Buying a fridge is a highly personal (and complicated) decision, contingent on many things: how much room do you have within your kitchen? How many people do you need to keep fed? What features do you need? And crucially, what's the best refrigerator brand to buy from? If you were only to go off of forum posts and user reviews, the answer would seemingly be none: the internet is full of angry rants detailing how their appliance stopped working after a year or even a handful of months. Some of that is deserved: modern fridges are highly complicated appliances built as affordably as possible to run efficiently for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Viewed through that lens, failures are unfortunately no longer a rarity, but an expectation, regardless of the brand name on the refrigerator door. We analyzed the authorized service coverage and parts availability across each brand that we've tested and published our findings online. If you'd just like to see how every brand stacks up solely in terms of service coverage, you can check out our interactive map.

For those reasons, we're hesitant to crown any one company as the one true 'best refrigerator brand.' This article instead provides a breakdown of some of the biggest players in this market and which models in their lineups we've tested best represent what they do best, all arranged in alphabetical order for clarity.