What features do you look for in a fridge...or is a fridge just a fridge?

[SlightlyMadSugar]

And do you go with or without an icebox?

I am thinking without to increase capacity in the fridge...currently have one and rarely use it for anything other than ice packs and ice cubes...but I just know that as soon as we get rid I will miss it

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I look for lots of cheese and beer in fridges.

Try to get one with a smallish motor - we've just swapped ours and it is amazing how much more space there is without the big machine at the back.

Size - mine is massive and the envy of many friends!

Well your fridge is on all the time, so check the energy rating. I like flexibility in shelving and glass shelves. Assuming that you have a freezer somewhere, then no need for icebox imo.

no icebox if you also have a freezer
we have a Bosch fridge with drawers rather than shelves, and it's great. It holds a lot more than a fridge with shelves, and you can easily get at the things at the back

Are glass shelves really better.....I would have gone the opposite.

Won't be massive - will be an underbench one.

if you're going to have shelves, glass definitely better, as leaked stuff doesn't fall onto food below

I remember when which did their fridge report about a year ago the Bisch classic (os is it classix) did very well and also was very good value...

1 of the cheapest and best they tested.

I have made a note to myself to buy this fridge freezer when i get my new one...

also by chance my old bosses have it and so does a good freind... they are happy with it and it has glass shelves and all the other fridge freezer 'acessories' and last time i looked was about £250 so not extortionate for a fridge freezer

sorry just read you are having an underbench one

asda were doin one a couple of weeks ago for £59

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no ice box, shelves rather than those wire things as they are easier to clean and if something drips it doesn't go over the entire fridge, big door pockets to take milk, juice, wine. Plenty of scope to adjust the shelves to fit your shopping in

by a bosch and you will be happy

Electricity consumption/environmental band/noise level.

Size of space in the door, frost free.

(do not by Hotpoint. Machines are not great, customer service is awful, and if they break it takes them weeks to come out to fix.)