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hey I'm seen that's right Crist here with the Kenmore Elite French door refrigerator model number seven two four eight - winner of our editor's choice now like all Kenmore appliances this is actually another manufacturer's bill that Kenmore has bought to sell at Sears under the Kenmore name in the seven two four eight to s case it's an existing LG model that they're selling now it's not exactly the same but it's quite a bit like the LM XS 307 8 6 s a very nice LG French door fridge that I reviewed a few weeks back it's a model that offers great features very solid performance and good overall value despite a pretty high price tag this offers all of that as well at a much lower price tag selling for 2950 compared to well over $3,000 that other LG model so you're getting all the LG bells and whistles here at a much lower price chief among those bells and whistles is this pantry drawer this is the custom children from LG but Kenmore just calls it a pantry drawer like the custom Childre you can adjust the temperature in this thing from a couple of different presets that are specific to different ingredients I like it a lot it adds a lot of storage space to the overall fridge capacity I also like that you get plenty of vertical clearance here about five inches of height to work with that's one of those subtle little specs that actually makes a big difference in the overall usability of this fridge inside you've got a lot of the standard high-end French door features you want to see you get spill proof shelves you've got a sliding shelf you can push back to make room for tall items and you've got this slim indoor icemaker that's the same as the slim space plus icemaker in LG fridges I like this a lot it moves the icemaker out of the body of the fridge and puts it totally into the door and keeps it flush so that those shelves they're easy to get things in an attic now combined with the pantry drawer you get over 21 cubic feet of fresh food storage space which is just a terrific number we had no problem whatsoever fitting all of our test groceries into it all the stress test items didn't have to move the shelves around at all at all just fit and there's plenty of room to spare just fantastic performance was solid too it's very accurate temperatures that's at just slightly above the target temperatures the only drawback I found is that like some of the LG fridges we've tested that right door tended to run a little warm with hot averages across the three shelves not that bad not that big a deal but still something to keep in mind another drawback you can only get this fridge in a white finish or a black finish left that's a deal-breaker for you you have a stainless-steel kitchen you want something to match this won't do the job still as such a well-rounded high-end fridge at less than $3,000 this is just a terrific value and I'm looking to buy a high-end large sized French door for my kitchen this is the one I'm going to go with and that makes it an editor's choice you'll find funny more in my full review at cnet.com and feel free to field any fridge questions my way on Twitter for CNET appliances I'm Randy