primitives discuss refrigerators

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1158740

Oh my.

It's pretty boring in the cooking and baking forum tonight--maybe the fecund grasswire primitive's off somewhere reading up on franksolich--and so I had to go next door, to the do-it-yourself forum.

hedgehog (26,499 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

What's the best style for a refrigerator/freezer?

Side-by-side, freezer on top, freezer on the bottom?

intaglio (3,068 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

1. Or inconvenient, but energy efficient

a chest freezer with separate fridge

Laurian (98 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

2. I purchased a new refrigerator about a year ago.

I got one that has french doors on the refrigerator with a pull out freezer on the bottom. I'm very happy with it. The french doors along with the adjustable shelves in the refrigerator compartment work really well for storing large platters and bulky items during holidays, etc., but the shelves are easily reconfigured for every day use.

The pull out freezer has lots of space and I am able to find what I'm looking for without shuffling a lot of stuff around. I previously had a side by side and found that frozen foods would sometimes get buried and lost to the point that it became difficult to know exactly what I had in there. For me, the freezer drawer is much easier to keep organized.

I hope you find one you like. It's a big purchase and one that gets so much use that it's important to find the one that best suits your needs.

postulater (2,712 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

3. Hanging horizontal on the wall above the counter

Ours has two fridge doors and a third freezer door. It's just the right height, at eye level, so everything is easy to see and reach.

Too bad they stopped making them in the mid 1950s.

CottonBear (16,430 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

4. What brand and model do you have?

Can you post a picture or any info?

postulater (2,712 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

5. Ours is like the one in this photo

We have the brown, it also comes in yellow and turquiose, I think.

Runs like a Deere. Not very energy efficient, I'm sure, since the thremostat seems to not kick in an out as accurately as it should. And I dread when it finally goes we will have to significantly modify the kitchen to fit a 'real' refrigerator in. In the twenty-some years we have owned the house I have only had to replace a fan and some rotten wires.

http://vintagraph.com/blog/the-ge-wall-mounted-refrigerator.html

Ruby the Liberal (14,539 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

6. I have a side by side and if I were to do it all over again, I would go with 1 or 2 fridge doors on the top and a pull out freezer on the bottom.

Holidays are a pain as the fridge isn't wide enough for a platter. It barely holds a large-sized pizza box (almost an exact fit).

jeff47 (3,252 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

7. All of them.

There's positives and negatives for each layout.

The most energy efficient is freezer-on-top, followed by freezer-on-bottom, followed by side-by-side.

Freezer-on-top tends to be less usable day-to-day, because you have to bend down for the fridge. And we use the fridge much more than the freezer.

Freezer-on-bottom has the disadvantage of being harder to find stuff in the freezer. You also can't do ice in the door with a freezer-on-bottom fridge.

Side-by-side solves those accessibility problems, but it's harder to put large things in the fridge and freezer.

It kinda comes down to what your priorities are and how you use your fridge.

The defrocked warped primitive, she with the face like Hindenberg's, who's been banned for life from nursing:

Warpy (62,727 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

8. My next one is going to have the freezer on the bottom. I want the fridge, which I use more often, at eye level. Right now I have a side by side fridge/freezer and it sucks ass, neither side being wide enough and the bottom of the freezer prone to growing a glacier.

The freezer was on the top in most models for years because that's where the coils were, the cold air sinking though the fridge and keeping everything there cool. They're not constructed that way any longer and there's no reason to have it on the top except silly convention.

[Ballygrl]

We have the freezer on top but I'd love a side by side, but the way the kitchen is configured I have no room for the side by side. I know a couple of people who have the freezer on the bottom but it's hardly any room at all. I like the persons comment who said a stand alone refrigerator and stand alone freezer, but I have no room for that at all in the kitchen. We have a refrigerator with freezer on top down in the basement and a separate stand alone freezer and it works for us.

[BEG]

jeff47 (3,252 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

7. All of them.

There's positives and negatives for each layout.

The most energy efficient is freezer-on-top, followed by freezer-on-bottom, followed by side-by-side.

