Stay away from Magic Chef appliances. Their warrentes are worth less than the paper they are written on. Of they have no parts in stock and it can be over a month with no fridge to get the part to fix it.
I have an old upright freezer in the garage that has to be thirty years old. It won't die, and I can't kill it despite several attempts. It does have the big flat shelves, but also has the wavy coils under the shelves that need to be defrosted every year or so. Sometimes the frost and frozen blocks get to a point where I just have to defrost enough to find out what food is in there. Long as it's running, tho, it stays. IIRC, I paid $50 used when I bought it. If it's a garage or pantry hidden unit, what's the difference? About $500 by my reckoning.
Steve
The big one we had ( think it was 25 foot or larger) would hold them. Moved and could only fit in a smaller one due to the built in cabinets. I don't under stand why the space was so small as the house has 4 bedrooms and the kitchen is large enough the space could have been made a few inches wider. AS there are just two of us now that is ok. Only the pizzas will not fit unless we take out a shelf in the freezer section. We can cram in a round Tomestone or two, but not the large boxed kind. This is a Whirlpool side by side with icemaker. If we had children still here or stored a lot of frozen food we would have a small freezer in the basement. I have often though about getting one just for the pizzas :-)
You like automatic ice. I don't. I'm not willing to pay for the icemaker, and the reality is that not having an appliance does avoid problems associated with said appliance. I use the trays, and life is very simple in that area.
Ironic you're making this comment as you bought your range specifically to avoid the fancy electronics that go bad and are expensive to repair and went for a mechanical system. My pov on icemakers is similar; they're more high tech than the plastic trays, which suit my needs a lot better and for less cost.
I don't think it is all that ironic. Having raised my kids and having grandkids here a lot, the ice maker solved a problem. Our old fridge did not have one and it was a PITA trying to get a cube. Getting kids to fill ice trays is harder than getting them through school.
You are right about the range with no electronics. Like the icemaker, everything is mechanical. I don't want a $300 circuit board holding me hostage to use the oven or to boil water An icemaker may stop working, but it does not render the rest of the refrigerator useless. I knew going in that icemakers will eventually fail and mine did. I paid $50 and some time to get back to having ice again.
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