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French door fridge? Any good? Hisense?

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pontipinemum · 05/06/2025 12:40

I really like the look of the pull out drawers on this fridge but I'm not sure. Does anyone have any experience with them?

RF749N4SWSE Pureflat 90cm French Door

I also like this one which has the freezer under with 2 separate doors to open. I don't want a side by side fridge/ freezer I want a wide fridge.

RS818N4IIE Pureflat Infinite series

This are both Hisense as well which is not a brand I am familiar with.

https://www.very.ie/hisense-rf749n4swse-pureflat-90cm-french-door-american-fridge-freezer-stainless-steel/1600931052.prd

https://www.very.ie/hisense-rs818n4iie-pureflat-infinite-series-90cm-wide-side-by-side-american-fridge-freezer-stainless-steel/1600931068.prd

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SleepingisanArt · 05/06/2025 12:46

I don't have a Hisense but have a French door Samsung fridge freezer. Love it! The freezer takes a lot of stuff and I love being able to get items that I need out of the drawer (like butter, cheese, cooked meats or whatever you choose to store in there) without having to open the door. It came with a 10 year warranty and we've had it 19 years! Would definitely have the French door style again.

minipie · 05/06/2025 12:46

Ours is Fisher & Paykel and looks like your first link except without the central drawer. So double fridge doors above and a big freezer drawer below (then the big freezer drawer is internally divided into upper and lower drawers).

I love it and it’s lasted well, we’ve had it since 2010. I don’t know Hi Sense though.

I think your second link is a side by side fridge freezer isn’t it?

CocoPlum · 05/06/2025 12:50

I have a Samsung with a wide fridge on the top and I LOVE it. I have no idea how I coped with a single under counter fridge for so long.

I did NOT want big drawers for the freezer, I am a huge fan of freezing as much as possible and it was a lot easier to keep organised with mine which has two small doors, they are two separate freezers of 3 drawers each inside. You can also set the temp in one of the freezers so it can become a fridge or cupboard instead.

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pontipinemum · 05/06/2025 14:09

@SleepingisanArt I like that one of the pull out drawers can be a fridge or a freezer. Altho right now my 2.5yr old is butter crazy! So I wouldn't be leaving it anywhere he could get at

@minipie you're right I copied the wrong link - this is the other one https://www.very.ie/hisense-rq758n4sase-pureflat-90cm-cross-door-american-fridge-freezer-stainless-steel/1600931063.prd

@CocoPlum something like the one I've just posted now? This has a big fridge and 2 side my side freezers under. We also have a tall freezer in the garage with 5 drawers. - I also freeze a lot. I live on a farm and always have extra milk/ bread and batch cooked meals/ dump bags

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pontipinemum · 05/06/2025 14:10

One of the ones I posted has a water dispenser, I'm not worried about having that or not. With a 2.5yr old and a baby it might be better not having it

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PickleSarnie · 05/06/2025 14:14

We have a french door fridge/freezer. Ours is a bosch though https://ao.com/product/kfn96vpeag-bosch-series-4-american-fridge-freezer-stainless-steel-91211-27.aspx Purposely wanted one without water/ice dispenser.

I love it. It's symmetrical - unlike the one side fridge, the other side freezer ones. You can fit wide trays in the fridge which is useful. It doesn't have the wide drawers in the freezer but I don't miss that tbh. I've got 6 drawers in the freezer to be organised with - I think I'd lose stuff more with 2 giant drawers instead.

Els1e · 05/06/2025 14:36

We've got one of these (without the water thing) and love it. The drawer is currently a freezer and full of ice cream etc. But we'll usually change it around Christmas and it comes the wine fridge.

Soluckyinlove · 05/06/2025 14:44

I haven't got a French door fridge/freezer. I have got a Hisense fridge freezer though. I bought it in lockdown when the shops were shut and there wasn't much choice and I needed one immediate. I'd never heard of the brand. It's the best fridge/freezer I've ever had. I feel as if someone like me, who cooks a lot designed it.

pontipinemum · 05/06/2025 15:10

@Els1e which one do you have?

@Soluckyinlove thank you, I have been seeing mixed reviews. Some of the trust pilot ones are awful. But a lot of people only write reviews if they have had a bad experience. I was looking at it in currys and it has a 10yr warranty

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CocoPlum · 05/06/2025 15:31

pontipinemum · 05/06/2025 14:09

@SleepingisanArt I like that one of the pull out drawers can be a fridge or a freezer. Altho right now my 2.5yr old is butter crazy! So I wouldn't be leaving it anywhere he could get at

@minipie you're right I copied the wrong link - this is the other one https://www.very.ie/hisense-rq758n4sase-pureflat-90cm-cross-door-american-fridge-freezer-stainless-steel/1600931063.prd

@CocoPlum something like the one I've just posted now? This has a big fridge and 2 side my side freezers under. We also have a tall freezer in the garage with 5 drawers. - I also freeze a lot. I live on a farm and always have extra milk/ bread and batch cooked meals/ dump bags

Yep more like that one but no shelves inside the freezer doors.

It's been 3 years since I got it and I still open the fridge and give a happy sigh at least twice a week.

If you are not massively tall, fridge organisers and/or lazy Susans will be your friend on the higher shelves.

My sister has similar but with a water/ice dispenser and it takes up SO MUCH SPACE inside the fridge. Mine came with an ice bucket and tray so just keep that filled.

