Rhetorical refrigeration question

[unixronin]

...Would it be too much to ask to be able to buy a refrigerator/freezer with a bloody THERMOSTAT for each compartment, instead of just a stupid "warmer/colder" dial?  Would it be so unthinkable to be able to set the refrigerator to, say, 36°F and have it just maintain 36°F?

I mean, this should be something you set once for each compartment and forget about it until you replace the refrigerator.  Instead, we get a pair of stupid little plastic dials that affect each other in non-intuitive ways and which you have to keep constantly futzing with as the weather gets warmer and colder and the food load changes, in an effort to maintain sensible refrigerator and freezer temperatures, when the same job could be done automatically by two fifty-cent thermostats and a brain-damaged embedded controller.

Is this complete ass, or what?

Comments

[felinecanine.livejournal.com]

...Would it be too much to ask ...

Well, that depends on how much you are willing to spend. I believe many
high-end units have this kind of feature. I found
one example (http://www.kitchenaid.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ExecMacro/prod_feat_major.d2w/report?prmenbr=136&prrfnbr=643452&feat_nbr=407) on the Kitchen-Aid website.

Or if you're into do-it-yourself solutions, there's
this (http://www.homebrewers.com/product/500326)

[bfudlmint.livejournal.com]

The plug in thermometer looks poorly designed to regulate both the fridge and the freezer. If I only used one of them I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Now to go back to that site and look at the brewing supplies.