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GE Cafe French Door Refrigerator vs Side By Side Refrigerator
GE Cafe French Door Refrigerators
GE Café Side By Side Refrigerators
Top of the Line GE Café Refrigerator
The GE Cafe appliance line was developed in 2018 to answer the need for luxury kitchen appliances. Our society has seen a shift to people cooking at home and having dinner around the table with the rest of the household. As such, more people are investing heavily in their kitchens with the money they are able to save.
GE has always offered kitchen appliances for the average household, and the GE Cafe refrigerators are no different. Although a luxury brand, GE Cafe appliances are still made for a typical family with a little extra to splurge.
The biggest advantage of GE Cafe appliances is that they can be customized. There are freestanding, slide-in counter depth, and built-in GE Cafe refrigerators. Each of these can be customized with your choice of several colors and hardware options.
GE Cafe refrigerators are offered in both French door and side-by-side refrigerator configurations. Here’s what you need to know about GE refrigerators with four of our bestselling models.
GE Cafe Refrigerator Features
What makes GE Cafe refrigerators different from other luxury kitchen appliances? There are many features that all GE Cafe refrigerators share. Here are some of the top features of GE Cafe refrigerators.
- All GE Cafe refrigerators have in-the-door ice makers with sensors that allow for a one-touch fill of water and ice, although some models have added functionality to this feature.
- There is also a hot water feature for tea and cocoa lovers that can be preheated from anywhere in the home with smart models.
- GE Cafe refrigerators give ultimate temperature and humidity control with independently set drawers. Some French door models also have multiple temperature zones.
- All GE Cafe refrigerators have twin chill evaporators, with freezer and fridge climates kept completely separate for higher efficiency and a consistent temperature.
- All GE Cafe refrigerators have built-in water filtration, but the type of filtration varies by model.
- Most GE Cafe refrigerators are smart appliances, with only the least expensive models missing the feature. GE Cafe refrigerators can connect to Google, Alexa, or iOS.
Before we get into the details of our four bestselling GE Cafe refrigerators, let’s look at whether you should get a GE Cafe French door refrigerator or a side-by-side refrigerator.
GE Cafe French Door Refrigerator vs Side By Side Refrigerator
Both French door and side-by-side refrigerators are extremely popular. Side-by-side refrigerators have been popular since their inception. They give you more fridge and freezer space in a narrower profile, allowing it to take up less floor space in smaller or more streamlined kitchens.
While some find the side-by-side freezer and refrigerator limiting in how they can store what items, most agree that the look adds a nice touch to any kitchen. That’s where French-door refrigerators come into play. French door refrigerators have the side-by-side look, but with the freezer in a drawer on the bottom. This gives you a lot of storage space and more temperature control options, and it still takes up about the same amount of space as a traditional refrigerator.
French door refrigerators are taking the kitchen design world by storm, but they aren’t right for everyone. Side-by-side refrigerators are best for those who do not do a lot of cooking at home or in households where food is not bought for more than a few days at a time. French door refrigerators are the favorite of busy moms and large households where a large quantity of a large variety of items need to be stored at any time within its depths.
The GE Cafe refrigerator line offers both of these options in a variety of models with a range of features. GE Cafe counter-depth refrigerators are available in either design to make them easy to slide into the cabinet cutout. Most GE Cafe side-by-side refrigerators are built-in models that incorporate seamlessly into your cabinets and are chosen as part of your kitchen remodel or redesign.
GE Cafe French Door Refrigerators
GE Cafe French door refrigerators offer top-of-the-line features for busy households. The auto-fill features on the ice and water dispensers are not too high up on the fridge, making it easy for children to get a drink without overfilling and making a mess.
Meanwhile, the multiple storage options and intelligently designed organization and bins in the doors make it easy to get the most food possible in your fridge for larger shopping trips and storage of leftovers.
The GE Cafe counter depth French door refrigerator is a great example of the more economical models from the GE Cafe appliance line. It has all of the features mentioned above, but it is not a smart appliance. Reviewers of this GE Cafe French door refrigerator are thrilled with the look and functionality, which reflects the overall opinion of GE Cafe appliances.
