They made the same thing in white and black, but it cost $200 more to get it in not-stainless-steel. But I thought it would be in the basement, where no one would ever see it, so I bought stainless steel. Fuck me.
So now I have this giant useless surface that attracts fingerprints. Where I used to have a grocery list, and coupons, and old children’s art that still made me smile, and Christmas cards, now I have this ugly useless thing.
Who thinks this is a good idea? #$^#@ stainless steel appliances.
We ended up with stainless steel on the dishwasher when we last replaced it for similar reasons – almost everything only came in stainless, and it was really restrictive to try to get something else. But that door wasn’t as convenient and visible as the fridge, so it didn’t bother me as much.
We bought all new appliances when we built our house 15 years ago, and I hated stainless steel even back then. All of our appliances are white. And yes, we have fridge magnets and grocery lists covering the refrigerator.
Totally disagree. Stainless steel has been popular for around 20 years now and still is. Meaning I don’t have a hopelessly dated looking kitchen. I’m talking to you olive green and almond yellow.
I once read that the dress swords of Marine officers and noncoms are now made of stainless steel, which is too brittle to be of any use in combat (not that anyone would use a sword in combat, against an enemy who has rifles. In WWII, the Japanese attached bayonets to light machine guns, which were too unwieldy to use as thrusting weapons, but that was because of the sword-based samurai heritage of their military culture).
It’s an appliance, not a fashion statement. The only ones who dictate whether an appliance is “in style” are the companies making appliances. It’s a scam.
Does it still work, and function as intended? That is all that matters. It’s not a fucking scarf that is no longer “in season”
There was both an almond and a harvest gold. Almond, a sort of yellowish-ivory, actually lingered well into the 80s.
What’s funny is that my sister did her whole house in an updated versions of the palate (we didn’t realize until later) and it looked amazing. They were the same colors, but lighter and clearer. I think that the problem with the “earth tones” was more that they were made when synthetic dyes were much less capable of subtlety.
I don’t care for avocado green, but I kinda like harvest gold. If that had been available for the same price as stainless I might have gotten it. My cabinets are painted a sort of cream color that would go well with it.
But I like white. And I like to cover it with stuff.
Then the OP should have complained about the ability of it to cool his ice cream or hold multiple cases of Old German. He chose to pit it’s looks and magnet holding capabilities.
The freezer section is also a lot smaller than I expected, but we’ll make do. Well probably need to use the freezer section of the basement appliance more often.
But stainless steel doesn’t prevent it from keeping ice cream cold. It does prevent it from ever looking really clean (fingerprints) or from conveniently holding stuff in the surface. They only make them in #&+# stainless steel because it's "fashionable". So #&+ the fashion of stainless steel.
I didn’t say it’s a scam. I said it’s a really bad design choice, that somehow has become the default finish, despite being objectively worse than like most every other finish available.
Until I saw this thread, I had no idea that an appliance with a stainless steel covering wouldn’t hold a magnet. I mean, it’s stainless steel, right?
So I went looking, and found that if the nickel content is too high, it really won’t hold a magnet. Learned something new.
And, puzzlegal, I also found an article with suggestions. I dunno if it will help, but I offer it in hope.
ETA: The above article says the problem is if the nickel content is too high. But this article, linked to from the first, says the problem is caused by nickel content being too low. Damned if I know. But I suspect the suggestions will work, even if the writers don’t know why the stainless steel isn’t magnetic.
