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A lot of those features are available in today's fridges. Also, they use less power today. And you really don't have to get one with wifi and a touchscreen.
by rascul 3y ago
A lot of those features are available in today's fridges. Also, they use less power today. And you really don't have to get one with wifi and a touchscreen.
- faitswulff 3y agoI just really want that vegetable box. Any recommendations?
- nimajneb 3y agoYou could get a clear plastic shallow bin with relevant dimensions to fit on a shelf in your fridge. Then you can take it out and put it back as needed. I just use the vegetable drawer in my fridge though.
- jxramos 3y agoOXO Good Grips GreenSaver Produce Keeper is a pretty good lil product.
- bombcar 3y agoThe vegetable box on mine makes things last a long time with a filter for ethylene gas, perhaps something like these could help: https://www.amazon.com/ethylene-gas-absorber-fridge/ https://www.amazon.com/ethylene-gas-absorber-fridge/
- ImHereToVote 3y agoAll of those features you say?
- Tagbert 3y agoMy fridge has equivalent to most of those features. It doesn’t have an ice ejector but it does make its own ice. the only feature mine doesn’t have is the box for chopped vegetables. I don’t think I would use that anyway.
- passwordoops 3y agoYeah but I'd bet the one we see in the video is probably still working, while I'm on my third fridge in 20 years. I think that negates any energy efficiency gains
- photonerd 3y agoI’ve had 8 fridges in 22 years, up until my latest I’ve they were all from this supposedly better age. All failed, in some cases disastrously. The only one that’s survived longer than a few years for me? The new one. Going 6 years strong. Not everything on my new one is perfect—I managed to break the built in water jug—but I feel a lot of the replies here need to take into account survivorship bias.
- marricks 3y agoWhat do you do to your fridges??? I'm in my 30's and have never had to replace a fridge. Never had a "modern" fridge except as a kid. All looked like low budget fridges from the 80's or 90's.
- taeric 3y agoQuality of power supply to your house will almost certainly be one of the bigger factors in how long things last. Combined with standard stochastic behavior, I'd expect anecdotes of both kinds.
- jwells89 3y agoI suspect that a great many problems with electronics, lifespan related and otherwise, are rooted in power quality issues. The newer apartments and house I’ve lived in as an adult have been decent in that regard, probably because they’re closer to being up to spec electrically and have newer lines running to them thanks to being in urban areas, but one of my childhood homes out in the countryside which is now approaching a century in age had a “habit” of killing computers every so often.
- bayindirh 3y agoYes, my top of the line Siemens fridge has one pull out drawer for breakfast stuff, and it just comes out half-way. And, it's labeled as a premium, major new feature.
- rwultsch 3y agoI am getting a Sub-zero in a few weeks which is damn near the most expensive fridge. It does not have nice pull out shelves or the veggie compartments. I expect the sealing and ethylene scrubbing will keep veggies fresh linger.
- distances 3y agoWhy does everyone keep their veggies in the fridge, do you buy them in bulk? Basic veggies like onions, tomatoes, cucumber I eat fast enough to just keep on shelves and in regular rotation, and all more special plants are anyway bought for a certain meal in mind so they're used within a day or two. My fridge does have a veggie section but I use that for beer.
- mbg721 3y agoTo keep the bugs off of them. I know in theory you're supposed to keep tomatoes out, but they attract fruit flies.
- distances 3y agoSomehow doesn't happen to my tomatoes. Maybe the organic trash bin is just a juicier target for my flies.
- LorenPechtel 3y agoThat assumes you go shopping every couple of days.
- rsynnott 3y agoYeah, I think both the "why would anyone put vegetables in a fridge" stance and the "how could anyone not put vegetables in a fridge" stance are probably mostly based on lifestyle factors. I walk past two supermarkets plus a greengrocers on my way home from work, so I don't think I've ever put a vegetable in my fridge. But I know people who live in rural areas and go to a supermarket once a week or less frequently.
- masklinn 3y agoA lot of those features also seem quite debatable. - The big pile of fruits and veggies is a good way to pressure-bruise them, and also to trap ethylene, and you can usually get the crisper drawers out so not sure I see the difference. - Special compartments for butter and cheese are a completely unnecessary lack of flexibility. - Metal roll-out trays / drawers exist in high-end fridges, there are also drawer fridges and freezers for some use cases (mostly compact kitchens / appartments where you don't have the space for swing doors). - The ice cube thing seems like a complete mis-feature, there are 4 ice cube trays integrated which seems fine, why would you move those to a bucket of ice cubes losing 1/3rd the freezer space and congealing the cubes together? If you regularly need industrial quantities of ice cubes, getting a quarter-size (100L) chest freezer seems like a better idea. Or an upright if you have a lot of frozen stuff which you need regular access to (or you don't have a cellar to put a half or full-size chest in).
- wil421 3y agoMy fridge came with a 3rd drawer in the middle for veggies or fruit. It has pouches that absorb ethylene gas and works very well. You have to replace them every few months but they aren’t too expensive on Amazon. You can buy a plastic stick on piece and install it in on an older fridge. The drawer is in the middle above the freezer in a French style fridge. You can set the temp to things like fruit, meat, or cheese but we prefer a dedicated produce area.
- Broken_Hippo 3y ago* why would you move those to a bucket of ice cubes losing 1/3rd the freezer space and congealing the cubes together? * I use a portion of my freezer space for ice cubes. I make a batch of ice in the ice machine, and then freeze it until it gets low and/or used. My fridge doesn't have an ice machine and this uses less freezer space than ice cube trays. I use the ice to make delicious alcoholic drinks, and would happily make more ice than I ever though I'd need just to avoid having to make it when inconvenient.
- masklinn 3y agoSure but 1. that's your choice and you have the flexibility to do that 2. you don't have 4 ice cube trays as a fixed feature of the freezer plus a separate ice bucket, half the space of which is a quick release system for the cubes from the trays
- Meph504 3y agothis is true but the build quality of the appliances today are unquestionably worse, I as a side job in my youth did a lot of appliance maint/repair. And now working on my modern high end appliances it just makes me sad. plastic gearing, metal housing with so little ferrous metal magnets have trouble sticking to them. compressors made of such thin material its a wonder they ever survive the pressure they are under for 10 years. Washing machines whose outer clading is the only thing that holds it together, so they strongly flex as they run, wearing the barrings and belts out. the water sensing tech that is required by law is built with so many easy to fail parts that it probably has caused more waste than has ever saved water.