• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      5 months ago

      Unfortunately, they’re kinda hard to find. We recently got a new fridge, and most of the French door fridges (fridge on top, freezer on bottom) were smart or didn’t have a water dispenser.

      We ended up with a Whirlpool without smart features, other than the “smart” water dispenser (touch screen to auto-fill cup to X liters), and it still has “dumb” buttons for that as well. I haven’t taken it apart, but hopefully the dumb buttons act as a fallback when the smart buttons inevitably fail.

      • Alborlin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        5 months ago

        I was sleeping for fridge about a year ago, i didn’t find a single “smart” at all. Max tech was door ice and managed 🌡️ with digital dials

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Really? I’m in the US and went to Home Depot, Lowes, Costco, and Best Buy. Our requirements:

          • ice dispenser in the freezer section - ice dispenser’s in the fridge have a high failure rate
          • external water dispenser
          • preference for french door fridge (freezer below fridge)
          • strong preference for no smart stuff
          • not LG or Samsung; strong preference for Maytag or Whirlpool

          So, here’s what we found:

          • about half of the french door refrigerators had “smart” stuff
          • about half of the remainder of french door fridges had a water dispenser in the door, the rest either had none or it was inside the fridge
          • only one french door refrigerator had an ice machine in the freezer, the rest either had none or it was in the fridge; water dispenser was inside the fridge

          So we bought a side-by-side fridge from Whirlpool, which met all of our requirements except the french door design.