Best refrigerator so far
“The inside is roomy with well-arranged compartments and adjustable shelves. The side door accommodates gallon-sized beverage cartons. The ice dispenser hasn’t jammed, and a retractable shelf accommodates wider mugs and bowls. The hot and cold water dispenser works well and even has a simple Keurig attachment, but it takes a few minutes to heat. For the impatient among us, the iPhone app allows you to select “heat water now” from your bed or the sofa. About 20 canned sodas or beer fit great in the bottom drawer, where they can be kept extra cold by adjusting the drawer’s digital temperature. Meat and Deli settings are also available at lower temperatures.”
— Humbleopinion
The best GE Café French door refrigerators have some added features that you don’t want to miss. This GE Café French door refrigerator has all the bells and whistles, including the ability to perform tasks like preheating water from anywhere in the home. It also has a fourth door with a slide-out slim line but full-width tray for storing flat and unusually shaped items like pizzas or trays of cookies that need to chill.
Some of the features mentioned above are enhanced on this GE Café refrigerator. For example, the water dispenser has an auto-fill sensor to detect how much ice or water should be dispensed for the container size. It also has a hands-free platform suitable for holding most glasses and water bottles.
In addition to being Wi-Fi enabled with smart features run by an app, the best GE Café refrigerators can integrate into the rest of your smart home. This model is also Energy Star qualified, with the ability to adjust temperature and humidity to suit the items, or lack of items, in the refrigerator.
GE Café Side By Side Refrigerators
Traditional side-by-side refrigerators have been around almost as long as the fridge itself, although they didn’t gain in popularity until much later. These GE Café side by side refrigerators have everything you love about these fridges, but they offer a flawless organizational design with a variety of ins in the doors.
GE Café side by side refrigerators also has Turbo Cool and Turbo Freeze, which allow you to give a big burst of cold air circulated to compensate for filling it with a new batch of groceries or compensating for a brief power outage.
These refrigerators are in the $9,000 to $10,000 range, but there are a few more affordable models. The GE Café counter depth refrigerator with side-by-side fridge and freezer is typical of GE side-by-side refrigerators. Reviewers say that these side-by-side refrigerators are spacious and efficient.
Spacious and efficient
“Excellent product features - we enjoy the ice and water; plenty of space on both sides of the refrigerator/freezer.”
— Prickly Pear
The GE Café side by side refrigerator above is counter depth and slides into place alongside the cabinet or into a cutout in the cabinets. However, this is a slide-in appliance, not a built-in appliance. All other GE Café side by side refrigerator models in our catalog are designed to be customized and built into the cabinets when they are installed.
Top of the Line GE Café Refrigerator
The best GE Café refrigerator in our catalog is this Smart Built-In GE Café refrigerator. This fridge is the best that GE Café appliances have to offer. In addition to the features listed above for side-by-side refrigerators from GE Café, there are a few additional features you should be familiar with that might make up your mind to get one of these luxury refrigerators.
Some Of Those Features Include:
- The Wi-Fi technology keeps you informed about your refrigerator’s performance, temperature, and humidity so that adjustments can be made accordingly. A useful application of this feature is having notice of a power outage while you are away from home.
- Presets for cooling zones for meat, produce, and citrus keeps food fresh longer.
- Spill-proof shelves do not allow spills to trickle down to the shelves below them for easier cleanup.
- The large capacity and big door bins make it easy to store more than you ever thought a side-by-side fridge could hold.
There is another side-by-side refrigerator from GE Café in our catalog with very similar features. Most of these differ mostly in dimensions, exterior design, and interior capacity, and they are all of a similar price. The kitchen design experts at Idler’s can help you choose the right built-in GE Café refrigerator for your new kitchen.
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At Idler’s Home, we believe in providing the highest quality products and service to our community. Over the span of 70 years (and counting), our business has seen successful growth, with over 100 employees and with five locations along the central coast of California. Not only do we offer major appliances, quality furniture, and the best mattresses but we also provide hot tubs and swim spas and perform kitchen design services. In addition, our trained professional installers can set up all appliances we sell while our factory-trained technician's service and repair them if they ever break down. Suffice it to say: Idler’s is dedicated to helping you make the vision you have for your home a reality.
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