I am an 80-year-old widower in a comfortable senior community. The apartment was furnished with a smallish refrigerator/freezer. Since I rely heavily on my personal chef, Marie C and her associates, freezer space has been at a premium since I moved here 2 1/2 years ago. I found myself missing out on very attractive sales simply due to a lack of freezer space. I had a convenient spot on the open wall in my kitchen, so I began looking for a small, well rated chest freezer to enable more convenient frozen storage. Amazon had quite a variety of 3 1/2 and 5 cu ft freezers from which to choose, and after more than enough deliberation, I settled on the Midea 3.5. The price was certainly attractive, and the reviews were good, so I ordered one. Free delivery was promised in less than a week, and Amazon even beat that. Two reps showed up on time and spotted the boxed unit where requested. The carton was completely unblemished and easy to remove from the unit with a box cutter. The freezer inside was protected on all sides by substantial Styrofoam forms. A brief instruction manual, frost scraper and warranty were in a plastic bag taped to the unit. The removable basket was also taped to the inside top to preclude damage from rattling around loose. All sides, top and the inside were in pristine condition. After removing all packaging and the few strips of transparent blue tape, I was ready to plug the unit to the wall receptacle and get the chill going. I planned to wait the prescribed couple of hours to enable the freon to settle, but I did want to locate the plug and ensure that it would reach the receptacle. Here things got a little tricky. Fortunately, in the course of my reading of prior user reviews, I learned that removing the cord from the lower rear of the unit required close examination of the closely fitted white on white enclosure to locate a small depression for use in opening the tight-fitting small door. I found the depression, found a way to quickly leverage the door open and released the plug and cord of sufficient length. I closed the door, easily moved the unit the prescribed 6 in. from the wall and after the few hours wait, plugged it in and listened for startup. I had read that the unit was quiet, but this thing is REALLY quiet. It was so quiet and vibration free that I wasn't certain it was running. After a couple of hours unattended, I returned, lifted the lid and looked at the thermometer I had hung from the removable basket. To my great delight, it already read near zero degrees F. Since that time a couple of days ago, I have ordered some stackable wire baskets to make locating and handling frozen items more convenient and placed a dozen or so initial items in the freezer, still in their plastic grocery store bags pending delivery of the new baskets. Once I get everything together and loaded and have some period to assess longer term satisfaction, I will update this review. Until then, I am completely satisfied with my utterly silent new white chest freezer.
Dee Nelson
Coffee Fan
