Whirlpool 330 L Frost Free Multi-Door Refrigerator(FP 343D PROTTON ROY ALPHA STEEL (N), Alpha Steel)

Writing this review after full 1 month usage. Who should buy this fridge ? Why this 3 door if same 330 Liters is available in two doors ?

How many in your home ?
For starters, we wanted a fridge that could store food for 4 adults and 2 children. I would recommend this fridge (or any fridge of this 330 L size) if 2 adults + is your home composition. There’s a lot of space for everyone’s food to be stored.

What is your vegetable consumption ? Do you buy for the week vs. buying fresh every other day vs. buying lot of veggies and fruits…big fruits, small fruits ? Are you foodie ?
Given our family size, we buy vegetables and fruits every second or third day. Cauliflowers need not be broken to be stored, other vegetables needn’t be clustered or pushed over other. There’s plenty of space for a week’s worth of vegetables.

3 door vs 2 door ?
The third door literally has given more space since its not sharing the space with main area. There’s room that we saw in the showroom’s that wasn’t same as others. All other fridges of similar size had the veggie area appear big, once we took out the containers we saw that the containers were not upright, they were slanting in, so the space was lesser. I measured the insides with tape on this and other fridges in showroom and then decided to buy this.
If you need more space for vegetables and fruits, go for it. If you donot need so much space but what is usually provided in 300+ L capacity fridges, then go for two door. Do keep in mind, the exchange rate of two door fridges (no matter which brand) comes down quiet heavily if you are one of those who would go for exchange in 3-4 years.

Our overall experience – My first big budget ( Above Rs. 25,000) online. I was skeptical but the exchange rate offered on my nothing wrong LG two door fridge (around 6,000) without any questions asked was much better offer than some of the retailers in Bangalore who were only willing to pay maximum of Rs. 1000). I bought it for that reason, old fridge had to go out, it was beautiful but space was becoming constraint.

Whirlpool have a masterpiece in this fridge. no stabilizer is required, it is very quiet, sometimes I touch to see if its running, the consumption is supposed to be less than that of a CFL in a year, I wouldn’t be surely measuring it but its good to know its consuming less power. Vegetables are fresh, cooling isn’t a concern. Some found that the light is not LED and that was a problem for them, not for me, its not like you are in darkness when opening the fridge and LED alone would help you find what you are looking for. The light is quiet good, freezer is good too.

Whirlpool packing was amazing. I took a video of the unpacking (had to do it myself since the technician was on leave due to festivities, the manager promised to send him after he returns but no one so far). Upon his instruction, I opened the carton and the fridge was surprisingly lighter for its capacity. I and my wife moved it out of the bottom packing, have to do some carrying each side to get it out of the bottom packing).

We are very happy with the fridge, the space especially. Mind you its slender and tall and not tall and wide like some of the other fridges. I had expected it to be wider but this was awesome size. We couldn’t get the white (white wasn’t on exchange), that would be our recommendation, not that this color is dull. This will make you stop and look at the tall steel persona in the room 🙂

Amazing deal from Amazon, prompt shipping, excellent delivery, thank you !

Positives:-
– Loved the 3 door concept and cooling mechanism.
– Very spacious inside and different sections are well thought for placing different items like dairy products, fruits, vegetables etc.
– Looks big tower size but amazing design
– Fast cooling as per noticed in 1 day of usage.

Negatives:-
-Only drawback found is that the sides become hot (not warm as mentioned in labels on fridge) and might be dangerous if small kids are around or even if accidentally someone touches it. Will check with company for any solution or if its issue with my purchased model.

The 5* rating is for Amazon service and Also to the refridgerator.

Earlier I had bought 300L of same model. The product was defective, There was light frost formation in the freezer area. I called up Whirlpool service, within few days supervisor attended and informed me to use it for 5-6 more days and frost will never form. He had seen few models forming frost initially for few days And the supervisor did promise for a replacement in case the frost formation wasn’t solved.
But all the conversation was Oral and I had only few days left to return so didn’t take a chance.
This is where Amazon service stands outstanding, they sent pickup guys at the scheduled time and complete money was refunded in 2 days.

As we were really sure it was a defective product. We decided to buy the same again from Amazon and this time a little bigger one.
This time, there is no frost formation. It’s a very spacious fridge.
Mainly I liked the segregated storing unit for vegetables. In my old fridge often the liquid items were getting the odor of vegetables / leaves stored in the fridge. There is absolutely no problem with this whirlpool model. And also vegetables looks fresh even after weeks of storage. (not completely sure) looks like the active fresh zone with moisture retention works good for the vegetables.

Freezer area is quite spacious and there are small racks so we can load good amount of ice creams, ice cubes etc…

The look is very much different with the available varieties in the market. Whirlpool have got rid of big handles for the big fridge.
When I bought this on Great Indian Sale, I was thinking why there is no offer on Black color and with half intention i decided to Buy Alpha steel color. Trust me the color really looks good than it appears in the amazon portal.
Consumes less electricity.
Would have been good if LEDs were installed inside the fridge. It’s all CFL.
Overall, very nice product.