Freezer-on-top tends to be less usable day-to-day, because you have to bend down for the fridge. And we use the fridge much more than the freezer.

Freezer-on-bottom has the disadvantage of being harder to find stuff in the freezer. You also can't do ice in the door with a freezer-on-bottom fridge.

Side-by-side solves those accessibility problems, but it's harder to put large things in the fridge and freezer.

It kinda comes down to what your priorities are and how you use your fridge.

No true, my new refrigerator has ice and water in the door with a freezer on the bottom. I love the middle drawer, we store beer, soda and juice in it. Also I really love the bottom freezer, I can actually store more in it than my side by side.

[Ballygrl]

No true, my new refrigerator has ice and water in the door with a freezer on the bottom. I love the middle drawer, we store beer, soda and juice in it. Also I really love the bottom freezer, I can actually store more in it than my side by side.

Oh that's nice! I like the middle drawer feature.

[franksolich]

Whoa.

I just went to the vintagraph link the primitive kindly gave us, to take a gander at those antique hanging refrigerators.

Man, those I like.

They're cool.  One wonders why they're not sold any more.

[Ballygrl]

WOW! that vintage 1 doesn't look big enough though.

[franksolich]

WOW! that vintage 1 doesn't look big enough though.

Geezuz.

What do you need?  Something the size of Dover Castle?

[BEG]

Oh that's nice! I like the middle drawer feature.

You can set the temp different for the middle drawer, so you can set it just above freezing for drinks, a warmer setting for fruits and vegitables or whatever you would put in the refrigerator and just below freezing (I believe 29 degrees) for meat.

[NHSparky]

I know what I have--side-by-side with an icemaker and water dispenser in the freezer door.  That's nice, but it means I have to have the chest freezer downstairs.

What's the Mega Millions up to now?

[thundley4]

I know what I have--side-by-side with an icemaker and water dispenser in the freezer door.  That's nice, but it means I have to have the chest freezer downstairs.

What's the Mega Millions up to now?

363 million, but you're out of luck, I'm winning it tonight. 

[franksolich]

WOW! that vintage 1 doesn't look big enough though.

Now, I just grabbed the Stanley tape-measure and got the size of the refrigerator here.

As I'm only one person, it doesn't get much use; it's probably only ever opened two, three, times a day.

It's 72" tall, 36" thick, and 40" wide.  I heard one time it's a restaurant-grade icebox, from circa 40 years ago.

The brand-nameplate wore off a long time ago.  

It's a duplex; freezer occupies top one-third, regular refrigerator bottom two-thirds.

[Ballygrl]

Geezuz.

What do you need?  Something the size of Dover Castle?

frank, we have 2 refrigerator freezers and 1 stand alone freezer going at all times LOL.

[GOP Congress]

Amazing. A thread where primitives discuss normal things with intelligence, and spark ideas that lead to concurring or at least collaborative discussions in our forum.

Oh, well, a stopped clock is right twice a day, so take it as we can get it.

[ScubaGuy]

No true, my new refrigerator has ice and water in the door with a freezer on the bottom. I love the middle drawer, we store beer, soda and juice in it. Also I really love the bottom freezer, I can actually store more in it than my side by side.

We just got that same model about a month ago when our side by side bit the big one.

I love it.  Easy to keep organized and a ton of space.

[JohnnyReb]

A medium size IGLOO ice chest should do the 99% nicely...occupooper friendly too.

[franksolich]

What's the Mega Millions up to now?

Nobody won it last night, and so now it's up to $476 million.

I ordered my usual three tickets, but the clerk erred and did four instead, so I bought the extra one as insurance.

[Rebel]

Nobody won it last night, and so now it's up to $476 million.

I ordered my usual three tickets, but the clerk erred and did four instead, so I bought the extra one as insurance.

We're doing an office pool and I'm buying extras for myself.

[BlueStateSaint]

We're doing an office pool and I'm buying extras for myself.

We always do an office pool when the prize gets to nine digits.  I've snagged a few tix for myself, too.