American Fridge

[Marmitelover55]

I wasn't planning on having one of these in our new kitchen extension, but our builder has built the kitchen 300mm longer than the plans. I could now fit an American fridge in assuming it was 900-1000mm wide. We were planning on having a built in fridge 70/30 fridge freezer measuring 600mm, but I have always been concerned this was not big enough, as we used to have both a fridge and fridge-freezer (especially useful at Christmas). Is an American fridge the answer? Thanks for any advice.

Love my American fridge. We have a top freezer bottom fridge style (think 1950's appearance) which I think gives much more useful space than side by side. At Christmas I can fit the turkey carcass in the fridge still on the carving dish.

An American fridge freezer you mean, right? We have one but found the freezer abut small so we also have a chest freezer in the garage.

Thanks both. Yes fridge freezer. We only have a tiny fridge at the mo and don't really use it much, so think the freezer will be fine. Just wondering if the fridge will be big enough...?

I take it you mean the one thats about 90cm wide with freezer on left and fridge on the right.

From a kitchen design point of view, these are notoriously difficult to design into kitchens and never really integrate properly into the kitchen. They are a very odd height and depth so it requires pulling units forwards by about 100-125mm wasting floor space or having the doors protrude past the units. No easy wins. In practical usage terms, the freezer will not accommodate a frozen pizza box.

A freestanding pair of larder fridge and freezer from someone like Siemens or Liebherr are by far the better option both in terms of space usage and practicality.

I love my american fridge but agree that the freezer section isnt any bigger than a normal fridge/freezer unit, especially when half of it is taken up by the ice making machine! We use our fridge section much more than the freezer section so the larger fridge is great for us but we do now keep a chest freezer in the garage

Thanks - I'm not worried about freezer being smaller as we only have a tiny one now. Just wondering if fridge will be big enough...