GE CYE23TSDSS Cafe 23.1 Cu. Ft. Stainless Steel Counter Depth French Door Refrigerator - Energy Star

Bought a house filled with GE Monogram appliances (Stove, Double Ovens, Dishwasher) but sans fridge. Did some investigating and the GE Cafe handles are almost identical to those of the Monogram (except the area the handle mounts in is slightly rounded as opposed to the Monogram's hard edges).Bought it here on Amazon... and while Amazon will tell you one shipping date, it's wrong. You need to wait for HCCost to contact you with a window. While the delivery wasn't as fast as I would hope, it was getting frustrating with this fridge out of stock in Las Vegas, not to mention this Amazon deal was literally $300 cheaper than the nearest competitor.When it finally arrived, they unboxed it and slid it to the opening in my cabinets. I took it from there ($100 install fee for one stinkin' $8 tube? No thanks). Installation was self-explanatory.The fridge I received was free from defects on the outside. The inside lip of the fridge seems to have some marks on it, but nothing I'm sure a magic eraser can't fix. They pack the fridge for the apocalypse so set aside about an hour to remove all the extra tape and plastic wrap they have in there.For a counter-depth fridge, this sucker can fit a lot of food. First test was an entire Thanksgiving Dinner with a turkey and a ham and a ton of extras. All fit nicely. The bottom pull-out rack can have it's temperature changed (with some cool lighting effects) and is perfect for fitting cans of soda. (I have fit 30 cans. enough for 5 rows, 4+2 in each row)The fridge is pretty quiet (I thought it was noisy for a second, but then I realized I literally had no fridge there for 3 weeks... anything is noisy.)The screen on the front is pretty cook. I have seen some people saying the precise fill doesn't work, they are wrong. It does. When you pour water it will count out how many ounces you are dispensing (it is time-based and isn't an actual scientific measurement). That'll fill up all day long. "Precise fill", you choose how many ounces you need, and it will dispense it and auto-stop. The heated water, nice feature. Will we use it with a Keurig? Probably not. Haven't used the digital picture frame option yet but it is on my list.All and all, it's a great fridge, at a great price, that takes a good deal of time to get to you with the Amazon option. And it is now fully manufactured in the USA... so if you had a bad experience with a GE product made elsewhere, give this one a shot. Totally different ballgame.

I've changed my opinion about this fridge. I should have listened to the reviews. This thing is L O U D ! And it freezes my produce. The repairman recommended that I empty the fridge. Remove the food. Unplug it and let it sit overnight. That way the ice that has condensed around the fans can melt and the fans will work again. It seems to work but I'm having to go through this tedious inconvenient process every six months. I'm lucky I have a 2nd fridge in the garage. It works better than this new beast. I don't recommend this. I wish I never bought it. Here's what I first wrote... Our fridge was delivered five days ago. It's beautiful. I'm not sorry I chose it. I have more usable space than my old side-by-side, I love the design details. I love being able to open the french doors and see everything. No more digging. Freezer space is luxurious compared to my old fridge. This new counter-depth has a smaller footprint and makes my small kitchen look bigger. It's not noisy. We love the beautiful lighting inside. I just like standing and looking in. And, I really like knowing it was made in Kentucky, not China.Here's why I'm only giving it 3 stars: The vegetable drawer is way too small. The design of the ice dispenser causes crushed ice to bounce and spatter all over the floor. I don't see that I'd use the hot water feature. I have to wait four minutes for a single 8 oz cup of water to heat up. I'll stick with my whistling teapot on the stove. It fingerprints like crazy. So I'm always rubbing it with stainless cleaner and a diaper. It feels like idol worship when I'm doing this.

I expect appliances to work a long time. With kids, husband, jobs, bills, medical appts., pets, school projects, health, family events/issues,etc can we really afford time to continually repair and chase after the things that should be plugging along without an issue? No, of course not. I loved the look of this refrigerator, and judging by the other reviews, it's lasted me just over two years (longer than most) before it's gone totally on the fritz, but I can't afford a new refrigerator every two years. My job actually depends on this refrigerator. So this refrigerator being screwed up really screws up my life, on multiple levels, so I don't care how it looks anymore. It's a complete eyesore. GE should be ashamed of the lack of quality. This appliance started out fairly quiet, and has become progressively louder. Literally, it sounds like a Johnson boat motor at times. My S-I-L was over and was there to witness it literally start screaming. I said, "I'm glad you were here to hear that noise because no one would believe me that my refrigerator just screamed." I know it must be a motor, or a belt, or some combo but the point is, it shouldn't be happening. I had a P.O.S. Kenmore that is in the carport, over 20 yrs. old that still works. It's ugly as sin, energy hog, but I take a weird sort of pride in the fact that it's still kicking, and saving my job, literally, because my fancy new fridge can't do anything. The GE had issues in the beginning with randomly freezing things, mostly on the top shelves. We worked around that. Frozen eggs, frozen veggies. Then it got progressively louder. Literally screaming on occasion. Now the refrigerator part is not cooling at all. Not even sure how many $$$ groceries I have lost. When your appliances do not work, it's demoralizing. Really. Food rotting, can't feed your family. Can't wash clothes. Can't cook a proper meal. We all really really depend on our appliances. When GE makes an inferior product, it's demoralizing, because we depend on that product so very much to keep the entire family running as smoothly as we can. GE is bad for America. Bad for Morale. I want something I can depend on, and I'd be loyal till the day I died. This product is not that.