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You can already buy appliances like that.
These are the top rated brands by Consumer Reports. The top rated brand by reliability? Their site...doesn't seem to list prices. That's never a good sign..But a search of Google shopping indicates that their fridges start at $7000 and up. Quality brands exist. They just cost 3-10 times the cheaper brands.
I was a subscriber to Consumer Reports for years and trusted them implicitly because they seemed so thorough and rigorous. Then they did reviews on a subject with which I am intimately familiar (it was computer related), and I was shocked at how badly they fumbled just about everything. I've also seen some really dubious ratings on high ticket items like cars that I knew were not great, so I take their ratings with grain of salt anymore.
The fact that Whirlpool is even on this list makes it a joke to me. I will say I've had a Miele dishwasher in the past and it was fucking awesome, and have heard great things about a lot of Bosch appliances. But LG and Whirlpool frequently put out trash appliances.
Seems like there could be a crowdsourced version of Consumer Reports. A standardized battery of tests for each product category, and different youtubers could test products according to the test and produce (ideally reproducible) reports for each product. Not sure how the standardized tests would be created or maintained, or how the whole thing would be funded. But it would be cool to have some common, non-commercialized benchmarks that do what Consumer Reports does, but with better transparency and less opportunity to fudge.
My rule is if the company has ever made a TV or Cell Phone I will NEVER buy their kitchen appliance.
i feel like this rule accomplishes nothing. Do you just hate LG?
And Samsung. Had one of their appliances. It broke. Less than 10 years old and Samsung doesn’t make parts anymore.
I had to find someone on eBay that could fix it.
Meanwhile the Whirlpool washing machine I bought at the same time had issues and parts were readily available.
It works for Samsung... So, rule is definitely accomplishing something.
I've long since learned never to touch Samsung for anything that isn't a screen or flash memory... Any software or appliances are pretty much trash.
The second is a mass market brand though.
I find it very suspicious, LG (like Samsung) is famous for unreliable fridges. And Miele sell rebranded Liebherr fridges, which come with 10 year warranty.. I wonder what their methodology is (not enough to research but I would if buying an appliance).
I had a Samsung dishwasher in my previous house. Had to replace the pump twice in the 3 years I lived there. Utter garbage. Didn't clean very well either.
I'm told that the cheapeast LG refrigerators with the freezer on top two door are some of the more reliable. The fancy LG fridges have notoriously unreliable linear compressors? that are even MORE unreliable in the USA because we use a different refrigerant than what they were even designed for and they weren't good before that change.
Thanks to a rather high profile class action lawsuit, LG no longer uses linear compressors in their refrigerators. At least in the US.
That's the other factor with those older appliances that just keep on going forever. They usually serve one function and serve it well. My kitchenaid mixer is 20 years old. I'm the second owner and it's still going strong. But those things are also built like tanks. Simple parts. Dirt simple operation. There is no app to control the thing. There's a single control lever that controls power and speed, in the wonderfully precise measurements of "1 to 10."
My mixer has two and only two functions - to turn a mixing paddle and to power attachments via a power take-off. All the accessories? They're cheap and easily replaceable. I have some accessories like an ice cream maker and vegetable spiralizer. They can break without affecting the main unit. Your Grandma's 50 year old fridge? It has just two, or maybe even just one compartment. One or two doors to keep seals to a minimum. No in-door ice maker. No countless conveniences that make life easier but also produce failure points. Might not even have automatic defrost. It's just a box that keeps things cold. The most common reason for service calls on modern fridges are issues with the in-door ice makers.
If you wanted a bullet proof fridge setup, your best bet would be to find a single cabinet fridge without a freezer at all and then keep a chest freezer elsewhere as your only freezer. Yes, a bit more inconvenient. But if you want to max out your stats on durability rather than convenience, that's the way to go.
If you want a device that lasts, buy the version of that device that is as dirt-simple as possible.
Whats the source of that ranking?