Kenmore Elite 795.77563600 Review

First of all, I love the Kenmore Elite refrigerator.  Now second, I despise this Kenmore Elite refrigerator.  LOL!  Let me explain...

It's really beautiful and I love having the freezer on the bottom.  It is much easier to use than the side-by-side design and more practical than having the freezer on top.  I also really like the fruit and veggie drawers.  They are deep and wide, and the front of the drawer where the handle is actually tilts out so you can access small items without pulling out the entire drawer.  (I use it for things I have already cut and now were in a ziplock bag... leftover sliced tomato, the other half of the onion, the remaining cloves from the bulb of garlic, etc.)  I also love how the ice maker is in the door inside of the refrigerator.  (I know... ice in the fridge!!!  But it works somehow.)  When you open the door to the fridge, there is an small door inside on the exterior door.  You open it and wha-la!  There is a nice sized bucket full of ice!  And there are 3 different sizes to pick from for the ice cubes.  All of the controls are on the exterior in the panel that houses the ice and water dispensers.  All of it is electronic and digital.

Now for the cons...  The ice/water dispenser is not tall enough for nearly all of our gups and/or glasses.  We had to put our finger in behind the cup/glass to press the button while keeping the cup/glass at the right angle so it would catch whatever we were dispensing.  Also, the spacing between the shelves inside the fridge is not practical.  You can barely fit a 2-liter of soda on the top shelf and the spacing on the lower shelves is even worse.  The interior light is NOT recessed.  It extends from the top into the space for storing your items and it is not small either.  It goes across the front taking up about 1/3 of that space, so if you have milk and OJ or whatever to the side so it can fit (thanks to the light!), when you go to put the large bottle of ketsup in you have to tilt it to the side and hope that you can pull it out later once the kids put stuff in there in front of it!  Also, the water filter, which is very easy to change out, extends into the space available for the top shelf.  It's cylindrical and in the upper left corner, but it extends almost to the front of the fridge.  You can only put smaller things on that side (pickles, jelly, etc.).  And just so you know... I have the big one... 35 3/4 (w), 34 1/4 (d), 69 3/4 (h).

And finally, neither a pro nor con, just FYI...  the front is not magnetic; however, the sides are.

I finally got used to it, but I'm still not completely satisfied.  They need to make a couple of adjustments before it will be just right.