Just Turn The Thermostat To The Desired Temperature !, May 14, 2009

The EdgeStar has much to boast of: it is lightweight, easy to carry and move, roomy, attractive, and versatile as both a refrigerator and (marginally) as a freezer. Setup is simple, and the price is excellent. Strongly tainting this appliance however, is a thermostat dial which is either incompetently designed, incompetently calibrated, or both

Before continuing, let’s not fail to note the advertised description for this product: “Just turn the thermostat to select the appropriate temperature for your application!”

Falling with equal snugness on the Things That Make You Go Duh list is the instruction manual telling us that “The knob has markings to indicate the relative temperature settings, but in general, turning the knob counter-clockwise corresponds to colder temperatures.”

So if we turn the dial one way, it gets colder. Turn it the other way it gets warmer. We can handle that. The markings on the dial bear witness to and confirm this…

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Just right, January 11, 2008

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D. Jones (Crescent City, CA United States) – See all my reviews

  

Good points-

1) Small enough to carry up the stairs without help

2) Quieter than expected

3) Unlike a chest freezer, this one lets you have easy access to the contents

4) Low cost for electricity

Bad points

1) This is not for you if you’re looking for something big enough to store a deer or other large item. For me, it’s just the right size.

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Great Looking Unit – Works Like A Charm!, January 18, 2012

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Kenneth G. Nielsen “Kenneth” (Portland, OR USA) – See all my reviews

  

Just got this little beauty around 5:00pm today and plugged it in shortly after with freezer temp set to max and putting in a new Freezer thermometer. I read the post about defective temp control, but saw that others had ‘no problem’ so I played dumb and just cranked it up. Just as well, as it is now 7:30pm and I heard the freezer pump go off. I looked in the door and the thermometer was at rock bottom minus 20 degrees. Wow am I happy. My main refrigerator freezer is set well enough to keep frozen foods at 0 degrees and that’s what I want this little model to do also. I turned the thermostatic control back a quarter turn to rest it between max and min on the freezer side. I’m thinking that it will now level out at zero.

How it works was my first concern, so now that that is settled I can only also add what others have said: It looks great!

It looks beautifully made and I won’t be surprised to have this unit for many years to come. I got it to hold frozen foods I…

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