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]

Bottom freezer is the way to go. My fridge has this nice design-an-interior feature that lets you do modular design of the layout (and also makes the modules easy to clean---you just take them out and put them in the sink. You'd think that with all the other thought, someone would have thought of a thermostat, by now, though.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Modular interior? Cool. How modular is it, though? I've seen modular-stuff-in-door, but generally just combined with a few movable shelves.

[jilara.livejournal.com]

You can move around the shelves and drawers, and the height settings are about 2" apart, so the spacing is pretty adaptable. The modules divide down the middle of the fridge, so that each side can be individually configured. I understand that if you want to get fancy, you can custom order, say, extra veggie drawers, or coldcuts drawers. You have the option of having the egg tray in the door or in the fridge compartment, too. (I use the fridge.)