Appliances you HATE?
 

There has to be SOMETHING around the house that you use, but just can't stand.

For me, it's this God-forsaken GE dishwasher. Not only is it completely incapable of actually getting the dishes clean, but the racks are so poorly designed that nothing fits in the damn thing. But by FAR, the worst characteristic is the noise.

I know dishwasher's aren't the quietest contraptions in the world, but sitting 15 feet away in my living room is roughly the equivalent to the cleaning cycle of a drive-through automated car wash.

A close second would be my ice maker. It happens to lack the ability of being turned off. All day, every day, making and dumping ice into the ever growing glacier in the middle of my freezer.


So, what's the biggest POS you've got floating around your homestead?

I despise my washing machine. Half the time it doesn't drain properly, so I have to re-run the Drain and Spin cycle. Fun days are when I'm not paying attention and reach my hand in there, only to get soaked. The POS is only two and a half years old. I probably wouldn't be quite so pissy about it if my washer and dryer weren't in the basement of my building. I'm on the second floor, so running up and down the stairs to do my laundry puts me in a foul mood even before I have to deal with machine malfunctions.

Meanwhile, in the Fair house, the dishwasher is...well, me.

My refer sucks. Not long after I moved in it caught fire. A little troubleshooting and 16G wire and that no longer happens but it still sucks. Some of the problem is the humidity here. But a lot is it needs a new thermostat which I can't find down here.

Navi..... Not in my house but in our new car.

Get a damn map. I swear it is becoming a lost art to read a map.

It just makes me mad that people need Google Maps to find anything anymore.

I intend to someday send my vacuum cleaner to hell...fuckin' thing.
Its heavy as sin, smells bad when in use (don't suggest anything, I've done it all), nips my heels and ankles because the "wheels" stick, forcing me to drag it, and overheats! Fucking piece of shit.

Vacuum cleaners. All of them.

I saw a report one day where people were driving into rivers and buildings etc... All based on what their Nav systems were telling them. Such as "Turn left now." So they turn left and end up in someone's living room.

In some ways technology is making people less intelligent by the day, IMHO.

Vacuum Cleaner - though I've never really thought of it much as an actuall appliance but more like a tool, like a power drill/screwdriver...

Mine has a problem with the switch in the handle. The sliding of the switch over the metal connectors underneath has worn them down making the connection a little iffy. Apparantly this has been a problem with this model because the company has stopped producing replacement switches and is only selling the WHOLE handle. The switch used to be about $8 or $8 bucks but the handle is at least $30. Rippoff. The warranty of course ran out last year. Sucks. I either have to bear with the sporadic on and off while I vacuum until it completely wears out, or get a new handle for another year or two (since the warranty on that is probably even shorter). OR foot the bill for a brand new vacuum. As much as I hate the prices on those Kirby Vacuums, I seem to recall a lifetime warrenty on it. If I could find the find print to be reasonable enough I would be willing to buy one of those so long as I had the money at the time.

For now - I'm living with it and bitching about it. ;)

I've got one word for you - Miele. Man, our dishwasher is quiet :) All dishwashers are not the same. I don't think I dislike any of our appliances, so I'm not sure why I'm here.

I'm frustrated with dryers. The things eat so much electricity it's crazy, even with "energy star". I'm thinking about line-drying my clothes. There's got to be a more efficient method of drying clothes that doesn't involve hanging them up for hours until they're stiff and dry.

I get Costco brand fabric softener and it seems to help. So does shaking them well at the line and folding them.

Someday I'm going to make someone a fine wife.

Ok mom. LOL

I hate the vacuum.

:lol: Made of Honor 2: Let's Get This Party Started

I tried line drying a few years ago, and clothes do last longer that way, but even with shaking they seem stiff. Maybe that's the price of being green: stiff socks. :expressionless:
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I figure the muscles cancel that out, but I could be wrong. I'll leave these questions to historians and philosophers.

I do both, hang on the line until stiff and dry and then fluff in the dryer for a couple of minutes.


