Samsung Bespoke RF29BB8600AP French-door refrigerator review - Reviewed

Updated May 29, 2024

The Samsung RF29BB8600AP (available at Samsung) French-door refrigerator is a high-performance option for those who want aesthetic flair in their kitchen. Part of Samsung’s Bespoke line-up, this gorgeous fridge boasts custom-finish panels for each of its doors. You can mix and match the styles and colors for a look that’s truly your own—and yes, you have to buy the panels separately. The Samsung Bespoke refrigerator provides good storage options, steady temperatures, a flex drawer, and an internal beverage center for water and ice. While you could get a French-door fridge with similar performance and features for a lower price, like the Frigidaire Gallery FG4H2272UF, you won’t be able to find one with the same customizable appearance.

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Solid fridge temperatures

Flexible-temperature drawer

Customizable aesthetic

The custom-color panels are a separate purchase

Like many modern French doors, this Samsung Bespoke refrigerator features a four-door design, with two doors that open to the main fridge compartment, a flex drawer, and a freezer drawer.

The left door features a door-in-door design, which lets you open the door's outer panel to access its beverage center and bins without fully opening the door. Fully opening the door also provides this access, but lets more cold air escape.

Opening both fridge doors fully reveals a standard French-door interior with one full-length shelf, two half-width shelves (one that can fold to be half-depth), and two large crispers. The control panel is on the right wall.

The flex drawer contains two dividers that can be repositioned to further customize its storage space.

The freezer has an internal drawer to help break up the storage. This drawer is mostly dedicated to the freezer’s ice troughs, but it does offer some storage. Underneath is a storage bin separated by a divider down its center.

The fridge’s control panel is located along its right wall, remaining easily accessible even when the fridge is packed.

The temperatures in the fridge were consistent, both over time and throughout the compartment.

While the main selling point of this fridge is its aesthetics, it's also capable of some impressive performance.

In the fridge compartment, temperatures averaged 36.9°F, which is just about perfect. Over the testing period, these temperatures remained remarkably consistent, only varying by about 2°F at most, and staying well within the appropriate range. During testing, temperatures also didn’t vary from one spot in the fridge to another. This is less than 2°F of variance throughout—meaning you won’t have to worry about warmer or cooler spots within this Samsung Bespoke refrigerator.

For those readers who don’t spend their time in a refrigerator lab like we do, it can be oblique as to why refrigerators need to maintain precise temperatures. In the fridge compartment, you need temperatures to stay between 32°F and 40°F: any colder and items will freeze, and any warmer and food will spoil faster. In the freezer, you need temperatures to hover right around 0°F to ensure proper freezing, and any inconsistencies in the temperature will cause freezer burn.

In the freezer of this Samsung French-door refrigerator, temperatures weren’t as consistent—but they weren’t bad by a long shot. We saw one spike of about 4°F and another that was 2°F, but other than those two instances, temperatures remained steady over the entire week of testing.

We are fans of Samsung’s door-in-door design, which splits the left-hand door into two parts. Opening both simply opens the door normally, but only opening the external portion gives you access to the fridge’s beverage center, as well as items stored in that door’s bins.

The goal of this design is to provide easier access to some items without needing to open the door fully, because whenever the door is opened, it lets cold air escape. In turn, this makes the fridge work overtime to cool everything back down to the correct levels again.

Using the door-in-door to access items lets less cold air escape, which means temperatures are able to remain more consistent over time without taxing your fridge’s compressor too much.

The inside of the flex drawer features adjustable dividers to customize the space to your storage needs.

Nestled between the fridge and freezer is the Samsung Bespoke refrigerator’s flex drawer. This isolated compartment adapts to your storage needs by providing a third compartment that can be set to a custom temperature.

This allows you to store items at a temperature that may be too warm for most of the items in your normal fridge compartment—set the flex drawer to a perfect 55°F and pop in a few wine bottles for chilling.

You can also crank temperatures down below zero for extra freezer space. This extra freezer space could be a boon for those who rely on frozen foods, as it actually gives this Samsung Bespoke refrigerator more total freezer storage space than the average French-door fridge. With the dedicated freezer and flex drawer combined, you get 5.28 cubic feet of storage, more than the 4.69 cubic feet in the average fridge.

An extra 0.59 cubic feet of space may not seem like a lot, but it’s actually two full-size bowling balls’-worth.

Our model of the Samsung Bespoke RF29BB8600AP had orange glass fridge doors and white glass panels on the flex and freezer drawers.

One of the main reasons to buy into the Bespoke line of appliances is that it’s a lower-priced option for a customized look.

Other custom fridges, from brands like Miele and Dacor, can cost over $6,000.

Even though the interchangeable panels are sold separately—$184.99 for the bottom panel, $74.99 for the middle drawer, and $119.99 each for the two top panels—this fridge is still at least $1,000 cheaper than many of the alternatives out there.

Currently, the Samsung Bespoke refrigerator line-up consists of seven color options in glass finish and five colors in steel finish. This means there’s a total of 343 combinations in glass, 125 combinations in steel, and if you don’t mind mixing and matching the two finishes, 1,331 combinations in total.

That’s significantly more choice than traditional fridges, which typically offer between two and six options.

If you want to take advantage of the Bespoke custom panels, which is, after all, the point of having a Samsung Bespoke refrigerator, they’ll add an additional cost on top of the purchase price.

Again, while Samsung’s Bespoke custom panels are a relatively inexpensive way to get a custom look, that doesn’t mean they’re cheap: You’re still spending an additional $500 on pure aesthetics.

Whether or not this fits into your budget is up to you, but if you don’t care about getting a custom look, you can get an equally well-performing fridge for about the same price or lower.

Owners generally love their Samsung RF29BB8600AP, awarding it an average of 4.7 out of 5 stars across major retailers. Most of these reviews seemed clustered around 5 stars, with 4 stars coming in a distant second and the remaining ratings only having a handful of reviews among them.

Those who love this fridge are first and foremost fans of its appearance: Almost every positive review gushes about how beautiful the fridge looked in their kitchen.

The negative reviews that were less than 5 stars didn’t have much connective tissue amongst their individual complaints, outside of a general preference for through-the-door dispensers over internal dispensers.

Samsung offers one of the better warranties in the appliance space. The standard warranty is a single year of coverage for parts and labor. On top of that, Samsung guarantees the sealed refrigeration system for up to five years and the digital inverter compressor for up to 10 years.

Looking at its different test scores, it is difficult to come up with any salient criticism for this Samsung Bespoke refrigerator aside from its price. It has near-perfect fridge temperatures, its freezer performance is solid, and it comes outfitted with internal water and ice dispensers, a door-in-door design, and a flex drawer. It has a lot to love, and that's before you start diving into its appearance customization options.

Keep in mind that you are paying a premium for its customizable Bespoke look. If it's not for you, you can find similarly good performance and features in a less expensive model. For example, the excellent Frigidaire Gallery FG4H2272UF also has a flex drawer and even better performance for a few hundred dollars less.

A high-performance French-door refrigerator with tons of customizable options.

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Mark Brezinski

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Mark Brezinski works on the Home Team, reviewing refrigerators, minifridges, dishwashers, washing machines, dryers, air conditioners, air purifiers, and fans.

Michael Elderbee

Product Test Technician

Michael is a Product Test Technician at Reviewed and regularly tests refrigerators, dishwashers, and laundry appliances. His 5 years as a behavioral technician has given him a strong appreciation for data collection and research.

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