Midea MERM33S1ABB 3.3 Cu Ft Mini Fridge Review
Quiet, roomy, and cheap to run — if it survives the delivery truck.
Midea's 3.3 cu ft freezerless mini fridge runs quiet and holds temp well, but buyers report shipping dents and glass shelves that crack under a load.
Bottom Line
If it arrives intact, this is an easy call: quiet, cheap to run, and roomier than mini fridges that give up the top third to a freezer box that never really freezes anything. The risk isn't the design, it's the carton it ships in. Buy it where returns are painless, unbox it the day it lands, and keep heavy loads off the glass shelves.
**The Missing Freezer Is the Best Feature**
Pull the ice box out of a 3.3-cubic-foot cabinet and it stops feeling small. Owners run it as a garage drink fridge, a camper replacement, a bedside cooler, and in one case a cheese cave with an aftermarket controller — all landing on the same two words: cold and quiet. The 42 dB rating tracks with what buyers describe: one keeps it 15 feet from a bed and reports hearing nothing at all. It holds up loaded, too. During a pre-Christmas kitchen fridge failure, one household packed it full, set the dial just past the middle, and measured about 37°F.
**The Carton Is the Weak Link, Not the Fridge**
The damage complaints aren't scattered noise. They're the pattern. Dented top edges, crushed door corners, one unit with the damage hidden under a sticker. A buyer who unboxed theirs minutes before writing blamed thin styrofoam and shelves left loose inside the cabinet. Those shelves are the second problem: one owner stacked nine cans on a single shelf and heard it come apart across the floor.
**Worth It If You Unbox It the Day It Lands**
At $149.37 (as of August 14, 2026) that's a lot of freezerless capacity, and roughly three of four buyers rate it five stars. The other quarter is loud about it. Inspect it the day it arrives, leave a thermometer inside for 24 hours, and keep heavy loads off the glass.
