Refrigerator door alarm vs. high temperature alarm
Actually there are two alarm systems used with refrigerators. The first one signals (beeps) when the door is open longer than set period of time (usually 1-5 minutes). The second one alerts you when the temperature in the fridge exceeds certain limit (10 – 12 Celsius degrees).
Do I really [...]

Some refrigerators come with built-in safety latches (so called child-lock, children-lock safety systems). Such safety latch should keep toddlers or smaller children from opening the refrigerator (and doing you know what…).
So much for the promotional materials. Now little reality…
Go to the kitchen and try to open your fridge. How much strength you must have [...]

The built-in icemakers provide you with plenty of ice without stressful dealing with the plastic or rubber ice cube trays. Just push the button and you get couple of nice looking cubes right in your glass of whisky. And as their name indicates, the cold water dispensers provide cold water.
Ice/water dispenser advantages
Ice or cold water [...]

The top-freezers (also called the top-mount refrigerators) appeared earlier than their bottom-freezer brothers. Why the manufacturers decided to produce fridges with freezer on top? My opinion is… due to the evolution.
First there were independent refrigerator and freezer units without any successful attempts to combine them into one appliance.
Little later a compact refrigerator was born with [...]

How much energy the refrigerators really consume?
Refrigerators and freezers (or their combinations) do not consume too much energy. Their standard consumption can be as low as 100W (watts) which is more or less the same as the consumption of a “stronger” bulb.
The problem of the fridges and freezers is that they run nonstop 24/7/365 which [...]