I love the smell of line dried clothes, very fresh...except when the farmers spread the fields with fresh pig shi....

I do the opposite-run them thru the dryer for 10 minutes then hang. They don't have any wrinkles and aren't board-stiff.

Oops...
The appliance I hate-my vaccuum cleaner. When it was time to buy one, I read three consumer books and they all picked this model. They were all lying sacks of shit.

The Magic Bullet. The thing does not puree anything. Seriously, pesto is a challenge, or a fruit smoothie. I just want to chop something!!!

Are sex toys appliances? Because my wife has one that broke after one or two uses. Receipt or not that is just something that she didn't want to return.

My dishwasher is such a POS. I use it as a large drying rack now. I am in a rented apartment so I don't have much say over it.

I had a Magic Bullet because it was Buy One, Get One and my sister wanted one so I got the extra. It was pretty worthless. I gave it away after using it once to crush some ice.

I hate my refrigerator. It's old, inefficient, and tiny. With 4 people in the house, we've had to switch to buying some groceries communally to save on fridge space. We can't have our own individual blocks of Tillamook cheese if we're going to have room for all the beer.

I also dislike the dishwasher intensely. It's as old as the fridge. I think they were purchased at the same time--they're both from the 70s and they're both Kenmore. We have to use the pots and pans setting if the dishes are actually going to get clean, especially on the top rack. I miss our old dishwasher--it was a brand-new Frigidaire that worked like a charm, even on the energy saver setting. It also had a separate top rack only function. I'm also jealous of my parents' Bosch. The thing is so quiet you can't tell when it's running.

All my appliances stink. Washing machine, dryer, dish washer, and even the hot water heater. My best clothes dryer was purchased well used for $50 and lasted at least 10 years. I have bought new lately and can't even get one to last 6 years without repairs. However I can't include my freezer in the Bad list. Payed about $60, 5 years ago. The thing is so old the coils are built into the shelves on the inside. (guessing about a mid 60's model) It did prove a point. They don't make appliances like they used to.

I would say my overhead oven fan.

I need to make it vent outside. the last people who lived there, just put it up, and all it does is circulate the air. No vent to the outside at all.

I know this is bad in the long run. That is why I am saving up all my money to dump at least $15k in my kitchen.

oh god yes,

This is some random quote I pulled from a NY times article about the rise of PDA's in the late 90's.

"The popular notion has it that we use only 10 percent of our brain power,
when in truth it seems to take 110 percent just to muddle through the day.
So we supplement our minds with machines,
then agonize over whether they are telling us the truth."

Who makes the machines?

The remote control ... to my car stereo. That's right, my car stereo has a remote control. It adjusts the volume as well as changes which song is playing on the cd. Hubby bought it for my car as a surprise.

WTF?! This has to be a 'guy' thing, right?

Skynet.

I hate our dishwasher and our washing machine. The dishwasher, which came with the house, is always clogging up with water and there are portions of the bottom rack that are rusting; we're very much due for a new one.

Thanks to space constraints in our house, we were stuck with purchasing a stackable washer and dryer (two separate front-load units, not the single unit with a dryer on top of a top-loading washer). We didn't know the washing machine in the set being offered in our price range at Sears had no filter in front of the drain pump. We're typically about 85% vigilant with emptying our pockets before the clothes go in the washer. As luck would have it, we've had to replace the drain pump twice after coins got left behind in our pockets a handful of times.

Yes, we're more careful now, but both of us had gone our whole lives laundering clothes with stuff left in pockets before and never had this problem until now.

The first apartment I ever lived in, I tried the dishwasher out once, and forget it. Water leaked everywhere. Washer and dryer was in the basement (where I slipped on ice because to go downstairs requires walking down a RAMP), cracked my head, and got a small concussion).

Next apartment I lived in, didn't even HAVE a dishwasher. Washer and dryer was on the first floor in the ex's mother's home (not that I minded, but good lord, they piled their clothes up SO MUCH you couldn't even GET to the washer and dryer.

