Isn’t it the Pelosi’s refrigerator ($24000)? It became very famous last year.
It’s funny that 100% of the people that have had a particular brand last 20 years would always recommend it. Also 100% is the people that have had problems early on with a brand would never recommend it.
The new ice makers located on the door are super problematic. If you don’t use the ice in a few days all the ice cubes melt together into one big ice mess.
Yeah, magnets wont stick to mine but I like it that way. Actually means that it’s higher quality stainless, not that it really matters for a refrigerator door. Some companies use regular steel and varnish to make them look stainless. Those are the ones to avoid.
I had the same Electrolux for 25 years. Still works.
Sub-Zero
I bought a Danby mini fridge in late 2014, for my bedroom.
It works very well, but I don't use it hardly at all.
I got one without a freezer because those are not reliable.
When I did my research, Danby was a good brand name for mini fridges.
Bingo it is the one Pelosi uses, costs $24000 and how good it is?
Sofirn?
Only the one that’s cold white.
Our Bosch dishwasher caught on fire. It was choking, acrid, smoke in the kitchen for a bit. Flipped the breaker off and it ceased. Turns out, a wire connection became loose, totally melted a wirenut and the insulation on the wires. Aluminum wires of mismatched (and one was undersized in my view) size - turns out that fires are not an uncommon thing with the Bosch Dishwashers. Which is why aluminum wireing ishn’t used in houses any more. Luckily they used a metal junction box for the connection and it was contained to that. I popped open the box, stripped off the burnt parts of the wire, tinned and soldered the wire tips together and put on an expensive brand new 3M wire nut…you know, the .15/cent one, not the .03/cent Chinese thinggy. Worked.
Now when I wash dishes, I make sure I’m home and lay out 2 fire extinguishers in handy locations. Which gives my wife all kinds of mirth. She notes with a smile: “What’s the matter, don’t you trust your work?” I respond: “If the Bosch designers and factory, all of whom are smarter and better looking than me, can’t make it so it doesn’t catch on fire, why should I think I’m any better than they are?”
Our overpriced Bosch washing machine broke down early as well. The part, it was like the main gear that held the drum on, cost almost as much as a new one. Which is what my wife did. That kind of thing (brand new Bosch washing machine) makes her happy.
Don’t get a side by side, they have two useless, skinny compartments and are a pain to see or reach stuff in the back.
i replaced my sbs with an LG bottom freezer (where it ought to be) double door. Open both doors and you can see everything, store wide pans, and don’t have to bend over for everyday items. A freezer is not used as often as the frig, so why put it in the prime position up top unless you are a glutton for bending over.
It is quiet and efficient and has worked great for 10 years so far.
i use distilled water to make my own ice cubes, i don’t need all the calcium and fluoride in the local water supply. And sure don’t need water and ice in the door of the frig, waste of space too.
We had a basic top-freezer Hotpoint fridge for about 25 years. It was still running fine, but the shelves had gotten rusty and ugly and we wanted a larger one, so we got a Whirlpool french door fridge. Not sure, I think that was about 10-12 years ago, and it’s still running great. No in-door water or ice dispenser.
I agree that those old Maytags were phenomenal. Ours was 32 years old last year when it quit working. Instead of pumping a couple hundred into it to fix it, my son offered to buy us a new washer. Got a Speed Queen. They are the closest thing to the old Maytags for construction and durability, but it does have the electronic controls, unfortunately. Those manual dials on the Maytag got the job done without drama. I can’t complain though, since it’s fun to think that I have the Queen doing my laundry! 
Dishwashers all seem to be junk. 2 to 4 years and something significant goes wrong. We use ours mostly as a drying rack or for rinsing the already-washed dishes; the heating element quit a while back and the wash spray doesn’t cut it for actual washing.
I’ve had that cheapo bit of plumbing leak, and at least half a dozen friends and family members have. Some ended up with major home repairs. Our new LG has an ice maker and water dispenser, but just like the 16 year-old KitchenAid it replaced, it’s not getting hooked up.
None of them are reliable.
Had a Bosch - it broke 4 times (covered under extended warranty) - and they repaid me for the fridge cost (Lowes) to buy out the warranty. The next time it broke I got a new one. Currently have a Whirlpool (from Home Depot). It already broke twice (covered). Once was a simple fix, the other was the main controller.
Check the online stores like Goedeker’s and get a local company to price match. My Whirlpool retails for $3,299. I got the fridge, 5 year extended warranty, 3 years of water filters and installation for $2,100.
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In my shop I have an old metal refrigerator from who knows when. Could be 50, 60 or more years old. It only gets plugged in during the summer months but it still runs like a champ.
That’s strange, plugging and unplugging a refrigerator is supposed to be a death sentence for the motor and compressor. .
This one was ancient when it was given to me and that was probably 20 years ago. Cold as hell too. It’s got that little aluminum freezer section inside at the top that eventually becomes a block of ice.
As long as you wait a while for the pressure to equalize before plugging it back in it shouldn’t matter. Newer refrigerators have a built in delay on the compressor restarting after power loss, something like 10 minutes. Old ones used a self resetting overload so if the compressor wouldn’t start it would trip out then kick back in every few minutes until the pressure dropped enough to start.