Don’t know nothing 'bout swords but I do know that stainless steel screws are soft not brittle. I used them on my cedar deck and probably stripped the head on 10% of them.
Did you just write or draw on your old fridge?
ETA: My stainless steel fridge holds magnets just fine. If you don’t like it, just return it and get what you want.
It turns out that whether or not stainless steel is magnetic is determined by quantum mechanics! It’s incredibly hard to understand physics, right in your kitchen!
As a minor note, if anyone wants to search the archive for a circa 2002 thread about someone trying to buy a fridge that didn’t have an icemaker, I highly recommend it.
Mine also - to the point where you can’t really tell that it is stainless steel because you can’t see much of the surface.
But it is good to know that if/when we shop for a replacement, I should bring a magnet along to test if it will hold all the crap that is on the current one.
Yeah, a quick internet search showed me that wasn’t going to work. Almost nothing on the market doesn’t have an icemaker.
I think I can remove the icemaker from this one, though. As soon as we finish cleaning the old one, so I can temporarily move all the stuff from the freezer into it, I plan to attack the ice maker. That should buy us a couple of inches in that portion of the freezer. (Neither I nor my husband uses ice enough to want an ice maker. Ice gets nasty if it sits too long, and it takes up space I could use for butter and meat and broth and frozen veggies.
I really was surprised how small the new freezer is – it looks huge from the outside, but there’s probably only 60% of the space we used to have. I guess I should have shopped more carefully, but we never really did much with the freezer in the basement, so I wasn’t too worried. Now we will be doing more with the freezer in the basement…
Thanks. It turns out the side are magnetic. That’s not ideal, but it’s better than nothing, and it means I don’t need to find a new home for my thermometer. Bedawrek pointed me to magnetic tape, and I may buy a roll or two of that, and stick it to the front. It will likely be ugly, and not quite as flexible as being able to drop a magnet anywhere, but I think that will address most of my major concerns.
As the proud owner of a nickel-imbued stainless steel refrigerator, I WELCOME my new blank-faced beer-holding monolithic overlord.
My oven-mitt magnets, beer-opener magnets, magnetized calendar and shopping lists live happily on the side, and I give a jolly wink at the empty frontage as I brew my morning tea and butter my English muffin each day.
If you really have to put a bunch of crap on your refrigerator that you quickly come to ignore because you see it so much then just use tape or gummy removable adhesive. Let’s face it: You put it up and stays there for months and you completely forget about it, so using magnets isn’t really necessary.
Yeah, the fingerprint situation was bothering my gf after we did our kitchen remodel. I got a pair of white gloves from a friend whose hobby is watches. I left the gloves on the counter and put them on any time I opened the fridge. It took my gf three days to notice, but was worth it for the laugh.
Oh, and I fine tuned the leveling feet on the refrigerator so that the door stands open without assistance. Between that and using the recess openining area there are very few prints.
Last time I bought stainless steel, I had to pay a premium for it.
Hey, maybe you get no joy from your child’s old artwork, but I do. Also, the magnets themselves are fun. There’s no joy in sticky putty.
Yeah, I was surprised that the non-stainless options cost more. Less demand, so slower thruput, I’d guess.
While I agree with you in principle, unfortunately there will come a day when the kids have moved out and Mrs Magill and I will say “screw that” to cleaning the homestead. On that day, having a “timeless kitchen” will make selling the old Casa de Magill much easier.
Which is the entire reason to have a fridge. Well, that and it’s a good place to keep the milk.
Some stainless appliances have fingerprint resistance as well. Our Maytag does, and it lets us stick magnets on the front. The previous Kenmore had neither and is now the downstairs beer fridge. FWIW, I would have had to pay extra for the stainless front microwave/range I installed. The black one was $100 less, and shows fingerprints really easily. Go figure.
For notes have you considered something like this?
You stick it on the front of your fridge and now it’s a dry erase board. And it covers up the stainless steel surface that collects all those fingerprints.
I think her major complaint is that the front isn’t magnetic, so a magnetic whiteboard may not help much. Plus if it doesn’t stick, it isn’t going to prevent fingerprints.
Shit, sorry that was the wrong link.
https://amazon.com/Embellish-Whiteboard-Wall-Decal-Sticker/dp/B07F5R5T6G/
That’s what I meant to link to. It’s a film you stick on, like a huge sticker, that covers up the stainless steel surface and turns it into a whiteboard. It is supposed to stick to stainless steel just fine. And as I said it would cover up the fingerprint-prone chrome with something less likely to show prints.
Huh. Magnets work fine on all of my stainless steel appliances. Whirlpool fridge, Frigidaire mini-fridge, Frigidaire range, Maytag dishwasher.
On our stainless steel refrigerator, magnets stick fine to the sides, but not the front. Which, coincidentally, works perfect for us. Keeps a nice uncluttered look in front and allows a few things to be stuck to the sides.