Finally, the place I'm at now has a good fridge, good ice maker, good microwave you could fit a turkey in, and a good washer and dryer. I've finally found peace in the appliance world.

Our stackable washer and dryer set tends to be a pain in the ass for me since our laundry room is small - no folding space.

The dishwasher is okay, fridge is fine, microwave is alright.. the oven makes the stovetop REALLY hot which sucks if you're cooking half-naked and brush against it. The fan in the stove hood doesn't work at all.

i hate microwaves.
all of them.

i have a deeply conflictual relation to my television too, but that's another matter.

Yeah, my microwave is crap. Its way too small, and weak. Hmmm...

My most agregious HATE goes toward my cordless handheld vacuum cleaner. I wish I could say it totally sucks, but it just don't suck anywhere near strong enough for long enough. In fact, every one I've ever owned totally blows. Somebody needs to build one with a battery that can run one of these at full power for at least a few minutes and has great suction.

We got new LG brand washer and dryer recently. I am so impressed with these machines! They look great and work even better. The washer is so smooth and quiet you can hardly hear it even standing next to it; it uses only a fraction of the water our old Maytag used and it's still very effective at washing dirt out, plus it spins the clothes so thoroughly that sometimes I'm tempted to not even use the dryer, except the dryer is so cool I throw the clothes in there anyway just so I can work the controls and hear the great little dingy bell sound when it's finished, plus all the cool lights in the controls almost give me flashbacks. All appliances should work this well.

The oven in this apartment is horrible. I has broken twice since we moved in about 5 months ago. I'm guessing from the color avocado green, that it is from the 70's. You can barely read the dials, so you have a hard time figuring out what temperature it's on.

The most frustrating appliance I have ever used was an old refrigerator. The freezer would build up frost so fast there would be a hole, about the size of your hand, left in a few weeks. Then my roommate broke it by trying to chip away frost with a large knife and hammer. The freon leaked out and everything in the fridge went bad. Then he swears he didn't cause the refrigerator to break.

I don't have a TV, dishwasher, tumbledryer, or microwave... it's just me and my SO living here so none of them are necessary. But the vacuum cleaner.. GRRRRR... fucking hate it!!

Do computers count as appliances?

Sometimes I'd happily take a big hammer to mine and I'm good with computers.

our washing machine gets grumpy and won't let you open the door or start a cycle for hours on end, then finally gives in and takes forever to do anything (and does a bad job even then).

I hate my damn fridge. It is an ancient RCA (did't evn know RCA made fridges). It is so damn small inside that I can't put large bottles standing upright, the door shelves are flimsy and broken, it sucks electricity and it makes odd clicking noises. Now I know why the previous residents left it behind.

My lawnmower. It would work perfectly if Sears made the right replacement parts for it. The primer bulb won't stay seated, so I have to continually pound it back in with a hammer and screwdrivers, or it won't start. Sears stopped making the grasscatcher style that it came with, and the new one I had to get is way too small and falls off at the slightest bump, which leads to a lot of starting and stopping. The lever to the kill switch has broken, and Sears no longer sells that part, so I have to wedge a block of wood under the switch to keep it from shutting off. This, of course, makes it unsafe to operate. I hate Sears. The time has long since come for this horrible shell of a company to die and let something competent take its place. I hope their next board meeting is interrupted by a pack of rabid wolves who assrape the corporate officers, and my hatred for them burns like the fire of a thousand suns.http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...2007/gripe.gif

Other than that, I have no complaints.

If computers count..then I have two printers connected to mine. But somehow the printers seems to have a constant fight, inside my PC, for supremacy. The little one I use the most, seems to loose and needs constant help by reinstalling .... AARGH.

Yeah it's funny when it's on TV, I guess. In real life I can't decide if it sad, scary or both.

TheStar.com | Columnist | Scary when GPS voice has it wrong

raeanna74, there is another option for your VC.
Short out the switch so that when you plug the VC "in" the power is on.
Unplug it to turn it off.
Many people are able to do this simple wiring job for you if you can't.

dyson
 

I pretty much felt like this, until I got a dyson..it is heaven, it does what its supposed to do with all the extras...the man who invented is amazing...I tell everyone I know , you would thibnk I owned stock in the company, wish I did. the vacuum is awesome!!

