Cooluli 20 Liter Mini Fridge with Temperature Control – Black

Modified for a cheese cave
I make vegan artisanal cheeses and live in a city apartment so the 20L Cooluli cooler fit the size and look of the only space I had for a dedicated cheese grotto. I haven’t ever seen anyone convert a thermoelectric cooler (rather than a refrigerator) to a cheese cave before, so I went into this knowing it’s a DIY modification. And I’m delighted so far!First of all, the temperature holds fantastically. I need my cheeses aged for a few months between 50-60 degrees. I set the electronic thermostat to 55 and it’s holds between 53-55, depending on how often I open that little front door. It’s a small space, so opening the door will affect the temp a degree or so pretty quickly.The thermostat is easy to use – LOVE simple computers! I can hear when it’s actively cooling by the sound of the external fan and it rarely has to work – so: far more energy efficient than a refrigerator with a compressor. The external fan’s sound is what I consider quiet. I have the set up in our solarium – not my bedroom:)When my young cheeses are shelved, the internal humidity goes up to 90% and I need it between 70-85% for long term aging, so I found a desiccant used for safes in the electronics section at London Drugs for $15. Brings the humidity right down to 80% which is ideal for this purpose. As the cheeses age, the humidity lowers a bit more. Before I found the desiccant, I just collected those tiny desiccant pouches from supplement bottles, food bags and protein powder containers and those also work well – if you have enough of them! Those can’t be reactivated in the oven though. The former can.Because there is no internal fan in a thermoelectric cooler, I do wipe the floor and walls with a cloth twice a day to collect condensation. Again, this is necessary to control the humidity.For air flow, I currently just rely on opening that little door two times / day when I affinage the cheese and wipe the humidity. So far so good. The cheeses are aging nicely. If I want more air flow in the future, I would simply drill all the way through the wall next to where the door hinges are because there are no electrical components there and it’s just plastic. I doubt I’ll need to do more than that (like install a small fan) because cheeses don’t want too much air flow – just enough to breathe.You can see for this purpose, I added a third ventilated shelf by drill-cutting holes in a plastic cutting board and using sticky electric cord clips (used in offices to try to keep your cords organized) down the side. Perfection.Plus the cherry on top is this little 20L unit’s design is retro, attractive and matches my other solarium decor. Would recommend!

Decent but not worth the price.
I bought this on delivery because the bigger, cheaper mini fridges were too heavy for me to carry from the parcel locker to my apt. Therefore I opted to buy this fancier, albeit smaller, unit because it had adjustable temperature control, the option to keep food cold or warm, use it in a vehicle for travel or camping. It had a lot to offer for the price tag it carries. Or so I thought.When it arrived, they brought it straight to my door, I was thrilled. Packaging was well done. Came with the cables for using it in the car/camping/room.I set it up, it’s been two days since I’ve had it and it won’t go any colder than 37 degrees F on norm no matter what I set the temperature for. My room is cool/cold depending on the time of day because I live in Texas. The heat is triple digits during the summer, but my room is lovely.When I set up my drinks, I moved them from the full size refrigerator to my room where this is being kept, just for convenience. So they were already cold.The top shelf that it came with was very flimsy and bows easily. I put three can sodas on it and it collapses. Reached out to the manufacturer, June 6, 2022, followed their ridiculous need to supply them with extra information: batch number, purchase order number, a video uploaded to streamable.com like they wanted and emailed them all this information included the link to the video and they haven’t responded. Their chat support is useless and utilizes Zendesk; they disabled the ability to send them attachments to make it easier for the customer to demonstrate their issue.I contacted them the day I got it and set it up. No response to my email despite them saying they would.I had previously filled out the limited warranty information that included all the information they requested. Having to use their website to communicate the issue, you’d think with my account signed in, all of that would be there when I referenced the unit I purchased, but no.So I DEDUCTED a star rating on this mini fridge for the fact the top shelf is flimsy and all I asked for was a replacement shelf; the display is supposed to turn off after two minutes of inactivity, but instead it remains on full brightness even days later. Despite the unit being quiet and not exuding too much heat, it did not come with a protective plastic over the door panel, which allowed it to be scuffed up while it was being packaged. Unit has magnetic doors, which removable door shelves. It can fit a good number of cans in it. But pricewise, this isn’t a good investment.Stick to the known brands offering mini fridges/small fridges for $99 over this.Final Update: Jun 16, 2022 — after spending 10 days going back and forth with Customer Service, having them refute my issues with the unit and declaring if I was going to keep it, then the best they can do was offer a 20% discount, I took it to avoid having to find a way to ship this unit back to them and pay for shipping twice.I paid $162.36 after tax and shipping to get this unit. I would have been better off buying local and somehow wrangling it home.Due to this experience, I’ve dropped the rating to one star because customer service, insurance availability, following through with Limited Warranty fulfillment, and the entire experience has turned me off from this company.I will not buy another of their products again. Extra insult to this entire fiasco, they refused to let me update this review with the video, taking it down. I had to find the original video in my deleted files, recover, and repeatedly attempt to add it to this review with an update of the entire process to date.TL:DR ISSUES?Display doesn’t turn off after a few minutes as their manual states it will.CS says “There’s actually no option to manually turn off the LCD display of the unit” in the same passage that says “What happens was the unit that you have received maybe one of the batches of the unit that has the display that won’t go off after a couple of minutes of inactivity”.Read that sentence and read the above. I copied them word for word from their customer service email. They do not address the fact this unit will not cool below 37 degrees F even in a super cold room.They will not address the flimsy shelf.Best they could do was 20% and 10 days of ignoring me, blameshifting, and finally that “appeasement” credit back to my payment method.Last Update June 16, 2022.

Good product

Fantastic for sourdough

The Cooluli 20 litre mini fridge stopped working 17 months after purchase. Am waiting to hear from Cooluli customer support to see if they will stand behind their product.Heard back from Cooluli…they do not honour their warranty for their mini fridges purchased outside of USA…ie their fridges purchased in Canada!!!!!