Admiral 21ADIW > Reviews > American fridge freezer

Author's product rating:   

Performance	Excellent
Ease of use	Very easy
Durability	Long
Cleaning & Maintenance	Easy
Value for money	Good

Advantages:	It's big !   2 large drawers, big door pockets
Disadvantages:	Getting it in !

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

We have wanted one of these since holidaying in Florida and have had this one for a few months now and it's great!

With us plus 4 kids, we need a good sized fridge, and this certainly fits the bill. There are 4 good sized glass shelves, plus several big door pockets (at least 2 of which you can fit tall bottles, large milk cartons in).

It also has 2 drawers: one for fruit or veg with a humidity control, and one for meat or cheese with appropriate temperature control. You can fit a lot into each of these drawers. We put our veg into one and it definately keeps longer.

The freezer side is not bad size-wise; several door pockets, a basket at the bottom and shelves. The icemaker takes up a fair bit of room at the top though, and for us we could not manage with this as our only freezer (I also have a separate medium-sized chest freezer) but you can squeeze a fair amount of stuff in.

But the best bit of all is the fact that it's plumbed into the mains water and we have cold water and ice on tap! No more fiddling with ice cube trays either - it will deliver crushed or whole cubes at the press of a button!

There is a filter for the cold water feed which needs changing occasionally - we've not had to do this yet.

As stated in the manual, this appliance does also come with a variety of strange noises - gurgling etc, all apparently quite normal but can be a bit disconcerting if you're not expecting them!

The only thing I would say about this particular model is that it is US proportions, ie it is virtually square in shape - just about as deep as it is wide, and so you do need a big space to put it in. It will stick out past a normal worktop depth. Ours stands alone in a corner of our kitchen so this is not a problem. Other models do come in a more UK friendly shape, ie shallower depth, wider and taller to compensate.

You do also need to make sure you can actually get it into your house - they had to take the appliance doors off to get it into our house and even then it was touch and go (even though we had measured beforehand!)

As we've had this less than a year I can't reliably comment on durability but it's been fine so far, and I think the US makes do generally last quite well.

This applicance is delivered direct from Admiral whoever you buy it off, I believe, so shop around! You may have to wait a while (Admiral didn't have any in the UK when we ordered so we had to wait a few weeks) but they will call and arrange a delivery day.