I wiped down the bottom basket and door, too. Then I scrubbed down the interior and wiped down the top basket. I used a broom to sweep out most of the gunk, which I picked up with a dust pan and tossed. That’s exactly what I want to do on a rainy Wednesday. To clean out a bottom freezer–at least mine–you have to take it apart. But with side-by-sides, you need only remove the bottom basket to clean it out. Yes, all freezers collect gunk at the bottom, even side-by-sides. Which brings me, in a round about way, to what I hate most about bottom freezers. Once you start, it’s not like you can get sidetracked. That’s the good thing about cleaning the freezer. Which ended up on my counter for a super fast 30-minute purge. We just blindly pull out or push in food and ice as we need it. So much so, we never slide the basket out. The basket swings left or right depending on the hand you use. It doesn’t take a physicist to realize what will happen to the contents of a large, heavy basket allowed to slide on plastic ledges. You slide the basket (and ice) along the ledges. It’s a large basket (with an ice maker) that sits on two ledges. The top drawer? The top drawer isn’t a top drawer. The bottom drawer is too deep to remain tidy. That wouldn’t be a problem if one of the doors shut properly. In order to see anything in the fridge or access the food, I have to open both doors.I feel like I am always shifting things around to get a good fit. Although the width up top is nice, the counter depth never allows me to store much.None of the other refrigerators I’ve owned have come with doors alarms. We had to set the alarm to alert us when the door is open after we woke up to a thawed refrigerator one morning. You have to firmly shut the door swinging it closed isn’t enough. That said, this fridge gives me the fits. It’s nice to have all your food at eye level and if you have a narrow kitchen, like me, the small doors are a must. Theoretically, you have more room up top to store large trays of food. Kidding! (AM I?)Īrmoire refrigerators look nice. I’m sure many of you have a similar refrigerator, and I am sure many of you adore your bottom freezer. We bought a stainless steel French door/armoire refrigerator, which we now affectionately refer to as “that thing that blows.” By God, this time I was going to have a fancy food cooler right off the runway, or where ever it is they reveal newly designed appliances. We had to buy something counter depth if we planned to use the kitchen for activities like cooking, standing, and opening cabinets. When we moved to this house, our standard size refrigerator dwarfed the room. We bought a white side-by-side refrigerator, a Kenmore, and for the life of me I can’t remember what we did with it when we moved. If they came in stainless steel, they were probably expensive and definitely not included in our new, builder basic 1100 square foot home. Appliances like stoves and ovens, I think, were still white. When the Mister and I were first married, stainless steel refrigerators were just coming into style.
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