No, I already have a dog that is smarter than me. If I get a smart appliance I’ll be the dumbest one in the household.
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I was thinking the words vintage and Zojirushi shouldn’t even go together, but I looked it up, and they’ve been making stuff since 1918!
Is it a pour over? I think I would like to try that kind of simplicity, but I also like having my Moccamaster pour over at exactly the right temperature and the right rate.
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Cats are smarter like that, too, and they have brains the size of walnuts. We work; they don’t. I rest my case.
To got a programmable thermostat years ago but the pandemic kept me home and working remotely, so what good was it. Verizon got rid of our copper POTS phones, you know, the one that would work during a power outage. The ones that were good in an emergency. It’s not just the inadvertent- or voluntary- sharing of information about me and my habits or the security issues of the Internet of Things - what actual uses am I going to get out of these brave new appliances? 90 percent of the functionality always exists in 10 percent of the features.
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I do have the nest thermostat, but in San Francisco you don’t really need it. I just use it to turn the heat off when I’m in bed when my teenager turns it on in the hallway. The funny thing is it created a smart schedule so was turning on a certain temperature twice a day, but I didn’t even realize it had set a schedule. When I was on vacation I decided to look at it and saw it was putting the heat on while I was out of town - I guess it’s only as smart as the person using it. I cleared the “smart” schedule.
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My heat pump and my water heater both have apps.
Both have alerted me when the power was out and when there was a problem with the a/c…and allowed me to get a service guy out before it got out of hand.
All of this happened while I was out of town, so while it was tedious to manage it from afar, far better than having it be not running for days.
My electric company sends me a notification when rhe power is out, too.
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No, it’s a 10C drip/basket machine. I haven’t tested the water temperature yet, but Z claims it’s 200F. It’s also supposed to have a bloom feature before the main run of water. This makes sense, as the brew takes between 10-15 minutes.
This Z was a thrift store purchase at $20. The MSRP when before discontinuance was $179, or half the price of a carafe Moccamaster.
The price was so low, I bit even though our 2 Uber cheap 12C drip makers work fine. Based on my first use, the Z makes better coffee. One thing I like is that the water reservoir comes off for refilling from the tap, so I don’t sleepily use the cheap maker’s unrinsed pot to refill.
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Sounds great! is it the source that makes it “vintage”?
Used.
No longer made.
Manual.
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Yet another example of features suddenly becoming something you gave to pay more for–every month: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/18/snoo-bassinet-subscriptions/
So even if your appliance still works, you have to pay agàin for features you thought you bought the time.
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I’m afraid to jinx us, but ours is 7, almost 8 years old, and going strong. It’s even a Samsung!
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Wake me up when it’s 25 years old 
My washer and dryer in my last house were manufactured in the late 80s!
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Yes to this.
Subscription-only services and harvesting consumer data are the reasons we don’t want smart appliances in our home. It’s a reasonable expectation that we pay for our appliances to serve us, not their manufacturers.
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Can you post the recipe?
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Love it! Simple, chip free appliances (and other mechanical things) are generally easy to maintain and repair and are built to last. My espresso maker is from the '60s and the Hobart mixer is from the '70s. My toaster with an analogue timer and my old metal plate waffle iron ('50s) are super simple and going strong. Oh how I wish my old Chambers stove could have come with us when we moved. I also wish I had hung onto the car I had in the early '70s. I am confident the stove and the car are still fine. I must concede someone else maintains my two winding watches and ships bells winding clock. The few major appliances I have all contain chips. The stove, refrigerator, D/W, washer, dryer, and microwave have all had chip/motherboard issues and several had gotten to the point where it was just not cost effective to keep repairing them. As I plan for any more needed replacements, I am researching products that are chip free. I note that there are more chip free stoves, and the prices are coming down.
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It’s a family secret, sorry.
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I miss my similarly ancient Viking that I had to leave in my last house. It too dated to at least the 1980s. I did have to get a new thermostat and oven burner for it when I moved into that house, but damn that thing was a champion. I would have picked it up and moved it except the kitchen I moved into only had space for a 30” stove, and it was 33”. Sigh.
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heh, heh, heh, Presidents Analyst . https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062153/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1
I saw that when it was first released. 
I have a 15 year old programmable thermostat which I just leave on one temp. Between the pandemic and not driving to work anymore, why bother?
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We have one of those type. I do it so our mostly vacant upstairs is not fully heated or air conditioned during the day, and vice versa for bedtime. Our HVAC person said you don’t want the temperatures to be too widely varying or it kind of defeats the purpose as the system tries to recover.
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