The Maytag MSS20FSSI3 fridge freezer brings American storage capacities in line with European style.

Maytag are pretty well known for their American style fridge freezers. Indeed, Maytag fridge freezers are as often as not the first proof we Brits get that not everything American has to be big and clunky. The Maytag MSS20FSSI3 is big, yes – but it is also stylish, efficient and modern.

It is also big: just over 177cm high, 91 odd centimetres wide and 74 and a half centimetres deep, including the shut door. There’s no point in buying this fridge freezer if you don’t have the space to show it off properly: that would be like buying a hummer and trying to park it in a city side street. If you do have the space, the Maytag MSS20FSSI3 fridge freezer offers you enough storage and convenience options to keep your family happy for years.

Let’s start with the looks. The MSS20FSSI3, like all modern Maytag fridge freezers, is clad in rather swish looking brushed stainless steel, which has been treated to render it resistant to fingerprints. The result is a fine looking fridge freezer that remains as good looking after six months as it did the day you peeled all that protective shrink wrap off the outside of it.

In addition to the wipe clean doors you get a smart little LCD display over the obligatory American style water dispenser. The water dispenser on the Maytag MSS20FSSI3 fridge freezer also dispenses ice. All functions for the water and ice dispenser are controlled by the LCD panel.

Inside, the storage capacity (as you’d expect from Maytag fridge freezers) is huge. Users are treated to not one, but two crisper compartments – both of which are humidity controlled. The lower of the crisper compartments can be set to maintain a humidity controlled temperature of exactly zero degrees – allowing you to store meat and fish without fear of spoiling.

The Maytag MSS20FSSI3 fridge freezer gives you a further four shelves in the body of the fridge, plus four door fitted balconies, a dairy compartment and an egg tray. The freezer gives you three door balconies and is also fitted with two very large interior drawers.

As you would expect from any new Maytag fridge freezers, you get a solid A plus energy rating with this one: despite its consumption of 438 kilowatt hours. That sounds large, but as giant fridge freezers go it is actually pretty good.

Figures: the net storage area of the freezer comes in at a very respectable 180 litres; while the fridge offers a cavernous 325 litres. With an overall gross volume of 540 litres, the Maytag MSS20FSSI3 fridge freezer offers genuine Yankee style storage capacities in a sleek looking package that will look right at home in any larger kitchen.

This latest offering from Maytag fridge freezers is equipped with the usual warning functions to help you ensure that your chilled and frozen food is always kept at the right temperature. You’ll get a warning light if the temperature drops or rises outside of a preset range: and the actual temperature of all parts of the fridge and freezer are displayed on a readout. Ideal.