The LG LRFLC2706S is a mid-range 36-inch counter-depth French door refrigerator. LG advertises a high storage capacity in this counter-depth fridge, a design called Counter-Depth MAX. The refrigerator has many height-adjustable storage options, including split shelves and deep door bins. There's an unobtrusive water dispenser in the fridge and an ice maker in the freezer. A vent at the top of the refrigerator blows cold air downward, a feature Samsung calls Door Cooling+, which cools the door bins first and the rest of the fridge from the front to the back.
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Our Verdict
The LG LRFLC2706S is a decent option for everyday use. The refrigerator has excellent temperature uniformity in the main fridge compartment, ideal for milk or butter on any shelf. The freezer has outstanding temperature uniformity due to the tight temperature control the inverter compressor delivers. Frozen food will remain well frozen, and ice cream will stay consistently hard. The capacity in the fridge and freezer is good, especially considering this is a counter-depth fridge. Unfortunately, produce preservation is only passable, since the refrigerator gets quite dry, and the produce drawers don't retain humidity well, quickly leading to wilted lettuce and soft celery.
Remarkable temperature uniformity.
Good capacity, especially for a counter-depth design.
Multiple variable-height storage options for tall items like gallon milk jugs.
The LG LRFLC2706S delivers mediocre produce preservation performance. Its single evaporator for cooling leads to low humidity in the fridge. Since the produce drawer doesn't retain moisture very well, produce dries out, causing leafy greens to wilt, celery to go soft, and carrots to shrivel up fairly quickly.
Low fridge humidity due to a single evaporator.
Produce drawers don't retain moisture well.
The LG LRFLC2706S offers good refrigerator capacity, almost as much as a standard-depth fridge in a counter-depth design. It uses large door bins, an unobtrusive water dispenser in the fridge rather than a deep dispenser in the door, and an unusually tall, full-width deli drawer. There are also height-adjustable split shelves to accommodate tall items like bottles or gallon milk jugs.
Good capacity, especially for a counter-depth design.
Multiple variable-height storage options for tall items like gallon milk jugs.
The LG LRFLC2706S delivers good freezer capacity, especially considering its counter-depth design. The freezer has wide, tall, configurable spaces in the drawers for large family-sized boxes of burgers, lasagna trays, and pizza boxes. These areas are surprisingly deep for a counter-depth refrigerator, though they can't match a standard-depth design.
Good capacity, especially for a counter-depth design.
The LG LRFLC2706S delivers exceptional temperature uniformity. The refrigerator's even temperature creates good conditions for storing dairy, meat, fruit, and vegetables in almost every location. Freezer temperature uniformity is fantastic, owing to the inverter compressor, which maintains tight temperature control as it cycles. Consistent freezer temperatures are great for storing frozen meats, fish, vegetables, and ice cream.
Excellent temperature uniformity in the refrigerator.
Outstanding temperature uniformity in the freezer.
The LG LRFLC2706S offers impressive ice-making performance. Daily ice production is good, so there should be enough ice for a mid-sized family dinner. The ice storage capacity is excellent; the ice tray can store a large amount of ice for a cocktail party with multiple hosts and guests.
Good ice making rate, enough for several people.
Amazing ice storage capacity, enough for a large event.
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There's only one variant of the stainless steel LG LRFLC2706S. See a photo of our unit's label.
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Popular Refrigerator Comparisons
Where the LG LRFLC2706S really excels for a counter-depth fridge is capacity. It has more usable space than most 36-inch counter-depth refrigerators, including the KitchenAid KRQC506MPS and the Bosch 800 Series B36CT80SNS. Its freezer is also quite capable, with more capacity and better temperature uniformity than the standard-depth GE Profile PVD28BYNFS. Unfortunately, its produce preservation performance is mediocre, much worse than the Bosch 500 Series B36FD52SNS.
The Samsung Bespoke RF24BB6600QL and LG LRFLC2706S each have their own strengths and weaknesses. The Samsung's dual-evaporator design results in noticeably better produce preservation performance, but the LG does a better job of maintaining uniform temperatures throughout the fridge and freezer cabinets. W
hile the Samsung lacks the LG's door-cooling vent, it's important to note that the latter feature only impacts the LG's right door, leaving the left door with as severe a door bin temperature offset as the Samsung. The two fridges offer similar refrigerator capacity, though the LG's fridge cabinet space is a little more flexible, with an additional pair of split shelves and slightly more vertical space for fitting taller items. The LG also has a much more capacious freezer.
The Hisense HRM260N6TSE is a somewhat better fridge than the similarly priced LG LRFLC2706S. The dual evaporator Hisense handily beats the single evaporator LG in produce preservation performance, as well as refrigerator capacity, since the Hisense is standard depth while the LG is counter depth. However, the LG matches the Hisense in freezer capacity, which is notable for a counter-depth freezer. The LG also offers better refrigerator temperature uniformity since it doesn't suffer from the Hisense's warm door bins, and it can make and store much more ice than the Hisense can.
