Danby 7.2 Cu. Ft. Chest Freezer with Manual Defrost and Adjustable Temperature Control

au: The freezer works okay, but my old freezer worked better. This one gets more frost than I expected.
It did not come with a warrantee, but thankfully, I did not need it.

United States on Mar 23, 2023

P. Bertrand: i bought this because i live in an apartment , and you only get a small area for food storage , so i picked this up to be able to buy more foods to freeze so i can eat when i want to , so this worked out perfectly for me.

United States on Mar 03, 2023

TorontoDude: Like most freezer or fridges, this is VERY NOISY and only should be put in a storage type room where u won't hear it often. otherwise its a great product

Canada on Aug 27, 2020

E. Hanes: The Amazon scheduled delivery service was great! The delivery guys phoned me about 20 minutes before their arrival, which occurred right in the middle of the delivery window. They were very professional, brought the freezer into my garage, opened the package and helped me inspect the unit. There was a small cosmetic dent on the lower edge of the door (which was a factory defect, not due to shipping; the packaging was pristine), and one of the metal strips over the coils on the back was bent, but I just bent it back right then and there.

After the delivery guys left, I laid the freezer on its back to swap the door hinges because my application requires a left-handed door. In fact, one of the reasons I chose this specific freezer was because it has a reversible door. Note the hinge hardware is on the bottom of this freezer, not on the top like a typical upright. **Before you begin to remove the door hardware, check to make sure none of the bolt heads got stripped out at the factory during assembly.** In my case, two of them were stripped, and it took a vice grip, WD40 and a whole lotta cussing for me to loosen those two bolts. They apparently are not a standard size, because...

United States on Feb 10, 2019

Sketch: Pros:
It's keeping things frozen, so it works!

Cons:
I think it sounds like Darth Vader sighing. We can hear it across the house.
My wife thinks it sounds like fans cheering at a hockey game.

This is a basement dwelling appliance for sure - keep it at least two rooms away from anywhere that you spend time.

Canada on Jul 30, 2018

Amazon Customer: Very pleased with this purchase. It is a bit more expensive than others we have purchased (igloo specifically) but buying Danby is well worth it as their products and customer service are both far superior. With this freezer you can change the side of the door mount to have it open either left or right which is great!

Canada on Jun 14, 2018

ML: Good machine, works well, keeps things well frozen. Would be nicer with adjustable shelves and some kind of defrost so you don't have to unload it completely when defrosting. Perhaps these features are available in higher priced models? At least it DOES have door shelves which are a real asset.

Canada on Apr 05, 2018

Tim McNally: The price is right and delivery was fast. The only thing I have an issue with is there is only one adjustable leg to level. I have it fully turned in, and still have to put a shim under opposite leg.

Canada on Apr 03, 2017

DebDeb: 7.2 Cu ft freezer arrived damaged, although the shipping boxes (box within box) did not appear damaged at all. The bottom metal motor mounting plate was bent up from bottom, the motor and tubing had dented the "floor" above it. Also, the lid was dented where 2 "protective" spacers were placed. The lid had 2 cracks inside where it had pushed down onto the hanging basket. Shipping boxes appear fine. Wonder where the damage occurred. Before it's even packaged at Danby factory? Strange. Set up a replacement through amazon. I'll package it up and they will pick it up for free and replacement is already scheduled to arrive in a week. I will update the review then. Looking forward to having a non-damaged working freezer! It looks nice an spacious.

UPDATE: 2nd freezer arrived today. (Fast shipping!) It has numerous minor scratches and dents. I can deal with that. However the lid does not seal tight along the back. The sides and front are fine, but in the back there is about an eighth inch gap letting out cold air. This is not acceptable as we would be wasting energy constantly and there would be greater frost build up inside. Will be returning for a 3rd replacement. Maybe "Third...

United States on Sep 09, 2016

Noel S.: This freezer does the job reasonably well - it doesn't get things down to 0 degrees farenheit, but it gets close and that's good enough for my purposes. Things are very safely frozen in this thing. It also isn't very noisy, though you can tell when the compressor kick in.

One thing to note is that the shelves are not removable (without disconnecting the "quick freeze" mechanism, which I'm not sure you can and which I don't think they'd recommend) or adjustable.

Also, keep in mind this is not a freezer for storing items you want to get to regularly (e.g. don't put ice pops in there on a hot summer day and go running in to retrieve one every few minutes). This is a freezer designed for storing food, not regularly accessing it. It will frost over quickly if you open and close the door a lot and defrosting it means emptying it and letting the ice melt and cleaning up the water. It doesn't have a drain.

I would have preferred a chest freezer since it would have been less expensive, easier to defrost, and more efficient, but I needed something for a space that wouldn't allow me to have an open top and this Danby does the trick. If you can fit a chest freezer in your...

United States on Sep 06, 2016