Electric kettles with plastic parts that touch boiling water, particularly the removable mesh thing. It's like a microplastic infuser that's good for about 300 liters, after which it falls apart. Then the kettle doesn't know when to stop automatically and you can't buy a replacement mesh piece because they discontinued that model of kettle last year.
I now have a kettle that doesn't have the funny mesh, but if you don't open the lid while pouring, the scalding hot water just runs down the side.
The old fridge had condenser coils out in the open and you'd just dust them. The new fridge has them under the unit and I can see quite a bit of dust accumulating on them. But I've no clue how to clean them without tipping the entire fridge over.
Also, the newfangled rice cookers. The nonstick coating in them chips off much easier than in regular pots and pans. Then there's 3 or so gaskets, one of which is impossible to remove without breaking the lid. I really hate cleaning rubber gaskets, especially if there's a perfectly fine way to design something without them.
Partner bought me a pet feeder with built in webcam. Worked great for three years until the servers went down. First and last time I trusted any internet connected appliance .
I had a second-hand bread machine that served me very well for several years, until one day when it started vibrating like crazy and threw itself off the counter mid-knead. The whole lid smashed into about seven pieces and the dough went all over the floor. We still refer to it as "the time the bread maker committed suicide."
Anyway, that's how I ended up making all our bread by hand for the next four years or so.
Apparently I'm not alone in this. Though I don't think ours died, though we did give it away... Maybe it's the same machine, transferred several times until it finally found a floor that would finish the job.
My bread machine just slowly developed a leak and died. I decided my stand mixer would do and removed the crying machine.
Samsung dishwasher lit on fire.
Samsung microwave would turn on when I used the stove beneath it.
Everyone I know with a Samsung appliance has had a poor experience with it.
Why are they still popular? Why are people still buying them? Every product review gives major faults too (like catching fire!) and people are like "8/10 because I managed to put it out before by house burnt down".
Meanwhile other brands are crucified for the finish song being too loud, or the door feeling plastic, or some other inane reasoning.
I had a glass shower door to the shower over the bath instead of a curtain. One day I knocked it very slightly on the edge with a bottle of foundation which was only around 3 inches tall.
The glass made a shudder and loud groaning sound. It then literally EXPLODED into little pieces and glass went all over me, all over the bathroom and I was still finding stray ones months later
Samsung Fridge/Freezer. About every spring and fall, our fridge freezes over in the cooling system. The ice builds up and blocks the fan which stops circulation so that the fridge warms up and spoils all the food. Samsung says there is no major issue but it seems to be common flaw talked about online. The fix is to take apart the back of the fridge and remove all the ice. One constantly on of the edge of buying a new one.
Cleaning out the food trap on a dishwasher wax pretty bad, as no one knew it needed that and I hadn't been part of the purchase. It was slowly not working so I searched for the specific manual and tada! death and horror awaited me.
It's clean now. It stays cleaner now or I stab people with forks.
Frigidaire French door fridge/freezer. Nice looking unit that came with the house. It has horrible design flaws though. Frigidaire literally invented the first self-contained fridge in the 1920s so I don't understand why they're so bad at building them.
One of the known design issues is that (at least on older models) there's insufficient insulation between the ice maker and the rear of the fridge. This eventually results in condensation and ice forming on the back of the fridge. A web search for "Frigidaire ice on back" and "Frigidaire rust on back" will find plenty of people reporting the same thing.
The annoying thing is that the lines for the water dispenser and icemaker run right across this part, and they end up frozen inside the ice.
First time I noticed this was when the water dispenser stopped working a few months after we bought the house. Pulled the fridge out and the water lines were frozen, and it had made a mess of the wall (the drywall where the ice was was all broken - I guess drywall doesn't like ice being pressed against it all the time).
I tried insulating it with some Styrofoam, but that was no match for the ice - the ice started forming on top of the Styrofoam instead. Now I've re-routed all the water lines so as to avoid the spot that freezes. I'll get a new fridge eventually. Waiting for a good sale. For now, I'm wondering if I should spray foam it, or if the ice will also defeat that and form on top of the spray foam...
People started encountering this issue maybe 10 years ago. Frigidaire used to offer a "sweat kit" (some sort of fancy insulation) to fix it, but they no longer offer it. I also don't think they ever fixed this issue under warranty for anyone.
Brands like Frigidaire, Kenmore, and Whirlpool generally don't manufacture anything anymore. They pay other companies to make the appliances and then slap their name on them. And you can guarantee they go with the lowest bidder.
I avoid all those brands now.
Used a dough mixer one time and it broke. Manufacturer said i used it improperly as i added too little fat to the dough and all warranty is void.
Stoves with Sensi-temp burners; they've got a weird little spring loaded disc in the center of the burner. Cant even boil fucking water consistently because it shuts itself off over a certain temperature and doesn't come back on for far too long.
Our stove has those and I've never noticed this; everything takes about the same time to cook as on our last stove, which had the older-style elements. I wonder if it might be a problem with your particular model or brand?
Beware of the place named Agitator Appliances, run out of some mad buggers garage.
