Looks great, Harriet! Thanks for the update. I'm interested to hear how it does. Believe it or not, I may end up with a Summit too. I looked at several in the store today, I just have to decide which one.

Hmmm ... now midnight and the ice cream is still not frozen. It's slushy -- not leaking out of the box, but definitely not completely frozen. Why?

We do have ice cubes.

Oh dear. I hope things are working smoothly by now.

I am set on the Summit FFBF28. It's true counter depth. I'm so excited; it's really going to open up my kitchen.

Now if only someone would buy my other one on Craigslist, I'd be set.

Here is a link that might be useful: Summit FFBF28

That one is a great choice; its 27.5-28" width size makes sense. Just like the first fridge at the top of this post.

24" wide fridges which have 19" wide shelves inside. Inside a 28" wide fridge the shelves must be around 23" wide.

"... pretty quiet... high-pitched hum ... not too bad..." I might end up with this one too if I finally decide that a multi thousand dollar cost is not worth it for the other ones I am looking at, Liebherr and Miele.

-dr

You know, I never looked at my old fridge's specs (and by the way, it was never full except when I was doing a dinner party) and when I looked last night, I found that it's 14.2 cf. This one is 13.8 so pretty close.

And it's half the price of the Blomberg I was looking at (almost exactly the same specs). Actually, this one is so close to the Blomberg in design and size, I wonder if it's only distributed by Summit. Unlike most of their fridges at which I looked, it's not made in North America.

But the Liebherr is beautiful. If I could afford it, it would definitely be high on my list.

Thanks, Harriet. It looks a lot better in your kitchen than in the photo on their site. (BTW, sorry to say I believe I read someplace that you're supposed to give them 24 hours on first installation to cool down all the way.)

-- some manufacturers declare numbers that are inflated. Others only inflate by a small percentage. Others are totally spot on. but these are usually commercial fridge makers.

I always measure the three dimensions inside and divide by 172. It's an eye opener.

-dr

All we keep in our freezer is ice, ice cream, bread, butter, and an occasional package of frozen vegetables. As of this morning, the ice cream and bread were cold but not frozen (ice cream just slushy). Ice cubes were good.

The owner's manual that came with it was revealed that this refrigerator was made in Mexico, and all the service places listed were in Mexico. It also wasn't terribly informative as to why this is happening. So I called the dealer; they were very responsive, and put in a call for service.

I'm really hoping this will work out, but I have to say I can't remember having a new refrigerator that couldn't keep ice cream frozen after a few hours. I have the temperature setting the freezer turned as low as it can go, and it's not crammed full.

(It's still nice and quiet, though! We can hear it running and cycling on and off, but it's not really loud.)

By the time I got home from work today, the ice cream was frozen again.

Maybe it just took that long for the coolant to circulate through the system.

It looks great! Glad to hear the ice cream is frozen!

I measured the temperature with a little thermometer I have (not very scientific), and it looks like the freezer is now between 0 and 10 degrees F and the refrigerator a bit under 40 degrees F -- right where they should be, correct?

The high-pitched hum that I mentioned (that I believe someone was complaining about on another message board) is so far very quiet. I can only hear it when I'm in the kitchen. By contrast, our departed Amana made some loud, piercing noises that could be heard all over the house and that even woke us up some nights. (We were ready to throw that thing out the door at times.) I suppose if you lived in a really small studio apartment without a separate kitchen and had sensitive hearing the Summit's noises might be bothersome.

Great news, Harriet! I'm so glad it's working and working well.

And I do think the Summit models are all very different, so who knows which model that person was complaining about? When I was in the store, I did see one with shelves that seemed to slope down and I wondered if that was the model that commenter was talking about. But it's hard to know, every person has a different tolerance for these things.

If that one person really had stuff falling of the shelves, I'm positive it's because he/she hadn't installed the refrigerator correctly. You're supposed to raise the front so it's slightly higher than the back. On the one I got, at least, there are adjustible feet in the front to do this, and it looks easy (the delivery guys did all the adjustments, so I've not tried it).

Interesting. My floors slope so that has to happen anyway.

But yes, the whole "milk bottles roll off the shelves" thing was odd.