top freezer

Refrigerator's cold half

A top freezer is a refrigerator design with the freezer compartment positioned above the main refrigerator section.

This configuration dominated American kitchens for decades and remains popular for its efficiency and lower cost compared to bottom-freezer or side-by-side models: We replaced the old top freezer with a French door model.

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Categories
Opposites
freezer position in refrigerator

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Lower cooling compartment design

chest freezer · upright freezer

Family

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Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G