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| Brand Name: | Samsung |
| Part Number : | RFG297AARS |
| Form Factor : | freezer_bottom |
| Included Components: | ice_maker |
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Best designed refridgerator available.,
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This review is from: Samsung : RFG297AARS 29 cu. ft. French-Door Refrigerator - Real Stainless
I think this is the best designed refridgerator available as far as space and convenience goes.
First, it has the largest capacity, at 29 cubic feet. It is the same exterior size as a 26 cubic feet unit, but has tighter packed insulation so there is more area inside. The shelving is efficient and flexible. There is a lot of storage in the door. I think the design is much better than the LG refridgerator. LG has the icemaker in the door, so there is hardly any door storage. The layout of the shelves isn't as good either. Second, all the interior components are well made. The drawers are solid and roll out it easy. In the GE and Westinghouse refridgerators, the drawers are cheap and hard to slide in and out. (Samsung used to make the GE and Westinghouse refridgerators, but might not anymore). Third, the icemaker and cold water dispenser is at an angle. It takes up less door space, so there is less room lost inside, and it made so that any size pitcher can be filled. The downsides: 1. The icemaker has a small capacity and is slow to refill. But, it has been good enough for us. 2. It is a little noisy sometimes and sometimes makes a high pitched whine. French door refridgerators are all the rage now. They have been around since the 1950s, but never caught on until now. The leaders were the two Korean companies, LG (which used to be Lucky and Goldstar) and Samsung. These two companies made most of the french door refridgerators for all different brands. If you don't need the indoor ice dispenser, some have an icemaker down in the freezer compartment. This opens up even more room in the refridgerator section. UPDATE: I FORGOT THE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE: The cheese drawer on this slides underneath the door shelves. That means, you do not have to open the doors all the way to slide out the cheese drawer. I cannot swing both doors fully open. On most refridgerators, that means the cheese/meat drawer hits the door shelves and you can only open it a little bit. With the Samsung, you can just open the doors 90 degrees and still get full access to the drawer.
33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
No icemaker problems, great fit,
By F. M. M. "Skip" (SoFL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Samsung : RFG297AARS 29 cu. ft. French-Door Refrigerator - Real Stainless
Ok, 1st things first - a- Icemaker works fine, and we use it for our Florida summer Margaritas... and for our nightly icewater, and for a 3 person household, all the way around plenty o'ice. This seems to be a mjor issue in the reviews. There is a 36 hour icemaker setup procedure included by Samsung that we followed exactly, and no problems at all with ice.
We got the beast from Best Buy, best price (at the time of this writing, ~ [..]-2,100 (we paid 2100), and 36 months no interest payments vs 12 months from Lowes and Sears. My wife thinks we lost room in the doors, we made up a ton of room in the freezer, plus the rightside door is plenty of room. Great configurations, pizza tray is lost on us in the freezer, but the Costco worthy bottom freezer keeps plenty o' meat for me.Well worth it in space, delivery was fine, no issues with service as we have not called in, delivery was great. The delivery guys said they delivered one elsewhere where the recipient paid [..] or so, may not have been the real stainless one. Would buy it again, that's the best i can say. Only issue, what a pain in the butt keeping the stainless smudgefree! Its our 1st stainless fridge!
34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb,
By J.C. "researcher" (United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Samsung : RFG297AARS 29 cu. ft. French-Door Refrigerator - Real Stainless
Excellent piece of machinery, build quality is top notch, unit is quiet as a church mouse. Most importantly, the cooling capability is restaurant quality. The two zones works incredibly well. Anyone who knocks this fridge because of ice production is in need of an Igloo, because this it produces boat loads of ice. Recovery time may not be super quick but name a fridge that.
FIrst Impressions: 1) cooling is excellent, cools evenly food lasts a long time. 2) Power Cool/Freeze feature is sheer genius. Froze my melted ice cream in less than an hour 3) Door Seal system is designed to last and function as it should 4) Freezer has loads of space, a little tricky to find stuff, but two tiers of storage help this quite a bit 5) Water tastes clean, clear, crisp and refreshing. Did a side by side taste test with Poland Spring, couldn't tell the difference 6) slow-to-bright LEDs are a wonderful feature, very slick 7) One of the full size shelves in the fridge is potentially useless 8) Wine bottle holder IS useless and so is the egg bin 9) EZ open handle on Freezer makes it effortless to open door, all others I tried required a good tug, which adversely effects seals. 10) Door alarm is very useful
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