A smart fridge?
This is something I didn’t even know I needed in my life.
But here we are.
Hey y’all!
It’s Ashley Renne and welcome back to my sustainable travel, lifestyle and smart tech
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Right now you’re watching my Smart Home series where I walk you through our smart
home setup to give you the tools, tips, and inspiration to help you build your own smart
home.
This week’s episode is about my smart fridge.
I gotta say a smart fridge didn’t really cross my mind when I was thinking about what
smart tech to fill my home with.
I had already stocked up on tons of smart tech products before I partnered up with The
Home Depot to trick my smart home out even more, so this was a really cool addition to
my setup that I hadn’t been planning to add.
I was on their website using their Smart Home Tool to look at my options, and that’s when
I came across the Samsung Family Hub Smart Refrigerator.
There are different models of this fridge ranging in price, but we got the 4-Door French.
Let’s dive right into the benefits of having a smart refrigerator.
The Samsung Family Hub puts a modern twist on old, traditional uses in an attempt to
keep refrigerators relevant for this day and age.
It helps you manage not only your food, but also your life.
And it does this via its ability to connect to smart devices as well as its very own massive
touchscreen that has apps and voice assistance built in.
It’s kinda like a giant tablet in the sense that you can use it to control your smart
home just as you would with a phone or your tablet.
Probably one of its most unique features is it gives you the ability to see inside your
fridge from anywhere.
This comes in really handy when you’re out grocery shopping.
There have been plenty of times when I’ve been at the grocery store picking up ingredients
for a recipe and I can’t recall what I already have at home.
Has that ever happened to you?
If you can relate, you might really enjoy this benefit because you can pull up a live
feed of your existing groceries on your phone while shopping.
As I mentioned earlier, a smart fridge puts modern spins on traditional fridge uses.
For example, remember back in the day when you would leave notes for your family on the
fridge?
You can leave them digitally now.
It has a place where you can write notes.
You can also create shopping lists, set notifications for when food expires, and see the inside
of your fridge from the display without having to open it.
They have all sorts of apps to help you stay organized.
You can buy groceries, pull up recipes, or order food.
As you can see, there are tons of apps to play around with.
Pull up your calendar, to-do lists, memos, a digital whiteboard.
Let’s say your kid or spouse is running late, they can send a message straight to
your fridge letting you know.
The SmartThings app is particularly useful because you can use it to control your smart
devices and appliances.
Of course—the compatibility depends on your larger smart home ecosystem.
Turn your lights off/on, adjust your thermostat, see who’s outside when someone rings the
doorbell, turn on the washing machine, even pull up a smart baby monitor, so and so forth.
Of course It connects to WI-FI, allowing you to get regular updates and new features.
It also has apps to keep you entertained.
You can play your favorite music from a number of streaming applications like Pandora and
Spotify so you don’t drain your phone battery.
The fridge has Bluetooth connectivity so you can pair it to headphones or an external speaker
if you like—but it has its own speaker system built in so it’ll play it from the fridge.
On top of music, you can mirror whatever is playing on your TV which could be useful depending
on the layout of your home.
For me, I don’t use it to watch television because we have an open floor plan and my
living room TV is in my direct line of sight when I’m prepping food on the island.
However, I do use the display to view recipe videos.
Alright so besides all the smart stuff, how does it stack up as an actual refrigerator
outside of the smart tech features?
The design is different from my last fridge so I’m still getting accustomed to it.
The only minor annoyance I had in the beginning there’s little feature my old fridge had
that I really loved.
With my old fridge, I could set my glass down, pre-select how many ounces of water I wanted,
and then it would just dispense the water without me having to hold it there.
I thought I would miss it, until I learned the Samsung Family Hub Smart fridge has an
alternative I fell in love with even more—automatic refillable infused water, which I’ll get
into in a second.
Our 4-Door French model is broken up into 3 different compartments.
The upper half is the refrigerator portion, the middle is the flex zone, and the bottom
level is the freezer.
Upper Zone: The refrigerator portion is spacious enough for what you need and it’s pretty
customizable.
My favorite part is this autofill pitcher that you can use as an infuser.
It automatically refills when you put it back and close the door, so you always have fresh,
cool water when you need it.
This is a great health benefit—I definitely wasn’t drinking infused water before this.
Middle Zone: With the flex zone, you can change the temperature based on what you want the
settings to be—even wine or beverages.
Let’s say you want to use the flex zone to chill your white wine, you can do just
that and the adjustable compartments will allow you to arrange things to your needs.
The drawer has a Smart Divider that sections off food to cool at different temperatures
for flexible storage.
Lower Zone: The freezer has a top drawer and bottom drawer.
You can slide dividers back and forth to adjust them as needed.
So that’s it for my overview of the Samsung Family Hub Smart Refrigerator!
Last I checked, it’s significantly on SALE at The Home Depot, so take advantage of it
while you can.
This was sent to us from The Home Depot.
They will install it for you and move your old fridge to another part of the house (we
had ours moved to the basement) for free.
Or you can have them remove it from your home entirely for a small fee.
They have price match guarantees so if you find this cheaper at any of their competitors,
they will match it!
So I’m curious, how would you use a smart fridge in your daily life?
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See y’all next week, until then keep on living an adventurously green life.