The Samsung Bespoke RF30BB6200QL is a high-end 36-inch standard-depth fridge with a French door design. It boasts an inverter compressor and twin evaporators to provide more precise humidity regulation and to limit odor transference between the fridge and freezer compartments. Beyond that, it comes with an auto-filling water pitcher, twin ice makers for making full-sized cubes and pebbled ice, and high-capacity pantry drawers.
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Our Verdict
The Samsung Bespoke RF30BB6200QL is very good for everyday use. This is a highly feature-rich fridge, with a generously-sized interior with plenty of storage solutions, a built-in auto-filling water pitcher, and a twin-evaporator design that helps improve produce preservation performance. It also puts out plenty of ice, with a pair of ice makers that can produce conventional cubes or smaller ice nuggets. It delivers good overall performance, with good overall temperature consistency, barring slightly higher temperatures in the lower portion of the refrigerator cabinet, and very good produce preservation performance.
Twin-evaporator design allows for more precise humidity control in fridge and freezer compartments.
Superb temperature uniformity in freezer cabinet.
Auto-filling pitcher.
High storage capacity in refrigerator compartment.
High capacity pantry cabinets and produce drawers.
Temperatures trend slightly higher in lower half of the fridge compartment.
Auto-fill pitcher takes up space in refrigerator door.
The Samsung Bespoke RF30BB6200QL's produce preservation performance is very good. The humidity levels both inside the produce drawer and in the main cabinet are relatively high, which minimizes moisture loss from delicate foodstuffs like celery or lettuce, which in turn keeps it crisp and fresh.
Twin-evaporator design allows for more precise humidity control in fridge and freezer compartments.
High humidity level in refrigerator cabinet and crisper drawers helps keep produce fresh.
The Samsung Bespoke RF30BB6200QL offers excellent refrigerator capacity. The cabinet is very generously-sized, with two large pantry cabinets and a pair of crisper drawers. The door bins have sufficient capacity to fit bigger items like milk jugs, though the autofilling water pitcher does take up a bit of room on the right-hand door. However, this space isn't the most reconfigurable, with only two split shelves and one additional position for the door bins.
High storage capacity in refrigerator compartment.
High capacity pantry cabinets and produce drawers.
Auto-fill pitcher takes up space in refrigerator door.
The Samsung Bespoke RF30BB6200QL provides decent freezer capacity. Considering this is a wide 36-inch model, the actual usable space inside the cabinet isn't all that impressive, with an upper drawer that's partially dominated by its high-capacity ice bucket. At the very least, the lower bins are somewhat deep. You might find it hard to fit larger boxed items inside, though it should do just fine for more compressible items like frozen veggies or fruit.
Somewhat deep lower freezer bins.
Large ice tray takes up room in freezer.
The Samsung Bespoke RF30BB6200QL's temperature uniformity performance is excellent for the most part. The bottom shelf inside the refrigerator is a little warmer than the rest of the compartment, as are the lowest door bins, though thankfully not by an enormous amount. Temperatures inside the freezer are extremely uniform, but trend lower than average, due to Samsung's algorithm that cools the compartment during the ice-making process. As a result, there's no need to worry about things like ice cream going soft if you place it on a higher shelf.
Superb temperature uniformity in freezer cabinet.
Temperatures on middle and top shelves and door bins are very uniform.
Temperatures trend slightly higher in lower half of the fridge compartment.
The Samsung Bespoke RF30BB6200QL is great for ice making. It's fitted with two in-freezer ice makers, allowing it to produce normally-sized cubes and smaller ice nuggets. In terms of ice production rate, it's excellent, being able to produce enough ice for a moderately-sized party within a day. Its ice trays are also more than large enough to supply enough ice for a big family barbecue or a cocktail party.
Dual ice makers allow for high ice production.
High-capacity ice tray.
