Experience with fridge with freezer on the bottom

[Anonymous]

I'm wondering how people find fridges with freezers on the bottom. Is it like searching for an item at the bottom of a toy box? I do like to freeze a lot of items so am likely to pack every available inch.

I need to buy a new fridge but my choices are constrained by a small built in space - no more than 33" wide and 67" high. I can't find any French door models that meet those criteria.

What are the pros and cons of a side by side vs top freezer vs bottom freezer?

[Anonymous]

I don't think the bottom freezer has much room and things still tend to get lost in there. My kids can oper the freezer themselves and hang on it...

[Anonymous]

My parents had one for a while and we all really disliked it. It didn't have anywhere near the amount of storage space their old traditional freezer on top unit had and it was really hard to find anything that wasn't at the top of the heap. My nephews kept trying to pull out the freezer drawer and use it as a step stool to reach things in the fridge. It was also easy to miss that the drawer wasn't shut all the way so it would be leaking cold air like crazy without anyone noticing.

[Anonymous]

Ours has two levels, so It's easier to organize. And the new models all seem to have alarms on the doors that chime if something is open too long.

We are very happy with ours. it stays pretty well organized.

[Anonymous]

Guess I'm the outlier but I prefer ours to the transitional style. It has a sliding shelf at the top and a divider on the bottom, so not too hard to organize. Feels bigger than the traditional kind.

[Anonymous]

I'm European and have always lived with freezers on the bottom - seems to make more sense than the other way around, since it's logical to put items you use most at eye level, which for an adult is the top part.

I currently have a French door. The fridge doors are light and easy to open and don't block anything. The freezer has a bottom and a top compartment, so there is no mess.

[Anonymous]

We moved to this and like it. Much more space in the fridge area.

It depends on how you eat and cook. Most of our foods are fresh, so the frozen area is accessed a lot less often than the fridge area. When we do go into the freezer, you do need to rummage through some stuff (sort of.. it does have drawers) but we know where the item is.. usually some deep-frozen item or frozen vegs.

If we did a lot more eating and cooking from frozen, I could see the drawback to it.

[Anonymous]

When we had the freezer at the top, I and others in the family were regularly pelted on the head with frozen items that had shifted positions as we looked for something. So happy to have the freezer at the bottom.

[Anonymous]

I believe side by side fridges have more cubic feet inside but are much less practical because the freezer side can't even hold a frozen pizza (or if it does, it's on an angle so nothing else fits on the shelf. And then on the fridge side, you can barely fit a turkey platter.

[Anonymous]

Mine actually has french doors for the freezer in the bottom. It technically can convert one or both freezer compartments to the fridge space but I have never used that function. I LOVE this fridge, everything tends to be more organized than my previous fridges.
Also agree on cooking style comment.

[Anonymous]

Downside is that the kids can get to my ice cream and frozen treats much easier

[Anonymous]

I like freezers on the bottom, it allows for very wide items like pizzas/etc like someone else mentioned, also the fridge area is very wide as well. I'm not a big fan of side by side fridges from a practical perspective.

My one big complaint with the bottom mount freezer is that the Whirlpool model I got is more prone to problems. Replaced the POS electronic control board once already, although that's not a fault of all bottom mount freezers, but crappy modern appliances.

[Anonymous]

this one

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine actually has french doors for the freezer in the bottom. It technically can convert one or both freezer compartments to the fridge space but I have never used that function. I LOVE this fridge, everything tends to be more organized than my previous fridges.
Also agree on cooking style comment.

OK, what is it? Cough it up!

[Anonymous]

I HAAAAATE it. DH does all the cooking so he gets to make all the kitchen-related decisions. This is what he wanted. I freaking hate it, and pray every day that it breaks to the point of dying.

The bottom drawer freezer is TINY.