new fridge thoughts
We just (yesterday!) replaced a large-ish Amana
bottom-mount freezer with the 25cf LG French Door model. This door configuration
(with smaller clearances required to open doors) will improve the layout in our
planned kitchen remodel.
Since I
already had a bottom-mount freezer, that part isn't so different - except this
one has the bottom shelf connected to the door (my old freezer did not). It
looks deeper and I fear losing things, but I haven't moved into the freezer yet
so won't comment on that.
The interior
shelves slide out - I am going to make the effort to use that feature. The deli
shelf is intriguing, and seems more functional than the 5-inch deep half-width
deli drawer we had before although it is kind of annoying that we have to open
both doors to put away a block of
cheese.
My main complaint after 1 day
of use: the old Amana had 1 full-width and 6 half-width door shelves, with
spacers about 2 inches apart, for an amazing array of configuration options. In
our new LG, only the middle shelf on each side is adjustable, and there are only
3 places for it to go. Things I've gotten used to having on the door, no longer
fit, so I need to rethink my fridge organization. I'm sure I will get over it,
but that's my first impression. Take home message: take a good look at the door
storage configuration!
One more thing:
we were prone to overloading our produce drawers during certain parts of the
summer. The plastic shelf supports in our previous Amana cracked in the past
year or two and had to be replaced. (Fridge was maybe 10 years old then.) When i
was looking at refrigerators, it seems like most has metal brackets for standard
shelves, but some were using plastic for the produce drawer runner supports. Pay
attention to that feature.
Posted: Sat
- January 15, 2005 at 01:15 AM