[nevadapatriot]

Tal Bachman - son of Randy Bachman of Bachman Turner Overdrive fame for those who didn’t know

[rlmorel]

"...And so, after a chat, Dad, Koko, and I decided to throw in together and hunker down in the same house until the Covid lunacy abated. It only made sense. Win-win-win.

Well, it was win-win-win, with a minor caveat. The caveat was the washing machine. Turns out that for all its razzle-dazzle features, it didn't actually clean clothes. Even worse, it took hours to not clean clothes. The "Allergiene" cycle, for example, took almost four hours. Yet when you pulled your clothes out, you could still make out the orange juice or tomato sauce stains..."

Amazing, isn't it? We have cars that won't travel any distance because they are electric, and we have to save the environment. We have washing machines that won't wash because they have to save the environment.

Just wait.

We will enter a phase where they won't even allow us to have cars that won't drive and washing machines that won't wash.

And they will insist that we love it.

[MrLucky1966]

Don’t get me started on those 1,6 gallon toilets, you have to flush them twice and be sure to keep your plunger handy.

[RatRipper]

Our government runs a giant swindling syndicate. Every last facet of our government is evil.

[Myrddin]

I purchased one of those LG washers for my wife. We both hate it. It goes UnEven very often. A small load is nearly impossible. You must put enough in the tub to make the self-balancing work...but not too much. There is a fine line. Too fine. Next time we make a purchase, it will be either a simple top loader with a conventional agitator (the LG has not agitator) or a front loader. Way too much time wasted shepherding laundry loads with this technical wonder.

[glorgau]

Washing machines? I just send the women folk down to the stream to beat clothes on a rock like God intended.

[ConservativeMind]

We have a similar sized front loading LG set, it was top rated in Consumer Reports, and it does a great job.

[TalBlack]

“You could select them with a shiny, space-age-looking chrome dial.“

So then it’s Retro?

[null and void]

For a moment I thought maybe you wrote this...

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I’d be happy to be part of an appliance rebellion but pretty much every new appliance out there is an overpriced piece of s___t these days.

[Little Pig]

I used to have one of those terrible “energy-efficient” washers, and couldn’t stand that after a full cycle, sometimes the clothes weren’t even fully wet (and it was a front-loader). Then I found a place that sells washers to apartment complexes. It is an old-school top-loader with agitator. I think it cost me 450 plus like $15 a month for a “lifetime warranty”, where they actually send a guy to my house if the machine has a problem. If he can’t fix it, they just bring another machine. It cleans my clothes in 30 minutes.

I got astoundingly lucky on the dishwasher front, and scored a literally-unused GE PotScrubber from the 90s. It sounds like niagara falls is inside it when it’s running, but it gets my dishes clean in under 25 minutes.

[WASCWatch]

If you have a “high efficiency” washing machine, you need to was everything on the bulky + deep fill setting, plus double rinse.

[GailA]

Sounds like the dishwasher that came with this starter house. It was noisy, took 4 hrs to process the dishes. My inherited electric stove takes 6 hrs to clean the oven, Hubby replaced the dishwasher with the one from our old house, silent cleaned in 2 hours. New one is 4 hrs but silent we shopped by DB. The lower the quieter. Washer/Dryer are simple dial type sm, med, lg, hot, cold, ans warm. I don’t even hear the buzzers go off, I use dryer sheets, instead of a liquid softner. They stopped cleaning when the PHOSPHATE WAS REMOVED. Fabric bleach or bleach was then needed.

I use white vinegar as a rinse agent in the dishwasher, I refuse to buy the expensive Finish Rinse agent that doesn’t work.

Buy an EV it might take days to charge. I’ll keep my Malibu.

[algore]

I bought an lg pair about 12 years ago.

They look nice and stuff.

The washer does not do a good job.

The dryer is huge which i like but it is super slow.

[Rummyfan]

...and ThinQ™ Technology [Wi-Fi Enabled]).

I do not require nor even want my washing machine to have an embedded WiFi modem. This entire 'internet fo things' is a bad idea - your toaster? Your refrigerator? And remember - anything on any network can be hacked. Anything.

[mabarker1]

LG appliances SUCK!!!! Phones and TV’s are fine.

Wife insisted on getting a new top load, no spindle in the middle, giant tub LG piece of crap. It even has a Diagnostic thing that you hold the phone up to the keypad and it sends codes to be deciphered by the Service Computer on the other end of the call... I’m glad we got the extended warranty because the thing has been worked on at least twice a year since we got it and it finally died last year and she went out looking for a used one and come back with another LG piece of crap from a lady that sold it to her and that’s a piece of shit too !!!

I told her to buy a $100 used one from the appliance people in town and it’ll last you forever. Well finally she does. And it make some weird noises but it works just fine.

DEATH TO LG APPLIANCES AND ROT IN }{€££ !!!

[lefty-lie-spy]

Washing machines still have dials?

[dennisw]

Ping ..... my washer is 2005 so I am good. Making refrigerators and freezers more efficient is a good job done by the Fedrales. But at this point the Feds are doing pretend work/ Meaning refrigerators and freezers are as efficient / electricity saving as they are going to get. But useless Federal bureaucracies never die.

Especially when you “work” from home. The best racket/scam ever!

[Wilderness Conservative]

If possible get your old washer rebuilt. If that isnt an option then put a splitter on your washing machine cold water faucet and attach a short piece of garden hose so you can fill the tub higher than the machine is limited. It works!