Performance Usages
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
Samsung's lineup of Bespoke fridges is enormous, and runs the gamut of design types, from full-depth French door models to counter-depth side-by-sides. While most models share similar internals, we can't guarantee that they'll perform similarly due to large differences in their physical design.
| Model Name | Design | Width | Panel Color | Counter Depth | Notes/Additional Features |
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3-Door French Door | 36" |
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No | Removable auto-filling water pitcher |
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3-Door French Door | 36" |
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No | In-door 'Beverage Center' for water dispenser and drinks storage |
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3-Door French Door | 36" |
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Yes | In-door 'Beverage Center' for water dispenser and drinks storage |
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3-Door French Door | 36" |
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Yes | Removable auto-filling water pitcher |
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4-Door French Door | 36" |
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No | In-door 'Beverage Center' for water dispenser and drinks storage |
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4-Door French Door | 36" |
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Yes | In-door 'Beverage Center' for water dispenser and drinks storage |
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4-Door Flex | 36" |
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Yes | Comes with a 32" 'AI Family Hub' touchscreen display to list items inside, view the inside of the fridge with a built-in camera, listen to music, or watch TV. |
| RF23DB960012AA | 4-Door Flex | 36" | White | Yes | In-door 'Beverage Center' for water dispenser and drinks storage |
| RF23DB9750QLAA | 4-Door Flex | 36" | Gray | Yes |
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| RF29DB9600QLAA | 4-Door Flex | 36" | Stainless Steel | No | In-door 'Beverage Center' for water dispenser and drinks storage |
| RF90F23BECRAA | 4-Door French Door | 36" | Stainless Steel | Yes | Comes with a 9" 'AI Home' touchscreen display to list items inside of view the inside of the fridge with a built-in camera. |
| RS23CB760012AA | Side-by-side | 36" | White | Yes | In-door 'Beverage Center' for water dispenser and drinks storage |
Our test unit is the RF30BB6200QL/RF30BB6200QLAA, being a standard-depth 3-door French-door model with an auto-filling water pitcher. For those interested, here's the product label.
If you come across another variant of the Samsung Bespoke fridge, let us know in the comments so that we can update our review.
Popular Refrigerator Comparisons
The Samsung Bespoke RF30BB6200QL is a high-end 36-inch French-door fridge. While it's still packed to the gills with features, like a quartet of pull-out drawers for pantry items and produce, an automatically-filling water pitcher, and a pair of ice makers, its feature-set is actually a little modest next to some other Samsung Bespoke models: there's no in-door water or ice dispenser and no built-in touchscreen, which are likely to involve costly repairs where they to fail. This fridge actually executes very well on the fundamentals, with a high-capacity refrigeration cabinet, good overall temperature uniformity, and superior produce preservation performance to direct competitors like the GE Profile PGE29BYTFS and Bosch 100 Series B36FD10ENS. That said, it is worth noting that these alternatives also have higher-capacity freezers.
The Samsung Bespoke RF24BB6600QL and Samsung Bespoke RF30BB6200QL are similarly designed French-door refrigerators, but fulfill different needs, given their difference in sizing. The RF30BB6200QL is a standard-depth unit that offers increased capacity, particularly in its freezer compartment, making it a more suitable option for larger families. Meanwhile, the RF24BB6600QL counter-depth sizing is designed to appeal to those who want a near-flush fit inside their kitchens and don't mind the reduction in capacity. The RF24BB6600QL's in-door 'Beverage Center' also helps keep cans and bottles organized, but plays a small part in its somewhat high door bin temperature offset.
The Maytag MRFF4236RZ and Samsung Bespoke RF30BB6200QL are both evenly matched standard-depth French door refrigerators, though they do have slightly different strengths. The Maytag employs a simpler single-evaporator, fixed-speed compressor cooling system design to achieve comparable product preservation and temperature uniformity to the Samsung, which uses a more complex cooling system comprising dual evaporators and an inverter-controlled compressor. While simplicity isn't a guarantee of reliability, it does present fewer failure points. Beyond that, the Maytag's ejector-style ice maker is less likely to break due to long-term wear than the Samsung's dual twist-tray ice makers, although the latter setup does have a higher yield. It's also worth noting that the Samsung provides a noticeable amount of extra room in its fridge and freezer cabinets versus the Maytag.
Test Results
Samsung has made a lot of hay about the customizability aspect of the Bespoke lineup. You can buy most variants of this fridge without the standard-fit stainless steel panels and swap them out for glass panels available in 11 other colors.
