Maytag Refrigerator - Bottom Freezer - MBF2254H Review

When we bought our home three years ago, it didn't come with a refrigerator so we had to buy one.  My parents decided to get it for us as a housewarming gift and told us to just go to Lowe's and pick it out.  My boyfriend's mother had purchased a bottom-freezer model for her house a few months earlier and I knew that was the style that I wanted to have.  I knew they were very expensive and felt guilty for even considering one but my mother said to just pick out what I wanted.  We eventually chose the least-expensive bottom-freezer model that Lowe's stocked: Maytag MBF2254H Bottom Freezer Refrigerator. 

21.9 cubic feet is plenty of room for everything that we use each week.  It has crisper drawers, a deli drawer, and even an enclosed dairy compartment.  The door bins are extra-deep and allow you to store two rows of items or large things like a gallon of milk or a 2-liter bottle of soda.  It's so much easier to have the refrigerator part up on top so you can easily see everything and clean as needed.  We haven't had any of those unfortunate containers of green-furry stuff since we got this fridge. 

The freezer is a bit more of a pain.  There's a door (with a built-in bin) that swings out and then there's a pull-out basket drawer and a top shelf.  When the basket drawer is really full, it's very difficult to see what's inside or move anything around.  The only way you'd be able to fit a whole turkey into the freezer would be to remove the top shelf and I don't even know if that's an option.  The former residents left us a full-sized upright freezer in the basement so I haven't had to worry much about what would/wouldn't fit in the small freezer in this machine.

My parents paid something like $800 for the Maytag MBF2254H Bottom Freezer Refrigerator.  It certainly is more expensive than top-freezer models but I think that it's worth the extra money.  This design is way more convenient and, as I said before, you can see everything inside so you can use up leftovers in a timely manner rather than letting them become science experiments.  We haven't had any issues with this refrigerator in the past 3 years.  I would recommend it to anyone looking for one of the cheaper bottom-freezer designs.