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GE's smallest bottom-freezer fridge is built for tiny kitchens

If you need a fridge that'll fit into tight spaces, then consider this baby bottom freezer from GE.

Ry Crist
Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure connoisseur, a lover of terrible movies and an enthusiastic yet mediocre cook. A CNET editor since 2013, Ry's beats include smart home tech, lighting, appliances, broadband and home networking.
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Short on kitchen space? This bottom freezer fridge from GE is designed to fit into tight spots. Click through to learn more about it.

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Capacity

With bottom freezers, your fresh ingredients are up top. In this fridge, you get 7.3 cubic feet of fresh food storage space.

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Freezer down below

There's another 3.2 cubic feet down in the freezer, bringing you total to 10.5 cubic feet. That's about average for compact-sized models like this one.

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Temp controls

You'll control the temperature with these controls up here.

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Freezer controls

The freezer controls are in the fridge, too, tucked away in the back.

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Crisper bin

The refrigerator offers a single crisper bin -- it's actually the coldest spot in the fridge.

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Humidity controls

You can control the humidity in that bin using this slider.

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Room for groceries

Despite the small size, we were very nearly able to fit our entire, full-sized load of test groceries into the fridge (albeit in cramped fashion).

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Default setting

Temperatures were colder towards the bottom of the fridge, which makes sense since the freezer is down at the very bottom. The top shelves all ran a bit warm.

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Coldest setting

Temperatures fell a bit at the coldest setting, but not by much.

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Price

The GE GBE10ESJSB compact bottom freezer fridge sells for $900, though you can probably find it for closer to $800 if you shop around. Read our full review to see if we think it's worth it.

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