Whirlpool Absolutely Sucks

Whirlpool refrigerators are typical US-made garbage and not a day goes by that I don't swear at this piece of junk appliance.

Two years ago, we needed a new refrigerator as soon as possible since our previous refrigerator suddenly bit the dust and was unrepairable.  Unfortunately, finding anything during the pandemic that requires circuit boards for manufacture was exceptionally difficult.  Our best option at the time (pretty much our only option) was to purchase a Whirlpool side-by-side refrigerator and I have regretted this purchase every single day since it arrived in our kitchen.

We didn't want a Whirlpool refrigerator.  In fact, we didn't even care for this Whirlpool refrigerator nor was there a single feature that attracted us to this cheap product (cheap refers to quality, never is it an adjective for price).  It is a rather generic refrigerator but at a cost of a mid-tier appliance.  Unfortunately, we had no choice and needed a refrigerator as soon as possible and we knew to avoid the low-tier refrigerators.  Even so, we had to wait about a week for this new appliance to arrive.  The good news is that it was February so we were able to use an unheated storage closet as our temporary refrigerator and our trash shed as a freezer. 

Within a year, one of our primary shelves in the main part of the refrigerator was broken.  These cheap, thin glass shelves don't even fit into the refrigerator all that well.  Shortly after, I noticed that one of our cheap molded plastic door shelves was cracked.  Now, just two years after this piece of junk arrived in our home, one of the drawers is broken too.  

As if that isn't bad enough, the biggest complaint I have about this garbage is that you need to be a contortionist to access anything in the fridge.  Sometimes you need to empty half the fridge to get at what you want...  contorting yourself each time you take something out and then each time you are painstakingly putting stuff back.  This is like stabbing my spinal injuries with an ice pick.

The drawers have never slid in and out easily...  why would they?  This thing is a piece of junk.  Now one of the drawers has a broken slide.  This broken drawer slide is what set me off on this rant. 

The shelves on the inside of the doors are so deep that you only have mere inches to squeeze into the fridge when the door is opened.  With the door open, the deep shelves on the inside of the door are so deep that they block access to at least half the width of the narrow refrigerator of this side-by-side unit.  This is why you need to be a contortionist to move things in and out of this frustrating piece of junk.

Nobody will ever convince me that US-made products are better than products made in any other country.  The quality of any product is determined by what the manufacturer is willing to pay for manufacturing and, quite honestly, US manufacturers are cheap.  

In short, this Whirlpool refrigerator absolutely sucks.