Mrs Beltfed has her eye on either a GE or Whirlpool. Due to the smaller size opening we have in our kitchen we’re a bit limited on choices.

So of those two brands, which would you prefer and why? Thanks!

Whirlpool.

The ongoing forum wisdom from numerous prior fridge threads is to stick to Amana/Whirlpool/Maytag/KitchenAid, which are all the same parent company. Most are made in USA. Better quality than most other consumer fridges (especially the Asian brands like LG/Samsung), plus repairs are simpler and parts are cheaper/easier to obtain.

Our Whirlpool refrigerator must be at least ten years old. Probably more. We're very pleased with it.

It's had one service call, several years ago, for a pump that removes moisture from somewhere to an evaporation pan somewhere in the back, if memory serves? That's it.

Our Whirlpool dish washer is even older than the fridge, and still doing well.

That being said: My wife is utterly delighted with her GE Profile gas range and oven, and her brand new GE front-loading clothes washer and gas dryer.

We've looked at over a dozen houses in the past few months.
Saw a lot of really nice KitchenAid fridges, but they're $$$

KA would be my first choice, then probably Whirlpool.

Unfortunately [but also fortunate that I don't have to buy them] our new house has LG appliances [fridge & dw at least] in the kitchen.

What Rogue said. Not to mention, GE sold their appliance division to the Chi-coms several years ago.

Another Whirlpool vote. Had a Samsung, was trouble after the first week. No tech help. Terrible product.

Went with a counter depth…no handles! [EMAIL] https://www.bestbuy.com/site/w...2487.p?skuId=6422487 Sent from my iPad[/EMAIL]

KitchenAid or Whirlpool, preferably without an ice maker.

Frigidaire sucks. Digital display partially out, plus had to have service come in to fix mold issue in ice maker (which had a recall, which added some fan to keep mold away)

anything but Frigidaire

I have had a Whirlpool for 12 years now with no troubles

We just purchased a Whirlpool fridge… with no plumbing. Only a few weeks old but we highly prefer it to our old GE fridge. So far.

About 15 years ago my wife and I bought all GE Cafe appliances. These were not cheap. The refrigerator is the only piece that lasted long. While getting 15 years out of the frig is good enough, in general I am not impressed with GE’s appliances at all. Get something else unless its just too good of a deal to pass up.

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This kind of surprises me. I was told years ago that LG spends its money on engineering not advertising. We bought a front load washer and dryer in 2005. Family of four. Thinking they will out last me!
I have heard parts are hard to come by.

We have a GE French door frig/freezer, I think it was built by a pop up camper company….

Went fridge shopping when we bought the new house last summer. Wife is a research geek and felt comfortable enough with one of the largest residential Samsung models based on thousands of online reviews. It’s her deal so any advice I give is viewed as negativity so whatever. Been trouble free for a year next month.

Whirlpool, Kitchen Aid, and Maytag are all Whirlpool brands.

GE has been bought by Haier, a China conglomerate.

We have a Kitchen Aid and a Whirlpool fridge of a very similar design.

My whirlpool washer and dryer were 40 years old and still running fine when I gave them to the guy that installed the new whirlpools.

He took them home to use.

I buy whirlpool when I can.

Also include Amana with the Whirlpool KA group. Most of those fridges are built in Middle Amana, Iowa. If it has the Made in USA sticker on it it was most likely built here in Iowa.

Agreed

In the past 20 yrs I have owned several Whirlpools (?3-all good), and one GE. Cant recommend GE. Compressor went out within 6 yrs.

JB

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Whirlpool.

The ongoing forum wisdom from numerous prior fridge threads is to stick to Amana/Whirlpool/Maytag/KitchenAid, which are all the same parent company. Most are made in USA. Better quality than most other consumer fridges (especially the Asian brands like LG/Samsung), plus repairs are simpler and parts are cheaper/easier to obtain.

My cousin is appliance repairman that is very popular around here. He says Whirlpool, Kitchenaide, Maytag.

We got a Kitchenaide, with the bottom freezer and our only compliant it the cheap drawers in the freezer, I think it about 10 years old. Our original Whirlpool is in our garage and still working 22 years later!

I have a Samsung Fridge, don't like it because it breaks down even though it's not old. And the software (firmware) is overly complex or incorrectly programmed, so that the motherboard can lock up, like a windows machine, you have to reboot it to clear the stoppage.

Thanks for the feedback everyone. We went to four different places locally trying to get the Whirlpool but the soonest we could get one was Labor Day! It was the same song at each place. We can’t wait that long, so we went with the GE. Consumer sites still rate it second to Whirlpool. So I guess we’ll see.

I just replaced my dishwasher with a new GE unit. I got the GE for its relative simplicity compared to other brands. I want my dishes washed, that shouldn't be needlessly complicated.