My Dyson is one of the few things I stored and didn't sell when I moved. I have the "animal" model and it really does a job on dog hair. Every vac I had prior to it clogged or stopped working after 10mins. It wasn't cheap but I felt like I got what I pay for, which is rare any more.

leaf blowers

I agree they blow.

The George Foreman Grill. God, i hated that fucking thing! My ex made me buy it cause when we moved our 2nd floor apt didn't have anywhere for the BBQ, so we 'had' to get an indoor grill. Incredible fat draining technology, my ass! When I moved again, (she had already moved without the goddamn thing), I took it to the Sally Ann and left it at the drop off. Good riddance!

i'm with roachboy...........piece of garbage we have here.

I like mine, but all I ever use it for is melting butter for other recipes and making popcorn.

My coffee machine, I love, because I depend on coffee. But it's no longer working and I now loathe it.

Thanks. I would do that but the switch is encased in a plastic box that, in order to get into it, I would have to break the case. If I broke the case, the switch would not stay in place. Even if I soldered that in, then there's the problem of not being able to turn off the beater brush for hard floors. We have considered adding a small amount of solder to each connection to increase it's thickness BUT the opening in the plastic box through which we would have to do the soldering may be too small to get the solder wire through. When the switch completely stops working we'll have to try the least destructive option first and move to the more destructive as we go along.

I suppose I could just cut the wires and wire them together to have it set to constant on, same problem with hard floors there too. *sigh* cheap plastic switches :shakehead:

Pick up one of these for a few bucks:
http://fantes.com/images/15681coffee-manualdrip.jpg

It only makes a single cup of coffee at a time, but it's a good backup to have around, as all it needs is ground coffee and hot water to work. We're a little tricked out with coffee paraphernalia at our house--we have two of these, a French press, a fancy-dancy programmable coffee maker with built-in grinder and thermal carafe, a cheapie Mr. Coffee coffee maker, and two other grinders. So even if something broke, we would have a backup. That's good as I also depend on coffee.

Thank you!! What happened to the lost art of reading a map? I'd rather have a map than directions so I can see the big picture. And what if the systems goes down? Then, what would you do?? I can buy a lot of maps for the $2,500 it costs to buy a car with the system and even the small versions are $200 and flop around all over your car, require power and a thether big brother can use in reverse.

Give me a pocket map and I'm in business and no one knows where I am!!

As for my original thought, I hate my microwave. Not because it doesn't work but because I only use it for popcorn and to melt butter. Food tastes much better warmed in the oven.
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Also...Always remember - you can heat water on the stove and pour it through a broken coffee maker. That's what we do if the power is ever out since we have a gas stove.

After four tries, I finally have a microwave that can cook popcorn. I suppose the last three technically did cook it, but they also set it on fire.

We talked about this at work today in the lunchroom. I think if you drive into a river just because a computer voice tells you to, you shouldn't be driving. In fact, you probably shouldn't be reproducing, either. My coworker swears it's a conspiracy to weed the stupid from among us. "Turn right here...collision detected...doors locked...self destruct initiated..." It was a hilarious conversation that left us with aching bellies from laughing so hard. My makeup needed a serious retouch.

end threadjack.

I don't have any real life experience with them in urban areas. But in rural areas they can indeed suck. I rented a car one time in Beaverton, Or after dropping off my truly most hated appliance, my Ford F-150, at the repair shop. The car I rented had a GPS system in with traffic alerts, weather alerts. I guess it would even recommend a restaurant. I got in it and thought "hey this is interesting, I'll input my home address near Astoria and see what route it suggests." The idea it came up with was drive through McMinnville to Grand Ronde then over to Tillamook and up Hwy 101 to Astoria. It gave me a total est. travel time of four plus hours, which I think was a low ball number. I decided to do the Cornelius Pass to Hwy 30 and was home inside an hour and twenty minutes.

