Posted on 05/01/2017 11:39:15 AM PDT by C19fan
I attended the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in 2011. It's the world's largest trade show, with hundreds of new products introduced each year. What I saw were booths stuffed with future landfill: docks, dashboard mounts, adapters, robotic vacuum cleaners, 3D TVs. One afternoon, I attended a panel discussion about the rapidly approaching "connected home," referred to nowadays as the Internet of Things. The panelists promised that household devices of all kinds would soon be connected to one another and to the internet, thereby transforming the average American home into a futuristic fortress of hyperefficiency.
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When I was a kid, our dishwasher went out. At that time, we were hosting a foreign exchange student from Germany. When the student asked if we were going to replace it, my dad looked him square in the eye and said, "No, we just imported one from Germany."
The poor guy's face read like "oh no!" My dad busted out laughing, and said the new one would be in in a week.
[ I am very happy with our Bosch. It is QUIET. You almost can not hear it running. I pre rinse but there is no need. Best dishwasher I have ever had. Did I mention how QUIET it is. Also, the water in it while washing approaches boiling point. Just be careful if you add a dish. It gets stuff squeaky clean. ]
I’ve heard that some models have a “LEGO Setting”....
I ask this because there are a lot of LEGOs in our household!
If a salesperson said “smart phone” I would just play dumb and say “what is that, never heard of it”?
I look old enough to get away with it. :-)
Kitchen Aids, designed and built in America without govt “help” from the EPA.
[ So far at least, nothing says you have to connect them to the internet.
My fridge shows up on my network...but its just ignored and not connected. ]
I am tech savvy, so I could hack it and make it think i eat only kale, LOL
You must have a Kitchenaid, made in America model.
Alexa thinks I live in Carlsbad, CA—wrong coast.
I like my smart devices stupid!
TV show Person of Interest was only a few years ahead of the new reality...
Yeah, I think I knew that you were a woman.
So then I have to second the Bosch. We’ve have had one for some time and typically run it two times per day, and sometimes three times per day. So we use it almost like a commercial product and have had no problems.
I do not want a "smart home". Those products are not durable and they offer a great opportunity to be spied on. The only "smart thing" I have is my flatscreen TV, used only to watch Netflix. When not in use, I turn the whole thing off by switching off the power strip it's plugged into.
If one is a good boy, potentially a beer fetcher too...
If you want a washer go with the mechanical control Speed Queen. Bullet proof. Washes very very well. The touch screen stuff today is junk. Board goes out and it costs you 2 to 3 hundred bucks in parts alone if you are lucky, and a lot more if you are not.
On the Bosch, set it at the heavy clean cycle, and dont touch that again. The on off switch is an extremely durable design. Settings switches are not.
My wife had to get rid of a well known make of dishwasher because it kept on clogging up. Tried everything but it still clogged. Was simple though and about eight years old.
We then got a super dishwasher with four different "choices" of application. The simplest is 30 minutes fast wash for lightly soiled dishes/pans. Great! The next is 1hr 45 minutes for more heavy cleaning. Also two other applications for even more sticky utensils. Four times out of five the 30 minute "fast wash" will not seem to come on, but switches to the long wash.
Could be me pushing buttons, but unlikely, cos' I simply hit the fast wash every time. Oh well!.....
LOL,
For man in the 1950’s Buying a dumb dishwasher in the 1950’s meant screening his blonde girlfriend with an IQ test.
I know, bad joke
She'd look better in blue.
There is a store in my part of town that rehabs and sells used washers and dryers. They do a booming business.
In many ways those machines are superior to today’s eco-friendly ones.
I want a refrigerator that will keep things cold. I may splurge and get one with an icemaker, though they are usually the first thing to break.
I do not want a refrigerator that takes inventory, orders more food for me, or phones home for any reason.
Oh and as a bonus, it dries differently than most dishwashers. Plastic can go anywhere.
As far as legos, throw them in a mesh bag and throw them in. Rinse them after washing still in the bag and then throw the bag in your dryer on its lowest setting for a few minutes. EZ Peasy. Dont touch the settings on the Bosh. Set it for heavy duty wash and just leave it there.
And she ain't no Chauvinist woman, neither.
The (older, traditional) Asian way is to respect a man, not cater to him.
The end result looks the same, but it is ALL in the motivation.
You don't want to be on the receiving end of Asian female fire.
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