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[-] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 55 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

As I've heard it:

  • Bosch makes the best dishwashers
  • Speed Queen makes the best laundry machines
  • Asko ~~and Miele~~ make the best stoves and fridges

And yes, they are all very expensive. But I want to get me a Speed Queen so bad.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

~~Miele was sold to a private equity firm and they've been reputation-fracking, so their recent stuff is supposed to be pretty mediocre but priced as if it's top-end.~~

[-] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

Damn. I hate to hear that. Guess I'll scratch them off my list.

[-] cogman@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Cafe (spinoff from GE) does a pretty good job with stoves. AFAIK they are still pretty well respected.

The brands to stay away from at all costs are LG and Samsung.

[-] MuteDog@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

LG is actually pretty highly regarded for their clothes washers and dryers.

[-] cogman@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Their refrigerators have been a mess. That makes it hard for me to trust their other appliances.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Just get a Speed Queen. Incredibly durable, easy to repair, and surprisingly quiet.

[-] INeedANewUserName@piefed.social 3 points 9 months ago

The cheapest LG refrigerators that are 2 door freezer on top are pretty well regarded. Their more expensive refrigerators have linear compressors that aren't a great design to begin with and an even worse design for the refrigerant used in the USA compared to the refrigerant they were designed for in Korea. (As I understand it)

[-] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

Do you have a source for that? Their wiki page says that they are still family owned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miele

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

I do not - I've heard it so many times from so many places that I didn't bother checking it before repeating it, but it looks like it was wrong.

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago
[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Someone already pointed that out, so I edited the post with strikethrough hours before you replied.

[-] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Speed Queen IPOd recently. Make of that what you will.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

It's kind of crazy that like heating air is not perfectly mastered in every stove, heating and pumping water in every dishwasher and laundry machine etc. It's very simple stuff after all.

How fuckin cheap du you have to be to make a non perfect machine 🤷🏻‍♀️?!

[-] cogman@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

For stoves, the thing that breaks is the control board. Hot + electronics is bad.

An induction stove avoids most of that problem because the hot happens in the pot and not inside the stove.

But I agree, there's not much reason a stove can't last 50 years. In fact, my parents have a 50 year old resistive stove that still works.

Washers have the most to go wrong of things you listed.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

the hot happens in the pot and not inside the stove

The pot is sitting on the stove. And induction involves electromagnetism, which means it involves metal pots and pans, and metal loops of wire to induce current in that cookware. Metal parts conduct heat very well. So, induction stoves don't get quite as hot as conventional stoves. But, they still get very hot because they have a hot metal pot sitting on them.

Also, while induction stoves don't get quite as hot as other kinds of stoves, they involve large currents and large amounts of magnetism. That means both stress on the electrical parts, and mechanical stress from the magnets.

Overall, I'd guess that an induction stove is probably going to have fewer things that can go wrong with it than a gas stove, a glass-top stove or an olde fashioned electrical resistance stove. But, it isn't like an LED light or something that should last decades because there's no moving parts, no heat, no big currents, etc.

[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My burner igniters aren’t electronic-control and they still failed in a less than decade old stove that was not heavily used at all (I live alone and use the stove, not even the specific burners that failed, maaaaaaaaybe monthly)

They just make their parts cheap overall. Induction isn’t enshittification-proof. If anything it’s more susceptible, being entirely electronic.

That said I’d trade my gas stove for induction if I could, even with enshittification.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah definitely isolate hot things well, it also uses less energy and heats up the surroundings less.

For the washers, maybe but its just like 2 pumps a motor and a control board, it should be simple mechanics to switch those out if they break, IMO.

[-] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Is Asko stil good? Owned by Gorenje since 2010

[-] stretch2m@infosec.pub 3 points 9 months ago

I bought a Bosch dishwasher because of this reputation, and I hate it.

The drying function is a joke. Everything plastic comes out with water still all over it. My Maytag (which admittedly died) used to dry everything perfectly.

Also the racks on the Bosch are poorly organized. It's always a challenge to find places to fit everything.

[-] lemmyng@piefed.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Not to mention that newer low end Bosch dishwashers require an account and app for some functionality.

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Miele is the GOAT. Love our Miele appliances. All of them are now 15 years old and not a single problem. Buying the 10 year warranty was a waste. Buy once, cry once. Only appliances I would consider are Miele and Bosch Benchmark.

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