Christ, that's way outta the way. Even taking the Sunset all the way out and driving up 101 would be faster. That would probably be my choice, given the destination and my familiarity with those roads.

Man, I miss the North Oregon Coast.

And ItWasMe, I laughed so hard at your post that I had tears in my eyes.

I do too, but I don't miss the cold rain.

Yes Itwasme's had me laughing too. Yet thinking, hum... is this really that bad an idea?

BTW- my house is about 12 miles east of Astoria little south of HWY 30. Currently leased to the Coast Guard.

Probably form for a Mod to thread jack so...

Another appliance I hate is my Magic Bullet. At least one other mention on here for this product. Magic my ass. The only magic preformed by this POS shit is separating people from their money. Someone said they "crushed ice once." My thought was really? Was the ice already half way crushed... 'cause mine won't do that. POS.

Tully, I feel the same way about my parents' central vacuum system as you do about your dyson. Didn't realize how spoiled I was until I moved away.

Appliances I hate:
Food processor. Not just any food processors - just the broken one that my mother in law still uses because she doesn't want to bother getting one that's functional.
Refrigerator. See reason above.
Garage refrigerator. See reason above.
Garage door opener. See reason above.
I swear this place isn't falling apart, just a few critical pieces.

Clocks....always with their incessant ticking.

I hate using my family's computer. This thing is so slow. My littlest sister has loaded this thing with so much crap.

Adding the smoke detectors in my apartment to the list.

They are SO FREAKIN SENSITIVE. Just a wisp of smoke is enough to set them off. And all three of them go off, all at once. Its almost impossible to cook or broil anything in here. And I know its not just me, because throughout the day I can hear the melodious beeping from the floors beneath me.

i have Kitchen Aid Appliances.

Pieces of shit, everyone of them (except the fridge, for some reason, the fridge works.)

All are about 2001 or so.

Washer - Broken 3 times. Last time I fixed it myself by diagnosing from a site on the web.

Drier - For some reason, every once in a while, the drum siezes up. I need to spin it by hand to free it up.

Oven - biggest piece of shit ever. Broken down 3 times now. The last time, it just didn't heat anything up.

Cooktop, one knob doesn't turn properly, when you turn the gas on, it doesn't always ignite the gas.


Long and short of it, I found out that Whirlpool makes pretty much every appliance in North America now.

Whirlpool (obviously)
Kitchen Aid
Amana
Maytag
Kenmore
Inglis

can openers. i don't get them. i prefer the manual can openers...

oh dear LMAO. Sorry but the visuals on that one were great. Kinda defeats the purpose...
hey honey let's have frozen pizza for dinner...sounds good let me just put the pizza in the fridge, it'll be charred up in a minute

I had an electric can opener from hell - that I had to put outta it's misery and toss in the trash! The newer old-fashioned hand held opener works much better and doesn't try to chew off my thumb when I use it.

EEEeeeks!!

Funny how these are a "love 'em or hate 'em" kind of thing. My hunny hates the incessent ticking, especially when he's trying to sleep. I LOVE them. Had a few wind up ones at one time. Would hang a wind up pocket watch by my bed so I could hear the soft tick tick when I was going to sleep. I had a wind up watch (needs a new glass so not using it now) that I used to wear all the time and leaning my head on my hand so that I could hear it ticking away was theraputic.

I've used one. I think i was cleaning for someone in preparation for a party or because he was sick. Anyway, to me, it's the same as the rest and i hate it. The dog hates Hoovers & Dysons & all the rest, too. I think it might have something to do with our ears.

In the absence of carpets -- which i dislike as much as vacuum cleaners -- a broom is perfectly adequate. It is quiet, simple, and effective.

I sell appliance insurance for a living. This is a rich vein of knowledge for my day to day
work. I'm not kidding.
I do this shitty job to feed and clothe my daughter. Additionally, what I sell is somewhat
worthwhile. It's okay if you wish to insure products that have cost you a lot in the past.
Maybe then you are cursed. But a buy a service plan, NEVER a warranty.
Get parts and labour costs out of the way. Warranties generally suck.
Don't worry, I'm not trying to sell anything here.
Just stating it as it is.
Chris

Anything that vibrates my hands too much.. saws, sanders, leaf blowers, snow blowers etc.

