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.
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.
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.
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
Really? I’m in the US and went to Home Depot, Lowes, Costco, and Best Buy. Our requirements:
So, here’s what we found:
So we bought a side-by-side fridge from Whirlpool, which met all of our requirements except the french door design.