Molecule · 05/06/2025 15:32

I have an LG one in my holiday let, and reckon when my current home fridge dies I shall replace it with French style one. But a word of warning: there is a flap on one of the doors that locates into the frame of the fridge, which I’ve ringed in red. Your picture doesn’t show the flap. Initially I bought a cheap (Blomberg) fridge and it’s flap didn’t spring into position so most of the time the fridge didn’t properly seal - fine in winter but come a hot summer and the fridge kept cutting out as it was working so hard to keep cool. It didn’t matter how often I reminded guests to make sure it was properly shut they never did. I replaced it when I went with a few friends and none of them shut it properly either. So just make sure the flappy thing is on a spring!

Molecule · 05/06/2025 15:33

Sorry, forgot the picture

French door fridge? Any good? Hisense?
Flozle · 05/06/2025 15:34

I have this one - I love it. Loads of space 🙂

https://amzn.eu/d/g529RUZ

ObliviousCoalmine · 05/06/2025 15:34

They had these in store in Costco recently and I really liked them too. They feel good and solid when you open them and there’s a lot of useful space.

Els1e · 05/06/2025 15:37

The Hisense one. Can't remember exactly when we got it but I would say about 5-6 years ago, possibly longer. I do remember it was £648.00 so must have been a while ago. Very happy with it. It's moved locations a couple of times and is still working fine. I had never heard of Hisense before this but would buy their products again.

HiRen · 05/06/2025 15:40

My in-laws have always had French door fridge freezers (they find them stylish): they're extremely annoying. You need two hands to open the doors because one door closes over a flap on the other door in order to form a seal. You can't go to the fridge with something in your hand. You have to open the fridge, get your thing, put it in, close the fridge. Or, open the fridge with two hands, take your thing out, put it down, go back to the fridge, close the doors. Repeated attempts to "beat" the flap thing ends in a faulty fridge door closing mechanism which results first in constant beeping and ends in a fridge that doesn't stay cold.

At one point they had a fridge with a middle drawer (between the fridge and the freezer compartments): this was great and I'd love one. They kept cheese, butter, yogurts, cold meats etc in there. Wide, shallow, open and flat. You could see everything at a glance.

I have a very wide fridge with two freezer drawers beneath (so, two drawers that slide in and out of a single freezer "hole", not two separately-controlled freezer compartments). Pros are that it's easy to see everything at once, nothing festers behind anything, nothing is rotting away forgotten, and width is more important than depth when it comes to pizza boxes etc. There are no deep or dark areas. Cons are that it's expensive and integrated so will be a bitch when it comes to replacement.

LadyDanburysHat · 05/06/2025 15:44

We have one like the second one you linked, but with no water dispenser. I like the look of the drawers but felt there was less useable freezer space. I also didn't like the one with 2 lots of drawers with 2 doors at the bottom, as it although there are 6 drawers altogether they felt small and a lot of waster space with separating wall.

Ours is Hisense and going strong after 3 years, really love it.

Gymnopediegivesmethewillies · 05/06/2025 15:45

I’m on my second and they’re fab. No issue with quality or performance. We got one with an ice/water dispenser and it’s used constantly.

loved the drawer freezer too, although I’m not good at keeping it tidy.

minipie · 05/06/2025 15:46

My in-laws have always had French door fridge freezers (they find them stylish): they're extremely annoying. You need two hands to open the doors because one door closes over a flap on the other door in order to form a seal. You can't go to the fridge with something in your hand. You have to open the fridge, get your thing, put it in, close the fridge.

This is not true of my French door FF. Mine was like this, briefly, when a clip that was part of the door mechanism broke (this was a known fault, they sent metal clips to replace and it’s never happened again). I wonder if your ILs’ FF is broken?

LadyDanburysHat · 05/06/2025 15:47

Also to add, we got ours from Costco, and that makes me think the brand must be decent, as Costco only sell good brands.

myplace · 05/06/2025 15:51

Mine is a wide, double door fridge at the top which I love. So versatile, can fit the turkey in etc. really good.

The freezer below is two doors, can adjust the temperature so one acts as a fridge if I want. The capacity of the freezer drawers is amazing, bigger than first appears.

I wanted the drawer freezer originally but it’s too deep for my space and the capacity was lower than the one I ended up with.

pontipinemum · 05/06/2025 16:08

Thank you so much everyone! I think I am going to go with the hisense one with the French pull out drawer. I think the one with two doors on the bottom does look handy but also annoying as I think I'd struggle to get some bits in. I have a tall freezer in the garage as well so it prob wouldn't get hugely full.

I am so sick of our current on. TBF it has to be close to 30yrs old - we got it from ILs. It was in a rental house they had. It still works. It has the freezer on top which is very small. Also the fridge I find I can't see what is at the back so things get lost

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LadyRoughDiamond · 05/06/2025 16:45

This has blown my mind! I currently have an LG American style fridge freezer, but my husband hates having to bend down for items. Definitely going for French style next time.

BlueEyedStarling · 05/06/2025 17:13

Hisense is fine. Our American style Hisense ff (with water and ice dispenser) is a couple of years old and doing great. No issues. They are a Chinese brand, growing massively and v competitive with Samsung and LG (and Sony for TVs etc).

Twinstudy · 05/06/2025 18:00

We've got a similar style one but it's a haier. I love it, love opening both doors and surveying the contents of the fridge 😂dh hates it tho, I think because it is quite hard to keep organised. As the person who uses it most I always know where everything is but he just thinks it's a mess (it's not, he just doesn't get the system 😁)

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