The Kenmore 79432 gets a whole lot of things right. Compare them with the stainless steel 79433, which retails for $1,780, and things get even worse. Those competitors are all stainless steel models, too. All of the other large top freezers in that chart will add less to your energy bill, but the 79432 retails for at least $100 more than all of them. This isn't to say that the 79432 is an inefficient fridge, but given what it costs, it's disappointing to see it get beat almost across the board. From a strict efficiency perspective, the smaller GE fridge offers more bang for your buck, costing about 30 cents less to cool each cubic foot each year. For instance, with a total capacity of 17.5 cubic feet, the GE GTE18GMHES slate top freezer offers about 74 percent of the 79432's storage space, but at a yearly expense of $43, it costs about 65 percent as much to run. The math doesn't hold up when you compare the 79432 to smaller models, either. It's about 10 percent more efficient than the 79432, and it costs less.
This includes the equally spacious, practically identical LG LTCS24223S - the closest thing in LG's current catalog to the fridge the 79432 is built from. However, divide that yearly expense by the total capacity to get the cost of cooling each cubic foot, and you'll see that the 79432 is also less efficient than much of the competition. As one of the largest top freezers available, it isn't surprising that it'll add more to your energy bill each year than the competition - as a bigger fridge, it has a bigger job to do. You might also want to take efficiency into account when upgrading to a bigger fridge like the 79432. It's a little more narrow, but it offered plenty of space for kid-friendly juice boxes and pudding cups (and at a kid-appropriate height, no less).Įstimated yearly energy cost ($0.12 per kWh) There's also a third shelf along the bottom of the door. The door shelves were a key factor - each of the two main shelves is wide enough for scores of drinks and condiment bottles, and each one offers enough vertical clearance for tall stuff, too. After moving the middle shelves up just a bit, I was able to fit all of our standardized grocery load and all six of our stress test items into the fridge at the same time. With all of that space at its disposal, the 79432 made quick work of our capacity tests. The one exception, of course, is LG, which makes the top freezer model the Kenmore 79432 is based off of. Those are excellent numbers - no other major top freezer manufacturer offers much more than 21 cubic feet in total, or much more than 15 cubic feet in the fridge. The 79432 boasts a total capacity of 23.8 cubic feet, 17.6 of which are allocated to the fridge. If I owned the 79432, I'd probably be comfortable dialing it up a setting or two and shaving a few cents off of my daily energy use. As freezers go, it's slightly colder than it might need to be, with average temperatures that sit a few degrees below zero. Ideally, changing the temperature in the fridge won't affect the temperature in the freezer, and the 79432 delivered, with near identical averages in both tests.
It has its own temperature dial, which we left at the default setting through both tests. The freezer offered consistent performance, too. If the overall average was any lower, you'd start to see frozen milk. Again, those door openings actually drove the temperature down, with negative spikes that approached that 32 degree freeze point, but never quite crossed it. It makes sense when you consider the 79432's penchant for overcorrecting with the cold. With the Kenmore 79432, that coldest setting seems to sit closer to 35 degrees, with the three main shelves averaging out to 34.7. Performance was just as strong when we dialed things down tot he coldest setting.
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