No, but my late cat Sam loved the through the door icemaker. He’d hear the rumble and come running. He’d hang off the drip tray like it was a trapeze.
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Mom’s main fridge is shaking off its mortal coil. We are heading to the last of the local appliance shops tomorrow at the crack of 8 AM.
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My clothes washer would not run. It was pretty new. After stewing a bit I unplugged it, counted slowly to ten, and plugged it in. It worked. For current appliances which use chips, rebooting needs to be the first thing you try.
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The modern day version of banging the big-butt TV on the side of the cabinet and adjusting the bunny ear antennas. 
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Ha, I was just going to say, I can’t imagine not having a front load washer. I’m short - just under 5 ft - so having to hop on the washer (my washer and dryer sit up an additional 4-5 inches due to a weird platform this basement has where the laundry hook up is) and pull the laundry at the bottom out. And for heavy wet things, you have to really tug and lift and I can’t even imagine how many things I had to stretch out or almost tear in my younger years battling the old washer.
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Yep. I’ve done it more times than I care to count with both my microwave and my stove. Except I use the circuit breaker, of course 
No, but both Sam and his replacement kitty can open, and do open, doors. I have lever-type handles. They hang off of them and voila - jailbreak.
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Appliances should come with this …
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The 3-fingered key salute!
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Interesting. I didn’t know that there were microwave ovens able to do that.
I wonder how reliable it is over time. What I mean is, will that 50% output drift up, or down, over years of use?
Also I wonder if it’s easier on the magnetron/filament, not to have to be kicking on and off all the time - especially for someone like me who is a frequent user of the reduced “power” settings. Although I heat water, defrost stock, or reheat a thin soup on the full “power” setting, most other times when reheating I’m using 1 (medium rare meats, fish), 2, or 5.
Good questions all. I do not know, and time will tell.
This new one definitely does not make the noises the old ones did, which I attributed to cycling on and off.
Mine I can hear all the way down the hall at the laundry. Kind of a thrumming/thrump sound each time it kicks on.
Good description. I can’t help but think that thumping is harder on the appliance than it constantly running at X%.
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“Three, sire!”
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Haha. But not sure why I never use 3, 4, or 6-9.
That was recommended to me by the person who sold me my Kenmore washer a dozen years ago. She knew the flaws of the machines. Reboot success every time. My repair guru told me how to ‘force a drain cycle’ on the washer and dishwasher. Very handy!
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Oh, I can just imagine it!
Grandkitty somehow figured out how to open a door that ‘someone who will not be named’ didn’t close all the way this weekend. Panic! Mr. Fox has been around lately and all EVAs lately are strictly supervised. She’s luckyvwe were able to scoop her up to safety; she’s barely 7# and very slippery.
my experience has been . . . . 5 decades worth . . . .
if the “repair” is more than 20-25% of the replacement cost . . . trash it, buy a new one.
if the repair involves any kind of ‘sealed system’ - aka refrigeration - that limit is reduced to near zero.
case one, if it failed early / once, the repaired, same design, will fail again, and again, and again . . .
refrigeration units are a very special case. there’s not really any “repair” that will last.
lots of hot air, lots of BS, actuality: repairs fail.
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I once purchased a Whispercool whole-room wine cellar unit, which brand I later learned is notorious for breaking down. I’ve repaired coil leaks twice now.
While you are generally correct, a local AC repair servce has kept this POS on the road and for not a lot of money.
My latest over-the-range microwave oven/hood. Failed 2x under the 1 year warranty. The first failure was 4 months in. When it failed the 3rd time , I replaced it. Unfortunately the new one is basically the same design - but just different enough that they had to destroy what was left of the over the range cabinet in order to hang it.
