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A black top-freezer refrigerator with the lower fresh-food compartment door open, showing two soda bottles on an empty shelf and the brightly lit interior, the exact form factor and second-fridge use case Garage-Ready models are sold for

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The Best Refrigerator for an Unheated Garage in 2026

Every Garage-Ready refrigerator sold in the US bottoms out at 38 degrees Fahrenheit ambient. One bottoms out at 45. Below 32, none of them cool at all. The manufacturers say so themselves, in the support docs nobody reads. The buying decision is simpler than the marketing implies.