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a MC that's right Chris standing in front of the Kenmore 26 cubic foot grab and goes side by side refrigerator now the idea here is that you can open the fridge like normal or you can press this button to open the front panel and reveal that indoor shelving about opening the entire fridge now that approach to indoor shelf access it's pretty similar to the samsung food showcased side-by-side that we reviewed earlier and also the LG door indoor models in fact this one is an LG door indoor model because Kenmore rebrands other manufacturers appliances to sell it Sears so this is the exact same thing as what you'd get from LG just with Kenmore name on it Kenmore sets the retail price of this white model or the black one at $19.99 although usually sells a lot less at Sears can also get a stainless steel finish for $100 more now I've got a few problems with this fridge starting with the performance most of the models that we've tested from the brands that do door and a door type features compromise performance they don't have the greatest temperature accuracy in the doors they gets a little warm on those shelves this fridge is no different creeping up into the 40s even when we cranked it down to 33 degrees so not a good result there those cells are definitely warmer than you'd like also from a usability standpoint those shelves aren't always that easy to get to take for instance this top shelf I open up I've got the sour cream sitting right there and it's not too hard to get to but if I open the entire fridge is totally blocked off I can't get to that sour cream unless I go through the grab-and-go door I would find myself forgetting if I needed to open one door or the other and I was trying to get to my groceries I don't want have to think about that as I'm trying to get my food though as I said this is a 26 cubic foot refrigerator and it allocates about 16.9 cubic feet to the fridge but I got to say the space isn't as usable as I'd like there aren't that many places to rearrange the shelves too and you only really can fit tall items on this middle shelf here or the orange juices there's no way to get two shelves tall enough for items like that without taking yourself out chucking it into a closet somewhere inside of the grab-and-go door you'll find this little door that you have to pull open and shut every time you're done with it there are little windows you can grab things out of but they're really not big enough for anything substantial you can't get a carton of milk out or a thing of yogurt you really have to open this door every time that's another step to getting stuff out of the door a usability quirk that was driving me nuts during testing was that the grab-and-go door itself doesn't shut that well try and shut it it stays open you really have to push it to get the clicks shut and that would just drive me insane over years and years loose I say other models if you're looking for a side by side perhaps the food showcase fridge from Samsung if you really want to side by side with that kind of door in door functionality but not this Kenmore it'll drive you up the wall thanks for watching check out the rest of our plants reviews at cnet.com for seen at appliances I'm right Chris