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

[jilara.livejournal.com]

I currently have a $1000 fridge but it still has brain-dead temperature control. BTW, try, just try to find a higher-end fridge that *doesn't* have an in-door ice maker. It took me WEEKS to find this model, and it only came in black. Fortunately, I think black fridges are totally cool. ;-)

[captoblivion.livejournal.com]

I will not complain here. I have a 30-year-old fridge in the ugliest brown ever created. It has three shelves and weighs the same as my wife's car. It has three shelves and four moving parts (two of which are doors) and rust stains.

The temperature hardly ever wavers, and I have never had to sit in the floor with a hair dryer to defrost it. I'm going to stick with it...

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

And hey, you could always spraypaint it.

-Ogre

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Heh. Sounds like our fridge. We inherited with the house. It came from Poppa's (Goose's great grandfather) house in Spring Hope, NC. He used to work for Sears.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, have you seen how disgusting with mold and crud in-door icemakers (or more properly, through-the-door ice chutes) get on the inside? And you can't clean them without ripping the door apart. I sure don't want one.

When we're next buying a fridge, we may look at Viking. Or we saw a nice (if a bit on the small side) bottom-freezer unit in brushed stainless steel at Sam's, with bins and trays in a freezer drawer instead of shelves, so you don't lose all the cold air every time you open the freezer.

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

Yes... The day that we went to get the Sewing Machine (it gets capitalized...) lilmissnever and I whiled away an hour in Mt. View going through a high-end kitchen store, drooling over stainless appliances.

Mmmmmm, stainless.

-Ogre