Cooluli Recalls 250,000 Minifridges After 19 Overheating Reports
Cooluli is recalling about 250,000 10-liter and 15-liter minifridges sold on Amazon and its own site. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the electrical switch can short circuit, and Cooluli has had at least 19 reports of these fridges smoking, sparking, burning, melting, overheating or catching fire — more than $80,000 in property damage and one smoke inhalation injury. Unplug it now. The replacement cord is free.
The recall was announced on August 13, 2026 (CPSC recall number 26685). Cooluli's own notice is more specific about the fault than CPSC's summary: the selector switch that toggles between Cooling and Warming modes can overheat.
Which minifridges are covered
Only the units with an internal power supply — the ones with two power input ports, AC and DC, on the back, rather than a single DC port. A second tell: the removable cord on the recalled units has no "brick" adapter partway along it, the kind a laptop charger has. Cooluli says current refrigerators with an external power supply are not part of this recall.
Then check the batch number, printed on a label inside the door. The recalled ranges are:
- 1535 through 1545
- 1200000 through 1202080
The recall covers the 10-liter and 15-liter Infinity, Classic, Glow Beauty and Vibe Series, in black, blue, green, white and red, and in multicolored patterns, photos and logos. "Cooluli" is printed on the front. They sold online at Amazon.com and Cooluli.com from January 2019 through October 2024 for between $80 and $120, and were made by Ningbo Iceberg Electronic Appliance Co., Ltd. of China for Lisse USA LLC of Brooklyn, New York.
Lisse USA is the importer CPSC names, but it is not who you will be dealing with: Cooluli's notice says MM Products has since taken over the brand from Lisse USA, and that reviewing the older range is what turned the fault up.
What to do
- Unplug it and stop using it. Cooluli's instruction is to stop using the fridge until the repair is complete — not to keep it running while the kit is in the mail.
- Check the model and batch number before you touch anything. Go to
cooluli.com/pages/product-notices-recallsand enter them. Cooluli's questions line is 718-834-5312, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET, Monday to Friday. - Then cut the cord. If your unit is covered, the process is: unplug, cut the power cord, and send Cooluli photos showing the model and batch numbers. That step is irreversible, which is exactly why you check the batch number first.
- Cooluli sends a free kit — a replacement DC power cord, plus a permanent sticker to cover the AC port. You pay nothing.
Why we are running this
We do not rate Cooluli, and nothing on this site scores it. We are running it because of the price tag.
Our repair-or-replace guide runs on the 50% rule: replace an appliance only when it is past half its expected life and the repair quote is more than half what a new one costs. On an $80 to $120 minifridge the second half of that test is met by almost any callout — the quote clears half the replacement cost before a technician has finished walking to the door — and that is the instinct a reader will bring to this. The rule does not reach this case at all, because there is no quote. The remedy costs nothing, and the alternative to spending ten minutes on a web form is leaving a known fire risk plugged in beside a bed, in a dorm room, under an office desk or in a bathroom, which is where a 10-liter fridge lives. The cheapness of the thing is the reason people will not bother, and the reason we are writing it up.
The same goes for a home warranty. None of the plans on our comparison page are relevant to a countertop minifridge, and this is not a claim to open or a service-call fee to spend. It is a free cord from Cooluli.
This is also the second refrigerator fire recall in two weeks, after Galanz's 121,680 retro fridges, recalled on July 30. The two have nothing to do with each other — different companies, different fault, different scale — but they land the same way for a reader: the appliance most likely to be quietly dangerous in your house is the one you paid least attention to.