My smart fridge lied to me
  • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
    21·
    6 months ago

    Unfortunately, they’re kinda hard to find. We recently got a new fridge, and most of the French door fridges (fridge on top, freezer on bottom) were smart or didn’t have a water dispenser.

    We ended up with a Whirlpool without smart features, other than the “smart” water dispenser (touch screen to auto-fill cup to X liters), and it still has “dumb” buttons for that as well. I haven’t taken it apart, but hopefully the dumb buttons act as a fallback when the smart buttons inevitably fail.

    • Alborlin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      I was sleeping for fridge about a year ago, i didn’t find a single “smart” at all. Max tech was door ice and managed 🌡️ with digital dials

      • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Really? I’m in the US and went to Home Depot, Lowes, Costco, and Best Buy. Our requirements:

        • ice dispenser in the freezer section - ice dispenser’s in the fridge have a high failure rate
        • external water dispenser
        • preference for french door fridge (freezer below fridge)
        • strong preference for no smart stuff
        • not LG or Samsung; strong preference for Maytag or Whirlpool

        So, here’s what we found:

        • about half of the french door refrigerators had “smart” stuff
        • about half of the remainder of french door fridges had a water dispenser in the door, the rest either had none or it was inside the fridge
        • only one french door refrigerator had an ice machine in the freezer, the rest either had none or it was in the fridge; water dispenser was inside the fridge

        So we bought a side-by-side fridge from Whirlpool, which met all of our requirements except the french door design.