I have to think a bit to find appliances I don't hate. All large appliances are hated except the gas stove and it will probably make the list soon. My dual fuel heat pump is the most despised. 15 years of service calls and it is working at only about 65% capacity as I type.

I am an in appliance sales so most of mine are really good. As someone stated on page one, Miele is an incredable D/W. I love my Sub Zero ref. and wolk range.

I think I have that same dishwasher, what an annoying POS. They aren't all this bad. My parents just bought a new GE, middle of the line model. It's virtually silent, We can actually carry on a conversation standing next to it. The difference is in the insulation. My el cheapo GE has a thin fiberglass blanket covering the box. Their's has a layer of insulating foam covered with a dense fiber glass blanket, world of difference. I'm thinking a couple of cans of 'Great Stuff' are going to solve the problem until I can get a new one.

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Add my ceiling fans to the list. They all only have a low setting. When I turn a fan on, I want gale force winds blowing down on me, not mouse farts.

I hate pretty much all of our small appliances, because when my wife takes them out to use, she neither cleans them nor puts them away. In a week, there is no counter space left :-(

I can relate to this one, it is now part of my cooking routine. turn on oven, take down smoke detector. turn oven off, put smoked detector back.

bastard.


oddly today i purchased a fire extinguisher out of the blue. saw one on the wall at the store, realized i don't have one and purchased one for my kitchen.

I agree with you, they barely work. The worst is in the summer, when it's hot and you have the ceiling fans on and all it does is blow hot air out, it just makes it worse. However, I've come across certain ceiling fans that actually work well but, their prices speak for them selves!

Well, both appliances are long since gone! PHEW. Parents replaced the fridge not too long after that post with a brand-new side-by-side, and then they replaced the dishwasher a month or so ago. Now we have the same quiet Bosch my parents have in their home. SCORE! I really don't mind doing dishes anymore. That Bosch can handle anything, and I mean anything.

I hate juicers. They're difficult to clean (usually) and take out too much of the good stuff. I prefer a blender.

I also hate it when people complain about their dishwashers. I haven't had access to a dishwasher since 1998. :)

Garbage disposals whisper evil self-destructive bloody horrorshow ideas.

InSinkErators want to eat my hand.

::::looks up and over at the woman who speaks like river movement::::

ah..ring...:::sparking eyes:::CD speaks highly of you!

I myself loathe anything electronic. Ask CD what face I wear when he starts speaking electronicese to me....

appliances? food processors are dungeon crackers of bones..waiting for my fingers...

hate is still such a strong word...

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A hearty hello & fine to meet you!

Hate is often misunderstood. Strong dislikes happen.

food processors suck, and not in a good way.....

:::finger in my pursed puckered lips looking innocently at CD:::::

Paper shredders! They always jam up and then take forever to start working again. Even if you keep the papers to the specified limit they bunch and clog.

We need a new one, since our last one met its demise in the aforementioned fashion.

The new GPS system Hubby now has in his car. Man, those things need eyeballs and a brain. Pulled out of a parking lot, and the stupid thing kept insisting we turn left ... due to new road construction, NOT ONLY could we not turn left (new road divider), but the street to the left had a road block for the construction. So we turned right instead.
"Left turn here." we turned right.
"Recalculating." great. got a little farther down the road ...
"In 1/4 mile, left turn" we turned left.
"In about blablabla of a mile, make a left turn." we turned left.
"In about blablabla of a mile, make a left turn." now WHY does this look familiar?
"Right turn here." well, crap ... just what we thought ... it took us BACK to the construction road block.
We turned left instead and pissed it off some more (and slightly dodge a new road divider)

The Computer ? Haha

I really hated my last roommates electric can opener. noisy as hell and pretty fucking pointless.

The juicer.

Too messy but I do so like the juice. :)