. The division of the freezer/fridge portion was offset top and bottom so you got a wider fridge portion for the top half narrowing at the bottom. And a wider freezer portion at the bottom which narrowed at the top.

 

[dalangdon]

Amen, Pete!

I can't stand side-by-sides. My mom always gets them, and they are impossible to work with. I think Mom watched too many games shows in the 70's, and thinks side-by-sides are "classy". ;-)

Plus, the latest fridge she bought is the hugest, most obnoxious sized refrigerator EVER. It's way too big for her, and for her kitchen. To her credit, she knows it. The salesperson at a certain Omaha furniture store pressured her into it. We now have an agreement: No appliance purchases without me there, and no more visits to that store (you'd think she would have learned her lesson after the unfortunate shag rug incident of 1978, but apparently not ;-)

 

[foraloysius]

Side-by-side fridges are becoming very fashionable here. You see them more and more in the stores here. Whirlpool, Samsung, Amana and Bosch are the brands that you see here most. In comparison to European fridges they have more features, perhaps that is what people like about them. But you need a lot of space, much more than my bijou kitchen.

 

[danemodsandy]

FEH!

I cannot abide side-by-side reefers, except for Sub-Zero's, which are not exactly affordable for the average person. The reason is that most are too effin' DEEP- stuff works its way to the back and gets lost. Sub-Zero units are wider and shallower than most, so they're reasonably okay, if pricey.

My mom had a GE for a while that was the Depth King of all time- you damn near had to climb inside to reach stuff in the back. It also had more problems with the water and ice dispenser (already a notorious problem area on a lot of brands) than any other reefer I've ever heard of.

I don't know what side-by-side units are like in your country, but please look at them carefully, to judge whether a unit is too deep from front to back.

As always, the setup I like best is a refrigerator that has only a small ice-maker compartment instead of a full freezer, and an upright frost-free freezer right next to it. Lotsa room.

 

[petek]

Bijou apt LOL,, thats what my sister calls hers.

 

[foraloysius]

Well, in a way we are sisters too! LOL

 

[oxydolfan1]

I can't STAND side-by-side refrigerators, but, in retrospect, even though it would have been several hundred dollars more, I do wish I could have had a bottom-freezer unit (I initially ordered one, but it wouldn't fit inside my entrance foyer, duh...)