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we've shown you our five favorite fridge features now let's take a look at five that just aren't worth it here we go starting with door and a door compartments LG made the feature popular over the past few years and Samsung quickly followed suit but I still just don't get it it's not any more convenient to open the front panel of the fridge and access the shelves than it is to just open the door of the fridge like normal and access those shelves and in some cases it's even less convenient because you've got a plastic barrier blocking those shelves off from the inside worst of all none of these compartments ever help the fridge stay cold they actually tend to make them warmer number two excessively spill-proof shelves now don't get me wrong I'm a big fan of shelves that have spill-proof rims around the edges but some fridges take the idea too far I'm thinking specifically of Electrolux models like this one that have these curved spill-proof glass shelves that bend upwards at the rim they look fancy I guess but it eats up so much space because you can't put any items on that curved part of the shelf number three in fridge temperature zones now if you watch our favorite fridge features you know that I like zones in the fridge that have their own dedicated temperature presets I just prefer compartments and drawers that are outside of the body of the fridge and kept separate from that cold environment they tend to perform a lot better drawers like this one that sit inside the body of the fridge are often ineffective number four king-sized ice makers now you might disagree with me if you throw a lot of parties or you have some other need for excess ice but I much prefer a smaller icemaker that's more compact and takes up less space in the body of the fridge at the end of the day of those big ice makers that sit up on the top shelf are eating up space and if you're asking me to choose between space for groceries and space for ice I'm going to choose groceries every day of the week finally smart fridges now I know I put smart fridges on my list of the favorite fridge features but that doesn't mean they're worth buying into right now we've only seen one or two models we actually liked and prices are still prohibitively high it wouldn't surprise me if someday soon we see every manufacturer offer some sort of flagship smartphones born out of that kind of competition I say wait well there you have it five fridge features that we say are not worth it for more check us out at cnet.com slash appliances and check out our list of our favorite fridge features as well you