You know, it seems that bigger is always thought to be better when it comes to
refrigerators. Each year, we see these already goliath boxes growing even larger, though you won't catch us kvetching about making room for
integrated LCDs. To that end, Fisher & Paykel is looking out for those of us cooped up in tiny apartments with the introduction of its IZONA CoolDrawer. As you can see, the unit looks more like a standard cabinet than a real deal fridge, and it reportedly does an outstanding job of preserving the few essentials that bachelors and space-constrained citizens keep on hand. Your guess is as good as ours when it comes to price, but let's just say you'll probably end up paying more for less, sadly.
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posted Feb 27th 2009 8:56AM
Drawer refrigerators have been around for a long time. I wonder what makes this different.
It looks like a real cabinet, A new invention!
the iDrawer
Apparently you can have mutiple different temperature areas. Dunno if that's new.
Who cares? As long as it matches my F&P Dish Drawer.
Darren Murph has never seen it before.
meanwhile, where can you get an oven where the door doesn't just flip open? there is so much potential for burning yourself having to reach into the oven that way, especially if the oven isn't floor level.
You'd think they would at least throw in a built-in scanner and a top LCD so you can keep track of the content without opening the door.
If your content starts to walk away I suggest to go to the store and replace it. I never understood why somebody wants to track whats in the fridge. As if its a surprise all of a sudden you run out of your orange juice...
I wonder though what the benefit is of this fridge over a normal fridge. There are plenty of fridges avaible which fit below the workingspace so are about 60x80 cm.
@JZ
Drawers give you easier access to the full storage volume. This is particularly useful here since you'd have to bend down as well as reach back. It would make sense in our apartment. We only use the dishwasher to store dishes anyway. I'd like to see a freezer in this setup.
Haha.. It looks cool
http://www.ikea.com/fr/fr/catalog/products/20123873
Ikea has been doing this for a while now (at least, on my side of the pond).
And yeah, the novelty isn't worth the premium.
Tomatos are best left unrefridgerated.
Also, the tomatoes aren't friends with the bananas.
I personally would love the amount of room this would save me.
When I started working at Home Depot in 2004, we had these. They were only available through Jenn-Air (Maytag's high-end line) and the GE Profile line. Neither were cheap, so I doubt this one will be any different.
I am appliance technician who works on Fisher & Paykel products...We had training on this unit about 3 months ago when it was released in other countries. As far as price they said it could range from 3,000 - 4,000$ with out a front panel. Customers will have to have a plate custom made to match thier cabinets and temp range can be set from about 62 degrees to minus 15 farenheit.
this is tech news
I saw this 9 years ago (NINE YEARS) and it was not expensive at all
Im pretty sure the tech has gotten somewhat better from when you saw it, 9 years ago..Either way this is still going to be over priced, you can buy a mini fridge that will hold more stuff at a smaller price tag..
The customization and what not for your kitchen, is not worth it.
$250, mini-fridge. Good enough.
Perfect. A fridge that doesn't let all the cold air spill out everytime you open a door.
Unwrapped bread in a refrigerator? Someone must have felt they needed more hammers.
As was said above, they make these commercially available, and with all of the restaurants closing (at least here in Vegas) you could pick up a nice commercial drawer for a couple hundred bucks from a bankrupt restaurant. Get someone to install a wood veneer on it and you get the same thing.
For a few years in my 20's I only had 2 things in my fridge - beer and milk.
Why don't we see more appliances like this in the United States? Why do we insist on everything bigger?
I'd totally buy this, and my friends would probably call it "Euro".
That thing is bound to get disgusting fast with food dropping to the bottom. And I would imagine that it would end up looking like this one refrigerator that I had to clean out, only the slimy blood-red goo that smelt like strawberry jelly would pool more than spread thin. I didn't eat jelly for a long time after that.