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Fridge/Freezer recommendations please

chips-and-brown-gravy — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 16:27:07 GMT

Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced fridge freezer please.

I'm looking for a frost-free freezer with a 50/50 split between the fridge and the freezer.

I went to get some chicken pieces out of the fridge and everything has defrosted - I only stocked up with meat and fish on Friday so I have to dump the whole lot.

I suppose I should be grateful that's the three over. The boiler went 10 days ago and has to be replaced - a special order from Germany should be here by the end of the week, until then no hot water!

The TV packed up last Wednesday while I was watching Whitechapel, I said to OH it's a bit dark, he replied yes that's the nature of the programme, no I said, the screen and it was - very dark, then it got darker until it was a black screen

Add to that the quarterly electricity bill and water rates, plus £100 vets bill and I'm feeling very fragile.

Oh and to cap it all OH has 'man flu'

Somebody pass me wine and chocklit please before I cry.

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fionajohnston — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 16:54:59 GMT

can you not cook meat/fish if it looks and smells ok 2 days should be ok as it takes 24hrs to defrost

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chips-and-brown-gravy — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 17:15:39 GMT

I could cook some of it, but have no way of storing it. It's all well defrosted, so it's not going to keep, especially the fish.

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chickengrandma-2008 — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 17:31:01 GMT

sausage and bacon for breakfast, fish for lunch and meat for dinner for the next two days at least, should make a small dent in it. Have you not got s friend or neighbour with a little space in their freezer to spare. You can freeze anything once it's been cooked.

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ilove2patch — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 19:37:33 GMT

I have recently bought a BEKO. I think it's well made but a little noisy.

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cat-knitter — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 23:48:53 GMT

I bought a zanussi fridge freezer a couple of months ago, its 70% fridge 30% freezer ....... I didn't actually buy it because of the make but I'm very happy with it, infact I really only went to buy a fridge as like you ours ours packed up without warning, I wanted a bigger than average fridge as what we had got matched our freezer but choice was limited, the one we got really was because it was the right price & the clinching deal was that it was available for next day delivery, its 6ft tall so I can only just reach the top shelf

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ginap.123 — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 05:51:24 GMT

I've git a Beko American fridge/freezer & I'm very impressed with it. Also, no defrosting needed.

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notgrumpyreally — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 07:14:26 GMT

I think they are all the same really, I probably buy a fridge, freezer, cooker or washing machine every week because of what I do. Best tip would be use Quidco.

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soppysofty — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 09:12:27 GMT

Sounds like it could be the thermostat that has gone on your old fridge/freezer.

If it is less than 5 years old could be worth getting an engineer in as a replacement thermostat would cost less than £50.00 fitted.

Otherwise we use Hotpoint and have had no problems so far (touchwood) although Samsung and LG are getting very good reviews and if we ever had to change ours we would go for a Samsung now.

Look at ordering through either TopCashback or Quidco so you can get some money back - every little helps!

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cat-knitter — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:18:54 GMT

Grrr ...... why didn't I think of quidco

I bought a new dishwasher at the weekend

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duck_a_lorange — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 11:31:52 GMT

I think my old fridge-freezer will be packing up soon, so I'm looking out for a new one (but not 6 foot - I'd need a stepladder!). My biggest problem is that I really, really, really hate glass shelves, and I can't find anything without them.

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ilove2patch — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:11:13 GMT

They all seem to have glass shelves now. I preferred the wire ones.

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duck_a_lorange — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:11:09 GMT

@ilove2patch wrote:
They all seem to have glass shelves now. I preferred the wire ones.

Yes! Glass is nasty heavy dangerous stuff, it's hard and you can break things on it if you're not careful. And if something spills or leaks it spreads everywhere and everything on the shelf is affected - yuk!

I'm glad I'm not the only one!