I make up a bunch of ice in my countertop ice maker, put them in a large gladware container and into the chest freezer.
Sunshine can take what she wants and when it gets low – I make up some more ice (nibs) and re-stock the gladware container.
It’s a system that (mostly) works for us.
This just happened with our Bosch dishwasher, which we’ve had for about a month. Didn’t get an error message, but all the lights on the LED display lit up, and turning off and then trying to start again didn’t work.
I told older adult male to follow my rule for appliances: shut it all down. go merrily about your way, don’t “let the machine know you are stressed so stay calm,” nonchalantly go back in about half an hour, try again, and it is usually somehow recovered.
Well, my rule for appliances was developed before 2000. Older adult male looked at manual, read suggestion to turn off the breaker for the dishwasher for 5 minutes. It worked.
Rebooting these days apparently involves turning off the breaker, not just turning off machine. Good to know!
Yes. Remove the source of electrical current.
Rule Number One for breaker boxes (from a friend electrician): Do exactly what you did and Never, Never, Never trust the labeling on a breaker box. (Of course, you weren’t going to get shocked by your fridge, but still)
I had an electrician in my in-laws old house recently, and his method was to short the item he was to be working on and see which breaker tripped. [Edit - even despite the fact that the breaker box was labeled with his company’s emblem, he wasn’t going to trust it.]
On your larger issue, I’ve found that I need to breaker-off my stove-oven more and more frequently. It’s about 12 years old now and often gets “stuck”. Sometimes the oven won’t respond to anything other than oven light on/off (gas rangetop is always responsive). Sometimes it’s just that I can’t get the oven temp calibration menu to open for me.
Do you find that in a chest freezer that you get no ice agglomeration? I would think the lower temp would help to prevent that. In my regular (newer) fridge/freezer, the ice box routinely has the bottom half of the ice bin being an impenetrable stuck together mass. It only gets down to about -4°F.
My old Kenmore fridge/freezer (1995 build, now in basement) gets down to -25F, and I never had problems with ice damming up in that one.
My breaker box is not correctly labeled - a breaker went bad, so the electrician who repaired it just moved everything down one slot and sharpies some arrows on the label. Visual confirmation works for me, because the pencil label is faded anyway. I can recognize the 240s by their size.
I have to “burp”/reset my stove occasionally too.
Wow. My fridge freezer’s lowest setting is -8. I keep it at -2, because I’m afraid it’ll break if I set it lower. The fridge temp is set to 34. Fridge thermometer tells me that’s aspirational. 35 .5 is what I see.
I’m so happy that I have to worry about fridges in my golden years. Never ever had a problem with any fridge until after 2004.
The older and younger adult males in my house are in the middle of a project of testing the breaker box and relabeling after checking it thrice.
We tend to forget that flicking something off does not affect the vampire circuitry, and that stuff often has a battery, just in case.
We at my house are adjusting to vampire circuitry, which we never wanted, knowing how often it fails, but were forced to buy.
It is maddening. Now every room with most anything electronic has a “night light.”:
Sometimes a few “nibs” get stuck together, I quick “wack” on the counter top and they fall apart. I’m really surprised how resilient gladware actually is!!
Thanks for the reminder, I should check the temperature of the chest freezer.
Our old dishwasher had a visible light blue light that could be seen without opening the d/w that indicated cycle was finished and dishes were clean and dry. New Bosch dishwasher…red night light comes on at bottom glowing on to the floor when the cycle is in progress. Nothing to indicate when cycle is finished…except that we had to put an app on our phones that tells us when the cycle is done.
Very annoying. I don’t want to have to look at my phone to know when the d/w is finished.
Mime beeps a bunch. Yours doesn’t?
My Bosch beeps too, and the red light goes out. Not that I ever get on emptying it right away…
Might beep a lot, but I wouldn’t know since I’m not in the kitchen mostly and my hearing isn’t great. We signed up for the the app and we get a “notification” with a beep on our phones when it’s finished.
We don’t have pets and I do wonder how pets react to the red light when it’s nearly installed…
My Bosch used to shoot a small fireworks display and play Pomp and Circumstance, but we updated the app and now it launches a drone show and plays Uptown Funk. Kidding. Red light goes off, and a subtle dinging occurs.
Parker noticed the red light at first when it was installed, but he ignores it now. I hear the beeping if I am paying attention and there is no other active noise in the house. But, mostly I know that the cycle I use most takes 2 hours and 39 minutes. So, that’s how I am more likely to check on it.
We used the 1 hour “entertaining” cycle on our old one that started to leak. I just don’t know when another family member starts it at 6:00 am when I’m still asleep. We are adjusting to the learning curve of much longer cycle and no blue light…and, that it really doesn’t matter, b/c if red light isn’t on, it’s either not clean or finished.
I’m guessing Parker quickly learned to ignore the red light because not relevant to Parker’s interests…and it doesn’t move around, it’s steady light!
Yes. Parker cares more about his actual toys, although I know if he wants me to use the laser pointer because he will hide in the curtains in the living room (“The red dot will never find me here!”).
Since I’m usually the one running the dishwasher, I know when it should be done. It’s just a matter of whether I want to actually empty it then.
