[TheBill]

Oh man, this reminds me of a story - GE Profile oven in a ski condo, last day or second to last day we were there.

Broke in a way that you couldn't open the door - and we couldn't get the bacon out. Wound up reading the repair manual and a forum while the GF cooked eggs, trying to figure it out.

The Solenoid that is used to lock the door when it goes through a clean cycle has to be powered on 100% of the time, and keeps its spring compressed. Power turns off to lock it. If the insulator/bushing for it breaks, it will jam open & lock the door. Family will never buy GE appliances after this happened. Mom just bought a new Kitchenaid that's got exactly 0 smart features.

[tragomaskhalos]

Staying in an AirBnB, desperate for a cup of tea, no kettle and only an induction hob. Somehow manage to bork the hob trying to switch it on such that it is just showing an error code (E06 or some such). Much futile googling for said error code, and still no tea at the end of it. Utter madness.

[qbasic_forever]

Sure it wasn't detecting that the pot on top wasn't magnetic and wouldn't heat up? My little portable induction burner is smart enough to detect if the pot won't work and warns you/fails to start.

[Handytinge]

I had to google what a "hob" is, never heard that word. Very funny sounding!

Did you not have an electric kettle? I don't know anyone younger than 80 who uses a stovetop kettle.

[vba616]

>still no tea at the end of it

Oh, that's easy. Just drop the "no tea" and you will have tea.

If you prefer to have tea and no tea at the same time, just remove your common sense.

[bombcar]

The worst part of this stuff is you never find out about it until long after the purchase is over. Unless you happen to know a brand that’s good (say Speed Queen for now) you are stuck trying to guess what issues may occur someday.

[bob1029]

> Speed Queen

The only vendor who still sells a washer without lid lock... I'm looking at getting their TC5 to replace this piece of shit maytag that doesnt fill up properly.

[bombcar]

I have to admire the absolute ingeniousness to make it only on the high end one heh.

I suspect you could just buy the parts - they’re all very similar internally even sharing parts with the commercial models.

[R0b0t1]

That's hilarious. It was an engineer trying to be fake safe. Losing control over your device is going to be less safe than just letting the user open the door during a clean cycle if the power drops.