I actually have light activated real night lights plugged in - in the bathrooms and kitchen and hall. I don’t have a smart home. I don’t want one. But I must not have many appliances plugged in and sipping current - my electric bill, which includes heating/air conditioning and hot water, is well under $200/ month - cheaper than my Comcast, that’s for sure.
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Mine stops screaming when its done.
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I was thinking about this thread today as I found myself doing an emergency deep-clean of mom’s new fridge. Everything was painful, every step: getting the shelves in and out, which requires removing the adjacent shelves so you can rotate the target shelf rakishly enough to remove it, AND removing some of the door shelves in my case, then getting the glass out of the shelving frame so you can clean it, getting it all back in, worrying you might not be able to re-assemble it correctly … it was a JOURNEY, and none of it was fun. I was thinking about the fridges of my youth with their simple, flat shelves you just pulled straight out. Sigh.
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And as I recall BITD, no glass! Our shelves were were enamel coated metal.
I dutifully clean the fridge once or twice year, when it needs it. I hate the
crappy clear plastic bins’ sliding system with the anemic slots. Ugh.
The slots always break when trying to slide in the bins. Lots of repairing
with glue and reinforcements.
The NEXT fridge will not have glass shelves and wimpy slides. And not Crapsman brand.
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That Kemore is a freak of nature. Thirty years old this May. Besides the freezer being so cold, the warmest fridge setting keeps it at 31-33.
My new one has 33 as lowest setting. I out cups of water at top, middle, bottom, for several hours and they were running right at 34 (top) to 35.5 (IIRC) at the bottom shelf.
My mother has a Montgomery Wards Chest freezer I know I was in my teens when I helped my Dad carry it in. So it has to be over 45 years old. I have no idea how its still running, but it is.
Also, my mother purchased a Maytag dryer when I was born – to dry cloth diapers. I’ll be 60 this year – dryer is still running strong. She doesn’t use it everyday – maybe once a week – but 60 years! That does say a lot for those old Maytag appliances.
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I have digital and analogue thermometers all over my fridge. Yes, a cup of water would work better! I set it at 34, things range from 34.i to 37 or 38, depending on how long I hold the door open. There’s a drawer that keeps things colder on purpose - like for meat - it ranges from 29 to 31 degrees. Good for cooling sodas and wee alcoholic beverages, too. .
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When we were shopping for new dishwashers back in 2021, I made sure to get a model (Bosch, in this case) that had an easily visible timer display. I refuse to connect any of my appliances to an app.
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Sanitize crystal dry eco mode? 
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I probably replied this way already once, but on our old Samsung that was a faulty fan causing that.
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The only moving part is a pump/motor combination. I have a backup one in stock, just waiting for the current one to scream – no more.
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I dunno. The button says “Auto” 
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The house as built in 1999 had GE Profile stuff in the kitchen. We moved here in 2002 and the GE dishwasher sounded like a freight train and did a poor job of washing.
When we remodeled the kitchen we got a well-rated Bosch that sounds like a freight train and does a poor job of washing, and has for us a somewhat awkward rack config… maybe it’s just a lemon.
The next one will be the same Maytag that’s in my in-laws’ house. Whisper quiet, great job cleaning, and great rack.
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That’s what he said. 
(Sorry - I just HAD to go there!)
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I guess I lucked out. My Bosch has been great so far.
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Haha, I guess I left an opening through which a Mack truck could have driven. My intention was great rack system, but I was on my phone and my grandson was thrashing around trying to prematurely wake up, so I had to get done with the phone and get back to some serious rocking chair action.
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Mine has a mechanical dial that returns to OFF position. Oh, and it goes strangely silent.
Two recent appliance deaths in the family. Daughter called to say the old upright deepfreeze (had been her grandparents) was leaking yuck water from the bottom of the door. We managed to recover a significant amount of larger steaks and roasts, and thankfully it wasn’t super fool of expensive food, but a lot ended up in the dumpster.
I cleaned it out and cranked it to full cold, put a plastic tub of water in it and checked the next day - 38°F was as cold as it could get. Compressor seems to run and isn’t labored, so I’m guessing it needs refrigerant. It’s about 23 years old. Unfortunately, I’m licensed to buy and refill low pressure systems (like home HVAC) but not higher pressure stuff like fridge/freezers. So I’ll check around but it may be about as cost effective to buy a new one.
The other (not directed necessarily at you Dan, just so as to not make another post) is the brain board in the KA in-wall oven was spitting out codes that together almost certainly meant the board got a surge during a storm.
Got the new board in for $230 (surprising, sears parts direct was cheaper than appliance clinic) and got it installed. A 20 minute job was closer to 45 because most of the connectors were pretty insistent about staying where they were on the old board (the oven was new in 2015 and that area does get a fair bit of heat). My son in law and I took turns trying to tease them off without breaking any of them but eventually got it done, fired it up, and it’s working fine.
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Minus 38F is damn cold! Or am I misreading it, and that’s a hyphen and THIRTY-EIGHT F?
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