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Frigidaire review, straight no chaser.

Let’s pretend we’re friends and we’re at lunch. We’re discussing your recent home purchase and your need for appliances.

I am going to look you straight in they eye and tell you how much I love mine. I love my fridge, I’d just tell you to make sure your freezer shelves fit right, because mine don’t and it can get a little frustrating sometimes. I’d tell you how much I love my dishwasher, that my dishes actually come out cleaner than when I bought them but I’d also add a warning that a cycle takes TWO HOURS.

I would tell you about my Frigidaire Professional Series microwave. I would tell you that it has a gift for thawing meat, melting butter and reheating pasta dishes without drying out the noodles and burning the sauce. I would tell you that it’s the best microwave I have ever used or owned but I would also tell you that I had to neuter the beeper on it. ZOMG THE BEEPER. So loud. And constant. I’ve heard other microwaves that chirp at you every once in a while, like a tap on the shoulder, “Hey. Psst. That water you heated up for hot chocolate? Still in here when you get the chance.” However my microwave is pretty much the appliance equivalent of a pissed of NYC Taxi driver in five o’clock traffic.

Really. That’s my only complaint. It’s ability to perfectly thaw a pound of ground meat in under 6 minutes? Totally makes me forgive all the shouting (or beeping, whatever.)

On to the oven.

Here’s the thing, I feel ovens up when I go out to stores that sell appliances. I open and shut their doors. Push their buttons and mess around with their grates.

I can safely say that my Frigidaire Professional Series oven is one of the sturdiest well made ones out there in its price range. Pots don’t fall through the grates as you slide them across. They’re not all tippy and rocky like my old range. The simmer burner is Frigidaire’s gift to melting chocolate and the oven’s ability to maintain a constant even temperature even without using the convection feature? The stuff baking dreams are made of. Another bit of fantasticness I discovered over Easter is the ability to take a portion of the top rack out so you can fit giant stuff in, like a ham, without having to remove the entire upper rack.

The ham? AMAZING.

The complaints I could manage about the oven are minimal, but since you’re my friend they deserve to be mentioned. There’s a lot of silly settings. Pizza button? Chicken Nugget button? Not a real complaint, it’s just, well, silly. I wish you could still see the time when the timer is going and the noise the oven makes as it heats can be unsettling (as in, what was that giant whoosh? Is my oven going to go all Backdraft without the cute Baldwin brother?) And the only thing with the range is the PowerPlus Boil burner, it is amazingly powerful, but the consistency of the flame? Dicey. It’s either on “torch” or “flicker.”

When I first found out that I’d have the chance to review these appliances someone made a passing remark that about Frigidaire being a crappy, ill-made brand. While I have always known of the brand, I had never known anyone to actually own their appliances, my dad is loyal to another brand while my mom had all of another high end brand in her kitchen.

I can safely say that my Frigidaire Professional Series appliances kick some serious cooking trash.

They’ve been in my life for three months now, and I can safely say – “Yes. I would buy the brand again and suggest it to people I know and love with confidence.”

So there.

I wrote this review while participating in a Test Drive Campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Frigidaire and received a Frigidaire Range/Microwave to facilitate my review.

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I believe you, I totally believe every word you say. And you know why I do? Its the picture of the ham. One look at that and I will eat anything you ever want to cook me out of those appliances. Just sayin.

want wownies!!

I was just thinking about this yesterday-my family is buying new appliances and I was trying to think about any good/bad reviews I’d heard lately about any brands. Thanks for giving us the scoop!

Also… mmm… melted butter.

Holy Wordy Comment, Ahoy!

The microwave thing cracks me up- I also feel like the oven beeper is a tad…..URGENT, and I ran into the kitchen sushing it one night so it wouldn’t wake up the kids.

But aside from that? I have ZERO COMPLAINTS.

We have the professional series ELECTRIC Range, which we purchased to replace a crappy but practically new other brand whose glass top shattered and we found out it would cost nearly as much to fix the crappy as it would to purchase an entire new range. I was bitter because I assumed that the next time we’d be buying a range it would be AFTER we had converted to gas, but it wasn’t going to happen and the new range had to be electric.

After picking your brain (remember this?), and having picked the brains of the electric range owners that you hooked me up with, I somewhat less bitterly agreed that we could buy a new Electric, as long as it had XYZ features, which the Frigidaire definitely had. And all of my research showed only people falling all over themselves on the way to loving their Frigidaires. So? Following our due diligence, we ordered the range (we intended to order the Gallery Series, but then they all went on sale over President’s Day Weekend so we upgraded to the Professional Series for the same price).

I could list all of the things I love, but most of them I think are sadly things one should just be able to EXPECT from their range (like: cooks food!). But those are the every day conveniences, and I think it absolutely makes a difference that this is simply a well made appliance. The things that surprisingly go above and beyond? The WAY the oven cooks. I totally agree with you that it heats so evenly, and COOKS so evenly, that it’s like using a convection feature without using the convection feature. AMAZING. My husband’s FAVORITE button on the thing is the chicken nugget button. So ok, if that’s what he needs to get him through the day then happy nuggeting, Sweetie. I also LOVE the quick preheat for the oven.

As for the cooktop? The Electric cooktop that previously filled my life with bitter regret? I LOVE THIS COOKTOP. I never knew cooking on an electric stove could be so……good. The electric cooks like a gas cooktop. There is an incredible amount of control in those little burners, and TOTALLY UNLIKE our old range, there are varying degrees of cooking. Like, I can simmer on this sucker. And cook over a medium heat. It’s amazing, and this range has TOTALLY changed my opinion of what an Electric cooktop can do.

So, to sum it up: THANK YOU for your advice. LOVE THIS RANGE.

OH WAIT! I forgot to add that my parents recently purchased a new range, and they are the KING and QUEEN of researching to bits their major purchases (this is where I get it from) and INDEPENDENT of our decision to purchase the Frigidaire range, THEY ALSO decided to purchase the Frigidaire. And they were leaving a wall oven that they were very happy with in favor of a range, so the bar was set kind of high. And they LOVE their range.

I am excited that you referred to Backdraft.

Awesome opportunity for you to try them out! I had a microwave that did the constant beeping thing (don’t recall the brand) it made me insane but was otherwise a great microwave. We will be buying appliances in the spring next year so maybe I’ll consider Frigidaire.

Casey Reply:
April 29th, 2010 at 4:23 pm

@Michelle Smiles, What I REALLY wanted was the Elecrolux appliances, but Frigidaire is to Electrolux as Toyota is to Lexus.

My dad is loyal to Whirlpool and Kenmore even though he’s never happy with what he buys for longer than a couple of years.

I’d totally say keep them on your radar, I know I don’t think I ever would have considered them (that may also have to do with the fact I was BLINDED by Elecrolux desire.)

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