Samsung RF260BEAESR Review

The Samsung RF260BEAESR is a French door refrigerator with a generous capacity of 25 CU ft, advanced temperature control features, and an excellent customer reputation for performance and reliability at a bargain price. For those who are looking for a good amount of interior space, style and impeccable functioning, this is an excellent choice.

Refrigerator:

The Samsung RF260BEAESR provides you with a very generous 17.5 CU ft of refrigeration space. This capacity makes it an excellent choice for families. The inside of the refrigerator presents you with, height adjustable, split shelving which allows you to customise the space to suit your groceries, thereby maximising the potential of the interior space to its fullest. The shelving itself is attractive, built from clear and white plastic.

The RF260BEAESR's two crispers are spacious. Besides being nice to look at and easy to use, they are solidly constructed and allow you to keep a generous amount of fruits and vegetables at optimum humidity.

Likewise, in the door shelving is solidly built, attractive and made to accommodate many different items, offering plenty of space for your drinks and condiments. Stylish clear plastic construction offers good overview of the contents in your door shelves. They are also easily height adjustable.

Readers of this review will also be happy to note that the RF260BEAESR also includes some advanced features to sweeten the deal. Our favourite feature is a full width, temperature regulated, pantry drawer below the crispers, providing three modes of temperature for different foods. This drawer allows you to store some of your more ‘prone to spoil’ items at at their perfect temperature for maximum freshness. Besides offering temperature control this drawer is an excellent place to store items separately if they are fragile, such as baked goods or snacks. Furthermore, instead of, heat generating, incandescent bulbs, the RF260BEAESR features high quality LED lighting, making use of this refrigerator at night time easy while perfectly maintaining the refrigerator's interior temperature.

To boost its performance, the RF260BEAESR uses a ‘twin cooling system’ which Samsung put in place to specially regulate the airflow between freezer and refrigerator. This minimises odours to flow between the two sides and allows very accurate control of humidity and temperature. This technology appears to work perfectly for the RF260BEA, with customers regularly stating that it keeps their food at an excellent level of freshness. All in all this is a spacious refrigerator section that is complemented by a good reputation for performance.

Freezer:

At 8 CU ft, the Samsung RF260BEAESR freezer is large, making this model perfect for family use. The freezer is very solidly built and the space separated between an upper and lower drawer, which helps to keep your items well organised and easily accessible. Opening the main freezer drawer conveniently causes the upper internal drawer to open as well so that you can quickly access your frozen goods. The bottom drawer's deep, full width, storage capacity means that holding even quite wide items, such as extra large pizza boxes, shouldn't be a challenge.

Most importantly, besides offering plentiful freezing space and excellent organisation of your goods, our analyses of customer responses clearly shows that the freezer does exactly what its supposed to do: It keeps you frozen items consistently and reliably at the optimum temperature, making this unit a true winner at this price point.

Noise:

Customer responses show that, despite its large size, this refrigerator operates very quietly.

Exterior:

The Samsung RF260BEAESR is a French door model that successfully combines generous capacity with stylish looks and impressive build quality, and all of this at a very reasonable price. The exterior is simple, perfect for customers who are not looking for their refrigerator to make a big statement. Available in stainless steel, white and black finishes, most customers should be able to find a model that complements the colour scheme of their kitchen.

Ice-maker:

An ice maker, with a customer reputation for quick ice production, is located inside the freezer, and should keep you ready for most events. As mentioned earlier in this review, there is no filtered water on tap offered by this model, but we doubt you will miss it, given all the other advantages this model has to offer.