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Yeah the only two features that this fridge has that my fridge doesn't have are the pull out shelves and the removable bin for vegetables.

I've got no idea why you'd really want the removable bin for vegetables. Carry all my veggies over to the sink first and then pick out the ones I want? And look at how small that thing is.

Pull out shelves seem nice I guess, but they'd only be useful on lower shelves. My fridge seems to be about a foot taller than the one in the video. This person wouldn't be tall enough to see all the stuff on the top shelf if it were pulled out.

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Does your fridge not have crisper bins for veggies? I've had that in pretty much all my fridges, and the bins are always easily removable.

Pull-out shelves not so much (all the fridges I've had, had adjustable but "locked" glass shelving, I would assume for hygiene as a glass shelf is much easier to clean regularly or after a spill, plus they don't block light so much), but they are available on expensive or professional fridges.

The pull out fridge doesn't even seem that great, I just think of shit sliding off the back or you push them in and then you push everything off the front.

You could easily solve this the same way pull-out shelves all over solve it: a small lip or some other sort of securing. I don’t think that’s too much of a concern.

However it strikes me as a necessity for deep and rather badly organised fridges so while I can see the value (it’s pretty much the only not-useless thing I can see in the ad) it seems limited unless you’re at a pretty high level of use e.g. you use a literal ton of fridge space or you commonly need to swap entire shelves of e.g. desserts in and out.

Unsurprisingly slide out racks and trays seem pretty common on professional fridges.

> I've got no idea why you'd really want the removable bin for vegetables.

They say in the video that it's for when you bring a bunch of fresh vegetables home. You put the bin next to the sink and then load the vegetables into the bin as you wash them.

Who pre washes vegetables before putting them into the fridge? Wouldn’t that significantly decrease shelf life?

My fridge has pull-out shelves. They are very nice the 2x per year I use them.

The pull out feature can be found on modern fridges, my previous LG fridge had it.

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