So many brands touting new technology to keep your food fresh for longer in their refrigerators.
How can you tell what really works and what’s just a gimmick.
We tracked how these popular refrigerator brands stacked up by recording how the food was preserved for over four weeks so you could see for yourself.
In this article, you’ll see how eight popular brands preserved fruits and vegetables over a four week period. You’ll also learn the important features of each brand.
Let’s take a look and see how each one did.
Results are in order from most fresh to least fresh.
Table of Contents
Sub-Zero BI-36UFD/S/TH – Kept Food Freshest
Sub-Zero’s best features include their dual compressors, separating drier cooler freezer air from the warmer and more moist refrigerator air.
It has magnetic vacuum sealed doors to help lock in freshness. It’s also the only refrigerator that has an ethylene scrubber to remove gases from spoiling foods to keep food fresh for longer.
Miele KF2982SF
Miele is known for its smart fresh and master sensor technology.
Master sensor is Miele’s easy to use and convenient touch screen display that helps you to configure all kinds of settings directly on your refrigerator.
The smart fresh function controls the refrigerator’s temperature and keeps it particularly low, meaning vitamins and minerals are preserved for a long time.
It also helps to adjust the humidity based on what kind of food you’re storing.
Bosch B36CT80SNS
Bosch is the only freestanding refrigerator on this list to offer dual compressors. The other commodity units offer twin evaporators and one compressor.
The Bosch VitaFresh Pro automatically balances both temperature and humidity from produce to meats to cheeses, pre-programmed settings calibrate the optimal environment, removing the guesswork from food storage.
Their multi-air flow system evenly circulates cool fresh air to maintain consistent temperatures.
True TR-48SBS-SG-B085H01
This true refrigerator has stainless steel interior and exterior.
Their true precision control and readout provides digital accuracy and easy operation.
Dual evaporators and dual compressors enable dedicated cooling systems for each zone.
The balanced forced air refrigeration system enables proper air flow and even temperature throughout to keep food fresh.
CAFE CWE23SP4MW2
GE has dual evaporators dubbed twin chill to help keep food fresh for longer by keeping the freezer and refrigerator air separate.
Beko BFFD3624XSS
Bako has some unique technology like their active fresh blue light technology imitating sunlight and prolonging photosynthesis in produce.
They also have dual evaporators, they call neofrost dual cooling and an interesting feature called ion guard. Ion guard emits negative ions to counteract positive ions found in odors to help your fridge stay smelling fresh.
LG LRFXC2416S
LG offers dual cooling and linear compressors.
They also have a door cooling plus which is a wall of cold air emitted by the fridge when it’s opened to help regulate temperature.
Some of this technology is pretty innovative, especially the smart learner intuitive performance function that analyzes habits to anticipate temperature, ice and energy needs based on how you use your fridge.
Signature Kitchen Suite SKSFD3613S
Smart cooling plus system includes their inverter linear compressor and dual evaporators designed to react quickly to changes in temperature levels and help keep food fresh for longer.
Key Takeaways
I think it’s fair to say they all preserved food to a certain extent.
We also want to point out that most people probably aren’t intentionally storing fresh produce in their refrigerator for a month.
However, some did perform better than others.
It’s no surprise that Sub-Zero did the best. They’re known for keeping food fresh for longer.
Bosch also did well as a freestanding brand with its dual compressors.
I find it interesting that LG would dobetter than its premium sister brand SKS.
However there may be a number of factors contributing to that, given this experiment was conducted in a live showroom.
There’s always the possibility that the SKS may have been opened and interacted with more than the LG by customers during business hours.
In the end, each refrigerator was able to keep produce fresh for at least two weeks, which is what you would expect out of your brand new refrigerator.
What do you think of these results?
Would you go all in and buy the Sub-Zero or would you opt for a less expensive and less featured option?