Introduction

A fridge freezer’s main job is to keep food fresh for as long as possible, but the LG LF29S9775S 29 cu. ft. Standard-Depth MAX 4-Door French Door Refrigerator proves that this can be done in style.

With a flexible interior, excellent temperature control and a clever colored InstaView window, this fridge freezer looks great, and it can produce some clever ice, too.

Design and Features

• Three types of ice
• Colored InstaView
• Flexible interior

A French Door fridge-freezer, the LG LF29S9775S sets the fridge section at the top, running the full-width, with drawers for the freezer below. I like this kind of design, as the fridge is large and everything you need on a daily basis is reachable without having to bend down.

Inside, there’s a lot of room with a 17 cu. ft. fridge, larger even than on the older LG LRYKC2606S 26 cu. ft. Smart Mirror InstaView Counter-Depth MAX. There are three shelves, two of which can be repositioned.

One of the movable shelves has a split design, so you can slide half of it out of the way to fit taller items in below. It’s very handy for those times you’ve got big bottles that you want to keep cool.

As this is a plumbed-in fridge, there’s a water and ice dispenser on the front door. Normally, this kind of system takes up quite a lot of room, with a bulky ice dispenser intruding on the door.

LG’s Slim Spaceplus Ice System takes up less space, and hides everything behind a handy door, so the inside of the fridge remains neater. Cleverly, this ice system dispenses small craft ice (spheres of ice, rather than cubes), which can be served whole or crushed.

Plus, there’s a large craft ice dispenser that drops spheres of ice into a freezer drawer. These kinds of large ice spheres are slow melting, so ideal for cocktails (or just for showing off at a party).

The ice dispenser inside does mean that the door pockets on the left side door are quite small. The bottom one, in particular, is very narrow, so harder to use.

On the right side you get much larger door pockets, able to hold big items, even large milk containers. You’ll want to keep everything you commonly need in these pockets, as they’re accessible through the InstaView mirror door.

From the outside, the door has a mirrored reflection, but knock on it and the light turns on so show what’s inside; open the smaller part of the door and you can grab anything from the door pockets without letting much cold air out. 

Cleverly, this InstaView door can be set to show your choice of colored light, with three options available throughout the day. Is it strictly necessary? No. Is it a lot of fun and something that’s nice to show off? Absolutely.

Both doors are soft close, so push them close and they swing in, then slow down and slowly shut without a bang. This feels nice in operation, but also means that the doors don’t bang shut and disturb anything in the door pockets.

Controls for the fridge and freezer are located inside by the two drawers. That keeps the outside looking nice and out of reach of small hands that might otherwise play with your temperature. 

LG ThinQ is supported, both for controlling the door light color, temperature control and general monitoring.

The freezer section is at the bottom, with 11.6 cu. ft. of space organised in two drawers. The top drawer is a Full-Convert one, which has 3.2 cu. ft. of space, with neat movable dividers helping with organisation. This drawer can be a freezer or an extra fridge space, with the latter ideal for parties, keeping bottles of wine cold.

Then here’s the second 8.4 cu. ft. freezer drawer, which also holds the craft ice. It’s flexible, sensibly organized space.

Performance

• Excellent temperature control in the fridge
• Keeps frozen food well

To test, I set the fridge to 40°F, and then used ice blocks to simulate a load of food, and used temperature sensors for monitoring.

Overall, I found that the average temperature through the fridge was 39.21°F, which is just 0.79°F colder than the target. More impressively, I found that temperatures fluctuated mostly by +/-0.5°F. Anything under 1°F in this test is very impressive, and this is about as good as you can get.

Similarly, the freezer proved to be just as stable, although it ran, on average at 1.49°F, rather than the 0°F that I set it to. Still, this won’t make much difference, although you may want to dial the target temperature down by a fraction. 

Measuring power usage, I estimated a yearly running cost of $134 a year. That works out at around $4.63 per cu. ft. of space, which is about right for a model this size.

Should you buy it?