Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy

Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by gnicholas on Sunday August 14, 2022 @08:15PM (#32464424)

> who wants a phone app to remotely control a blender?

Here's an idea: if you find the blender to be too loud, go into a different room, close the door, and remotely trigger the blender with your smartphone app.

We put our blender in our pantry because we can close the door and blend without waking up the baby. Otherwise it (Blendtec) is too loud!

EDIT: to the downvoters, this was tongue in cheek. It would obviously be better for them to spend more money on soundproofing and less on a useless app!

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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by 2muchcoffeeman on Sunday August 14, 2022 @08:35PM (#32464536)

This is the worst part about all this smart phone junk and cooking. It's normalising leaving the room and then cooking something remotely a bit too much.

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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by mlyle on Sunday August 14, 2022 @09:47PM (#32465003)

It all depends. Getting notified for time consuming things is great.

Having my smoker self-manage its temperature and graph the amount of heat it's dumped in is nice. Checking on the temperature ramp of the sous vide is nice, too.

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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by gnicholas on Sunday August 14, 2022 @10:01PM (#32465070)

Is blending time-consuming? I guess peanut butter takes a couple minutes, most blending is < 40s IME.

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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by mlyle on Sunday August 14, 2022 @10:57PM (#32465369)

I was just speaking about those specific cases. Running the smoker is a 8-20 hour endeavor. Sous vide is 2-6 usually. Smart devices are kinda nice for this.

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