The Best Mini Fridges for Drinks, Snacks and Skincare—They're Not Just for Dorm Rooms Anymore

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Hey friends, mini fridges aren’t just for dorm rooms. If you love entertaining, backyard summer fun, or sipping iced tea in your home office, these compact fridges are for you. These pint-sized appliances work wonderfully to chill our favorite treats and beverages, from offices to bedrooms to summer homes to, yes, dorms. To help you on this fridge-focused endeavor, we've scoured the market to bring you the best in mini fridges from retailers such as Amazon and Walmart. They all are built with space-saving design in mind and feature stellar tech and cooling capabilities. Keep reading for the best mini fridges to keep things fresh and refreshing, no matter the setting. P.S. For more cool fridge content, check out the best refrigerators for your home and our go-to bottom-freezer refrigerators that are both sleek and spacious.

Best Mini Fridges

• Best Overall: Upstreman 3.2 Cu.Ft Mini Fridge with Freezer

• Most Multifunctional: FRIGIDAIRE Portable 10L Mini Fridge

• Most Compact: RCA RMIS129-YELLOW Mini Fridge

• Energy Efficient: BLACK+DECKER Compact Refrigerator

• Best for Cosmetics: Cooluli Mini Fridge

What to Consider

When looking for an additional cooling solution for your home, keep these guidelines top of mind.

Numero uno: Think about the ideal dimensions for your purchase. If you’re buying a mini fridge, space is likely a key factor and you want to ensure it fits comfortably in whatever nook, bar alcove, or porch on which you plan placing it. Cooling performance is also something you want to evaluate. Ideally, your mini fridge will keep things reliably cool and have stable temperature control.

Noise is often overlooked, but matters. You don’t want your mini fridge rumbling all day long, especially if you’re living in a small space or keeping this appliance in a home office where maintaining a quiet atmosphere is important. In addition to a visually attractive exterior design, you may also want to buy a mini fridge with a smartly designed interior. We love adjustable shelves and a small freezer compartment may come in handy for some. Last but not least, go green, y’all. If you can find a mini fridge that’s Energy Star you can look forward to saving on electricity costs and minimizing your environmental impact.

How We Selected

To make this marvelous list of mini fridges, we meticulously researched the market, and considered each fridge for specs ranging from cooling performance and energy efficiency to design versatility and customer feedback. Speaking of customer feedback, beyond overall star ratings, we read countless customer reviews to zoom in on the best of the bunch. Our team also liaised with PR representatives to get a lay of the compact fridge land to make sure we had all the details on new releases with plenty of bells and whistles (though whisper-quiet!).

Upstreman 3.2 Cu.Ft Mini Fridge with Freezer

If you love staying organized, this fridge is for you. If you struggle with staying organized, and want a fridge that magically does the grunt work for you thanks to a smart layout with shelves, a producer drawer, and a can holder rack, this is also for you. Complete with a freezer, two removable shelves, an ice tray, and a defrost tool, this very quiet, energy efficient mini fridge has plenty of room to keep all your drinks and food in the office, dorm, RV, or whatever floats your boat spaces.

Another thing we love about this mini fridge with an average Amazon rating of 4.5 stars is that the cooler’s temperature is adjustable from 33.8° F to 46.4° F, so you can set the temp to best suit your personal beverage chilling bliss levels.

FRIGIDAIRE Portable 10L Mini Fridge

Hello, gorgeous design. Ahem, gorgeous, super quiet design courtesy of this Frigidaire’s thermoelectric cooling system, which means there’s no noisy compressor. What’s more, we love the wide variety of uses for this mini fridge, with Amazon customers saying they’ve used it to store everything from breast milk to makeup.

Ideal for small spaces like office cubicles or dens where you hang on game days (and walking to the kitchen for a six-pack or seltzer seems like too much capital “E” effort). We also swoon for the fact that this model is super lightweight for easy, breezy portability. Now which of the stylish finishes should we opt for, friends?

RCA RMIS129-YELLOW Mini Fridge

Enter vintage-cool territory with this RCA mini-fridge that comes in a range of colors to fit various aesthetic preferences. Thanks to adjustable shelves you can arrange the space to best fit your snacking and imbibing needs. Plus, this mini fridge has nearly 3,000 five-star ratings on Amazon, with customer reviews praising the tiny appliance for its “great quality” and “just too cute.” Did we mention it’s very quiet and has a portable inset handle to lug it around? Worth noting: This fridge stores up to six 12-ounce beverage cans, so yes, it’s quite small but if you’re using this for, say, a home office or while traveling, that may be plenty of room.

BLACK+DECKER Compact Refrigerator

You can never go wrong with a BLACK+DECKER appliance, and we swear by its sleek mini fridge. It's aesthetically pleasing enough not to distract from the room it's in, and the price point is pretty unbeatable for the size and quality.

It has two full-width glass shelves inside, plus a full-width freezer compartment with an ice cube tray. It's also Energy Star-certified, so it won't suck up too much power and cause your bill to spike.

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Cooluli Mini Fridge

This 4-liter mini fridge from Cooluli is super popular among reviewers who love to keep their eye cream, skincare, and other cosmetics at a specific temperature. This lightweight fridge only weighs around 4 pounds, making it a nice option to stow in a corner of your bedroom or dorm room.

Midea Stainless Steel Compact Refrigerator

Sometimes the simplest option can be the best one. This plain-Jane mini fridge doesn't have a flashy exterior, but the inside has everything you could possibly need (and it also comes in black and white). It's equipped with fruit and vegetable drawers, a sizable and separate freezer, and shelving that can be moved around.

This unit is great for studio apartments, offices, and basements, and it even has reversible doors in case you need to move it around.

Ivation Thermoelectric Wine Fridge

With its precise temperature control, helpful interior lighting, and 12-bottle capacity, this minimalistic wine fridge is perfect for the home or office. Whether you're storing wines for upcoming parties or long-term collection purposes, this mini fridge is an essential for any true wino.

Cooluli Infinity Compact Mini Fridge

If the Cooluli 4-liter option we recommended earlier in this list doesn't quite cut it for your storage needs, upgrade to this larger and more versatile 15-liter pick. We love the storage baskets attached to the door, as well as the dual racks in the fridge body, which can all be moved around to fit your storage needs.

FRIGIDAIRE Mini Refrigerator

If you have to stack the fridge on top of your Ikea shelves to make do with a small space, this countertop option will definitely do the trick. It's small enough to stack with ease, and it can even bear the weight of a coffee maker or another appliance on top of it.

Inside you'll find two levels for food and a small freezer alcove for ice cubes or frozen meals.

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