HOT AND COLD MODE: This Cristal mini fridge has enough space to hold of your snacks and treats at once. Despite its small size, it boasts an impressively large capacity of 43 litres and comes with an ice box, bottle rack and a removable wire space, allowing you to customise the fridge to suit your needs. Most mini fridges (minus those with USB) have a classic electrical cord, so yes you do just plug in a mini fridge to get it going. The all-black design is billed as a drinks chiller, and as far as we can discern, that means it has a glass instead of an opaque door.

uk/browse/appliances/fridges-and-freezers/mini-fridges/c:29167/fridge-capacity-(l):up-to-49/" on this server.In fact, it can be used for storing anything, from your personal supply of Tony’s Chocolonely to that posh vintage cheddar you don’t want anyone else getting their paws on. This mini fridge from homeware experts Russell Hobbs is the type you'll find in many hotel bedrooms. If you're after a simple small fridge then the Russell Hobbs Table Top Mini Cooler from Robert Dyas should be on your radar. The wine chiller also an anti-vibration system to ensure that it runs quietly, a humidity control function to stop water condensing on the bottles, an internal light and even a door alarm that sounds if you forget to close the door.

It’s specially designed for drinks rather than food – you can chill six cans to five degrees celsius. It’s easy to move around to wherever you’re likely to want to crack open a cold drink or tuck into a chilled snack. And it looks a bit like a hotel mini-bar, so it’s ideal if you want to keep something stronger than lemonade in there too! It pays to keep up with the trends; Russell Hobbs has well and truly jumped on the beauty fridge bandwagon by labelling this 25. If you think you might need extra features like an ice box, it’s worth exploring mini fridges at the larger end of the scale.Husky’s stout-branded fridge makes a perfect present for fans of the black stuff and it can hold 48 litres - that’s around 40 cans. Depending on how highly you rate the pleasures of a well-chilled drink, a mini fridge could be the latter. The interior light turns on and off as you open and close this little fridge, and it even sounds off an alarm if you leave it open (no more warm white wine, hallelujah).

Available in five colours including sleek black, it would make a great present for a teenager or student heading off to uni. If you're looking for one to suit a small kitchen then you might want to opt for a 60cm design, whereas much smaller designs work well for bedrooms and out-houses. It comes with a 12v adapter so it’s a portable option to keep drinks cold at picnics and on camping trips. But they can also be a smart solution for smaller kitchens, or for people who simply don't need a large, energy-hungry refrigerator. The colourful pink and blue options have been recommended as gifts for kids on the Mumsnet forums and parents love the fact that they’re nice and quiet (the motor runs as low as 28 decibels).However, it’s only recently that mini fridges have been developed especially for this purpose, with Instagram leading the charge in bringing them to the mainstream, and to dressing tables everywhere.