Gadgetory

LG makes a lot of door and door refrigerators that have a sort of secret compartment here in the front that lets you access the indoor shelves most of them are French door units but this one is a side-by-side it's a $2,000 fridge 26 point one cubic feet and 16.9 cubic feet in the fridge compartment itself a nice looking unit here with black stainless steel and kind of a minimalist monolithic design now I'm not the biggest fan of door and door and other features like it it's not that much more convenient just to open the different door and get the thing you want out of the shelf then opening the door like normal and getting that thing out of the shelf and plus it doesn't ever impact performance doesn't make the fridge any better at keeping your stuff cold in fact if you look at this performance heat graph from the tests we ran you can see that those door and door cells run kind of hot that's not surprising that's kind of par for the course with door and door compartments and with door shelves in general more of a red flag is that bin at the bottom you can see that it creeps up at an average about 40 degrees that's not a great result even worse inside that door indoor compartment you get this plastic barrier that kind of blocks off your shelves you can get in by opening this door here by reaching in through this window but it's kind of a tight fit and this top shelf where you're probably keeping your butter totally blocked off you can't get in unless you go in through that front door indoor compartment compare that to the Samsung Food Show case side-by-side that we reviewed last year it's a very similar side-by-side fridge with a front panel you can open up and those indoor shelves aren't blocked off at all on the inside there's no plastic barrier no nothing and the performance on that fridge was even better than this one so I'm not sure why LG needed to include that plastic barrier blocking things off if you like door and the door features more than I do then a fridge like this might be tempting but I say go with that Samsung or with another unit that doesn't block the shelves off and performs a little bit better than this one does