Test Results
The LG LRFLC2706S offers good refrigerator storage capacity. Many storage options make the most of its counter-depth design. You can place its split shelves in six positions to accommodate tall items like upright fresh herbs. The six door bins are deep enough to store gallon milk jugs, and you can move two of them to a different height for tall items like bottles. There are two tiny bins at the bottom of each door for storing small items you want to keep separate, like tubes of tomato paste.
The deli drawer is full-width, which is unusual and leads to a large capacity. It's tall, wide, and deep enough to accommodate one or two cartons of eggs, but you must open both doors fully to pull out the drawer. It's so deep and protrudes so much that the bottom door bins are extremely shallow.
The only hardware that limits capacity is the water filter cover at the top left of the fridge. It allows easy access to the filter but limits the height of items underneath, requiring you to move the split shelf down.
This refrigerator offers good storage capacity in the freezer, especially considering its counter-depth design, which limits depth. There's a minimum of hardware in the freezer that takes away usable space: just two pull-out drawers, with an ice tray in the upper drawer and a movable divider in the bottom drawer. You can store wide or large items like pizza boxes or family-sized boxes of frozen fish or chicken pieces, keeping them organized and separate from other items like ice cream tubs, using the divider. If you remove the ice tray, you can increase the freezer capacity to 5.0 cu ft (141.9 L).
The LG LRFLC2706S's cooling system consists of a single evaporator in the freezer and a single inverter-controlled compressor. Single evaporators are standard in budget and mid-range refrigerators. Although their design is simple and well-proven, they can lead to low humidity in the fridge and negatively impact temperature control.
Inverter compressors operate at a variable speed based on load. They save power and control temperature better than older fixed-speed compressors, but the inverter controller adds another potential critical failure point.
The ice maker is in the upper part of the freezer and deposits its ice in a large tray on the left side of the upper freezer pull-out drawer. It's a better location from a reliability standpoint than an ice maker in the fridge, which is common in French door models with in-door ice and water dispensers.
However, this ice maker is a twist-tray design, which isn't as reliable as an ejector-type. In a twist-tray ice maker, a motor twists ice cubes from a plastic tray. The plastic tray can break, especially as it gets more brittle with age in freezing temperatures. An ejector-type uses a metal mold and doesn't need to twist, so it's more robust and reliable in the long term.
The water dispenser is inside the fridge and consists of a simple, low-profile assembly with a nozzle that you activate by pressing a container against a large button. Although this design isn't accessible from outside the door, it saves space in the fridge.
This design is quite similar to the water dispenser in the GE GNE27JYMFS.
This refrigerator has excellent temperature uniformity in the main fridge compartment and two of the door bins. Temperatures between fridge shelves are remarkably even. At first, the door bins may appear to be colder than the rest of the fridge due to the Door Cooling+ vent, which blows cold air from the top down the front of the refrigerator.
However, a Reddit user pointed out that this door cooling system only consists of a small vent on the right and that the full-width vent grill doesn't evenly distribute cold air. We verified this claim by checking under the grill. This discovery explains the unusual result of the door bins getting colder than the rest of the fridge; our temperature sensor is directly below the vent. To verify whether this cooled the other door bins properly or not, we placed temperature sensors in each bin and operated the fridge at its normal temperature setpoint of 37 °F (2.8 °C) for six days. The results are:
| Location | Temperature |
|---|---|
| Right door top | 34.2 °F (1.2 °C) |
| Right door middle | 36.2 °F (2.3 °C) |
| Right door bottom | 38.1 °F (3.4 °C) |
| Right door average | 36.1 °F (2.3 °C) |
| Left door top | 40.9 °F (4.9 °C) |
| Left door middle | 39.3 °F (4.0 °C) |
| Left door bottom | 39.4 °F (4.1 °C) |
| Left door average | 39.8 °F (4.4 °C) |
The grill doesn't evenly distribute air, and significant temperature differences exist between the door bins, with the warmest being the left door top bin. The right door bins are very well cooled and would be great for storing temperature-sensitive items like milk or butter, but you should use the left door bins only as a chiller for more robust foodstuffs like beverages, condiments, or sauces.
The freezer exhibits outstanding temperature uniformity throughout. The inverter compressor leads to tight temperature control as the compressor cycles; the temperature barely moves around its setpoint.
Produce preservation is mediocre. The humidity in the fridge is low due to the single evaporator, and the produce drawer doesn't maintain much higher humidity, so produce dries out fairly quickly. Leafy greens like lettuce will wilt, celery will go soft, and carrots will begin shrivelling up in a week or less.
