I tried the Jackery FridgeGuard portable power station: Its both functional and pretty

For a short amount of time, a power outage feels nice. It’s an excuse to cancel plans and settle on the couch with a good book (or an e-reader) instead. That calm feeling fades once a low-battery alert shows up on your phone, and it’s never convenient to not have WiFi at home.

But maybe even more inconvenient is the threat of the refrigerator heating up during a power outage.Food spoilage is one of the biggest bummers of a power outage. It’s never fun to start calculating how many hours you’ve been without power and how many times someone has opened the fridge, releasing precious cooling.

Jackery, one of the leaders in portable power stations, has a new solution. I’ve tested dozens of portable power stations, and I’ll admit I find this model to be both functional and one of the best-looking models out there. Jackery FridgeGuard $549.

99 at Costco $799 Save $249.01 Shop Now at Costco Shop Now at Jackery What’s special about the Jackery FridgeGuard?Immediately, you’ll notice the Jackery FridgeGuard does not look like most other portable power stations.

Instead of the standard box shape with a handle, the FridgeGuard is a slim rectangle, measuring just a bit over 2.5 inches tall. The unique shape makes it ideal for sitting on top of the refrigerator.

Jackery also includes two metal feet that attach to the bottom of the power station if you’d rather have it stand up vertically next to the fridge. She's just 2.63 inches thick.

Credit: Lauren Allain But looks aside, the primary goal of the Jackery FridgeGuard is to keep your refrigerator cooling during a power outage. It has 1,024Wh of battery capacity, which Jackery says should keep a standard refrigerator cooling for about 15 hours.When testing the Jackery, I plugged it into my bedside Blueair Blue Signature Air Purifier, and set it on a high fan speed, which pulled 17W.

That power use means the Jackery would keep my bedroom air purifier powered up for about 27 hours. It also looked pretty slick when I used it at my home