Cheap Fridge Freezers

If you are on a restricted budget and need to find a relatively cheap fridge freezer there are plenty of budget models available.

Search for fridge freezers by first selecting the brand you are inetersted in and take note of our "price range" bands. This will indicate the price range accross different suppliers such as Comet, Dixons, Currys, Sainsburys and others. You are sure to find the cheap fridge freezer you are looking for by browsing these pages.

A cheap fridge freezer appliance is likely to be a smaller model with less features than the mid and high price range models. But you are still sure to get great value for money if you purchase through one of the major brands provided on these pages.

Be sure also to look out for the warranty cover that different cheap fridge freezer suppliers offer.

Before the invention of the refrigerator, icehouses were used to provide cool storage for most of the year. These structures were mainly built and used in ancient Persia (Iran). Placed near freshwater lakes or packed with snow and ice during the winter, they were once very common. Using the environment to cool foodstuffs is still common today. On mountainsides run off from melting snow higher up is a convenient way to cool drinks, and during the winter months simply placing one's milk outside one's window is sufficient to greatly extend its useful life.

The first known artificial refrigeration was demonstrated by William Cullen at the University of Glasgow in 1748, and relied on the vapor-compression refrigeration process explained by Michael Faraday. Between 1805, when Oliver Evans designed the first refrigeration machine that used vapor instead of liquid, and 1902 when Willis Haviland Carrier demonstrated the first air conditioner, scores of inventors contributed many small advances in cooling machinery. In 1850 or 1851, Dr. John Gorrie demonstrated an ice maker. In 1857, Australian James Harrison introduced vapor-compression refrigeration to the brewing and meat packing industries. The absorption refrigerator was invented by Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters in 1922, while they were still students at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. It became a worldwide success and was commercialized by Electrolux. Other pioneers included Charles Tellier, David Boyle, and Raoul Pictet.