If you'd like a preview of what those panels would look like in the real world, you can also use Samsung's Bespoke Kitchen Design Studio configurator.
The Samsung Bespoke RF30BB6200QL's refrigerator storage capacity is excellent. As a 36-inch standard-depth unit, this isn't too surprising: it makes good use of the space, with two split shelves for taller items, two produce drawers, as well as two high-capacity pantry drawers. Similarly, the door bins are deep enough to fit larger items like milk jugs, though they don't offer much in the way of flexibility, with only one additional positional slot.
The Samsung Bespoke RF30BB6200QL's freezer storage capacity is only decent. Despite its fairly large footprint, the room inside the freezer is reduced by two main factors: the lower bins don't extend that far along the depth of the cabinet due to a bump-out at the rear of the space, and the high-capacity ice tray, which takes up approximately 30% of the usable cabinet space. Usable volume increases to 4.69 cu. ft. (132.90 L) with the ice bucket removed. As a result of all this, you might find it difficult to fit large and rigid boxed items inside this compartment, like frozen fish or chicken.
This freezer capacity is identical to the GE GNE27JYMFS, which has a smaller ice tray but a shorter top freezer drawer.
The Samsung Bespoke RF30BB6200QL uses a twin-evaporator design, with separate coils in the refrigerator and freezer compartments. This setup allows for more precise humidity control within each of the two compartments. Beyond that, since air is circulated within the confines of each compartment, there's no odor transference across both sections.
It also uses a single inverter-style compressor. Twin-compressor setups are far from a common design aspect, traditionally only found on commercial and very high-end household fridges, so that isn't something that would be necessarily expected. However, some higher-end models, like the Bosch 800 Series B36CT80SNS, do use two compressors, which provide more precise temperature regulation in each section of the unit. A dual compressor design also provides additional redundancy in the event that one compressor fails.
This fridge has a pair of twist-tray ice makers, one for making larger cubes and the other for producing 'ice nuggets' (effectively pebbled ice). Traditionally, the plastic used in twist-tray ice makers can be made brittle by cold temperatures and frequent torsional rotation, but at the very least, these ice trays are of a very simple design and can be accessed quickly.
They're also located in the freezer, which is generally preferable as far as ice maker placement goes, as there's no need to maintain a stable microclimate like there would be for an ice maker built into a fridge door.
The RF30BB6200QL comes with Samsung's Autofill pitcher. The included pitcher slots into a recess on the inside of the door, where it's refilled with filtered water if the water level inside has dropped. Unfortunately, you can't refill a glass directly from this source.
Temperature uniformity within the fridge is good for the most part. The top and middle shelves are both similarly cold, though, unusually, the bottom shelf is a little warmer than the rest of the cabinet. Similarly, the lower door bin is a little on the warmer side, though not to the extent that it would drastically impact the spoilage of temperature-sensitive items like milk or cream.
Temperatures inside this unit's freezer compartment are remarkably consistent. You won't have to worry about items in the upper section of the cabinet getting soft while others become frozen solid; all items should be cooled to a similar degree.
It's worth noting that temperatures inside the freezer compartment trend well below the baseline we've observed in most other fridges. This is an intended design trait, with Samsung's cooling algorithm lowering the freezer temperature to hasten the ice-making process. It isn't a massive difference compared to most other freezers, and is unlikely to result in ice buildup on the freezer evaporator coils.
The Samsung Bespoke RF30BB6200QL's produce preservation performance is very good. Humidity levels inside the produce drawers can remain at a pretty high level, though it is worth noting that humidity levels inside the rest of the refrigeration compartment are also somewhat high, which can help keep produce crisp and fresh even when it's placed outside the crisper drawer.
The Samsung Bespoke RF30BB6200QL's ice production rate is impressive. This is no doubt driven by the twin ice makers and the freezer's lower-than-average temperatures, which accelerate the ice production process. You have the choice of going between smaller ice nuggets for quicker cooling and dilution in drinks and more conventionally-sized cubes for slower, more gradual dilution.
