Frigidaire FFHT10F2LW 9.9 Cu. Ft. White Counter Depth Top Freezer Refrigerator - Energy Star

I should have known by looking at the instruction manual that this refrigerator was sub par. There are a series of categories under the "Before you call for service..." section that mention excessive noises and prolonged run cycles. To all, the manual says "normal" condition. This thing makes an incredible amount of noise, and it runs almost constantly. When it does shut off, you can open the door and quickly grab something (maybe 5 seconds), and it will then run for an hour. Cooling--it's prime function--is sub par. For all its effort, the interior temperature rarely gets below 50 degrees. I've had unopened yogurt (!) spoil in 2 weeks. Any drinks that one enjoys cold need ice.

As for design, the interior is not only very small, but very inefficiently designed. There are 2 small bins for produce about 1 cu.ft. each. Put in one head of romaine lettuce and it's full. The door compartments are a joke. There is no butter compartment and nothing for eggs. Instead, there are 6 little 6" x 5" shelves that each hold 3 cans of (warm) soda, and one huge shelf on the bottom for tall items. All in all, the door takes up 6" of the interior depth. The depth of the interior shelves range from approximately 13 to 15 inches. There are 3 adjustable shelves, but shelf space is no more than perhaps 750 square inches.

I live in an apartment unit with a small hallway, so getting anything large into it is a challenge. The unit this refrigerator replaced was European and designed for small spaces. It had a 10 cu.ft. capacity, but it felt like 20 compared to this new piece of crap. I've had this thing for a month, but I'm already thinking about tossing it.

This is the worst product. I feel that it was designed to fill a size niche for energy efficient refrigerators, with no other considerations. Certainly none was given to putting food in it--other than canned soda.

I needed a small fridge for a "granny" apartment, and I always try to buy Energy Star. In a rare fit of supporting the local independent mom-and-pop store, I bought one of these in July. It took them over a month to get one from Frigidaire.

When first plugged in, it would run for maybe 15 minutes and then stop for at least that long. Took it over a day to get the fridge section down to 50F. With normal food inside, it won't go below 39F even on the very coldest setting. The off-to-on hysteresis is 10F, so at the coldest setting it cycles between 40F and 50F. The freezer will go to -18F if you turn its knob cold, but the refrigerator averages around 45F. If you take out all the liquids and heavy stuff, the fridge will freeze your lettuce to death before shutting off, while still waiting for about 50F to come back on.

It also makes a wide repertory of amazing noises, loud enough to be heard all over the house. Sometimes it is a "boink-boink-boink" sound from the compressor or the gas bubbling. Way louder than the normal soft boiling sound refrigeration sometimes makes. Other times it is a loud buzz from the air circulation fan you can tell because it stops when you open the fridge door. And sometimes it is normally quiet, but totally unpredictable.

The local repair guy keeps replacing fans and sensors, and the behavior changes a bit each time, but there doesn't seem to be a real fix. I'd love to hear from anyone else who has one of these, working well or not! Frigidaire, if you're listening, I'm not very hopeful about hauling this back to the store on my dime and waiting another month to see if a replacement would be any better. I'm thinking serious design flaw...

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