Best Heller Bar & Wine Fridges / Refrigerators

Clunky – Purchased online discounted to $299 from Mitre 10. The size is good, fits perfectly under a kitchen bench. The door is extremely hard to open, unlike… Read more

our fridge or other freezer. If you pull on the door, the entire freezer moves. You have to use two hands, one to hold the unit and the other to open the door. OR, use your thumb as leverage, which is not great if you have hand problems/pain, or for a child. The drawers do NOT 'glide' on tracks, they rest on shelves. Therefore, they are sometimes awkward to pull in and out when full. The drawers can be removed totally if you like just shelves. I'll be interested to see how much ice, if any, accumulates over time.

I think this is actually a pretty good fridge - having owned it for 3 days. BUT – The good points - It's a TWO star effiency rating, basically due to it's thicker insulation - which is better than most refrigerators. However I can… Read more

clad it with extra styrofoam sheet to ramp it up to 3.5 or 4 - over all the areas, except for where it dumps the extracted heat.

It's a good size to store medical supplies etc.

BUT I have some pet hates, namely manuals from China that are printed in MICRO-FONTS of around 1mm high or less, and this has a paper manual in it, that has about 90% vacant space on the sheet and and it's written in a font that is about 1.1mm high.

It's an owner / operators manual - there is NO excuse for using such FINE fonts - especially when there is PLENTY OF UNUSED and WASTED PAPER SPACE, where a sinze 11 or 12 point font would easily fit.

The other issue is that I buy a refrigerator, to keep specific products at or around a fairly constant and pre-set and controlled temperature.

Now the owners manual states that it has this temperature range: Temperature Range: 0-10°C

AND the temperature control knob inside it, is marked as 0 to 5. It is not marked or scaled to degrees Celcius. However with 0 as OFF and 5 as the coldest, one COULD reasonably deduce that with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 = 8*C, 6*C, 4*C, 2*C and 0*C.

This being the case, why isn't the internal control knob / thermostat, rated in *C, instead of numbers.

AND why don't all fridges come with proper refrigerator type temperature gauges, so that you can dial the temperature in?

One of the thing with MODERN quality control and mass production, it seems the the days of arriving at the accurate thermostat have long since passed and control of the temperature by a rated temperature instead of a number, and thus setting the refrigerator to a temperature instead of a number out to be the norm, and not the thing to avoid.

So anyway ALL refrigerator manufacturers NEED to come clean on their temperature settings to TEMPERATURE and not a number.

A refrigerator is a product designed to extract heat energy from it's interior and the products stored in the interior. Medical supplies need to be typically stored above 3*C and below 8*C.

Many foods are best stored at 3*C to 5*C.

A refrigerator is a comprehensive package - of the cooling unit, the regulation of that temperature to a narrow range, and the owner operator maual for the device.

The three stars were awarded for essentially a good refridgerator, with no means to identify the temperature the goods inside are being stored at, and for supplying an unreadable manual that is essentially a huge waste of space with nothing the wonderful Chinese micro-fonts on it.

Succeeding on only ONE out of THREE primary issues, is no longer acceptable.

Instead of going for the cheapest smallest temperature control knob, how about all knobs come with a pointer and a scale of 0*C to 10*C around them. The domestic $2 house thermometer, works well to dial the "NUMBER" scale in - but people really ought not to have too. It's a REFRIGERATOR - it removes heat energy - and the final temperature is WHAT it SHOULD SHOW.

Anyway if this lasts 20 + years, I will be pleased, but the lack of reasonable temperature control and a worthless manual are it's major downfalls.