It may sound clichéd but a refrigerator is truly an integral part of every home. You could be living in a studio apartment with no room for an elaborate bed but you'll definitely want to squeeze a refrigerator in it, albeit a mini one.

The choice of refrigerator you want to buy will depend on the number of people in the house as well as your food habits. Roughly a two member family would require anywhere between 50 to 200 litres. However, if you like your steak and chilled beer you might want a higher capacity refrigerator. Also if you are the kind who likes their weekly Sunday grocery shopping a larger capacity will be useful.

TYPE OF REFRIGERATOR
Refrigerator types are simple – direct cool and frost-free refrigerator. Direct cooling ones are mostly single door refrigerators and frost-free refrigerators are mostly double and multiple doors. The abundant variety comes in the form of capacity. You can choose from mini, small, medium and large refrigerators.

BUDGET
There are plenty of features for you to choose from. However, knowing the cash you'd like to spend will narrow the range making it easier for you to select. The price range is very extensive starting from Rs 5,500 going up to Rs 2,25,000. Frost-free refrigerators starting from Rs 10,000 have made defrosting a fading memory. There are also models that have an automatic defrosting option which defrost the fresh-food compartment automatically, but the freezer still has to be defrosted manually. Models such as these are priced at Rs 7,490 onwards.

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