GE Appliances to move washing machine production from China to Kentucky in $490M investment
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Now reengineer them to last longer than 5 years. All the BS government energy regulations has resulted in appliance junk. In the 60s my parents bought a washer and dryer and a refrigerator and they all lasted 20-30 years. No new appliances purchased today won’t make it to 10 years old.
Prior to the government meddling, these were some of the simplest machines made by man. Basically they worked until the materials failed or wore out.
Now it's almost always some damned module that either isn't available, costs more than a new machine, or both.
I think the worst part about it is the huge amount of waste that ends up in landfills or polluting the environment, plus the energy costs to rebuild things every 3 or 4 years when they used to last 20+.
When you start doing the math, the numbers are staggering. Think of each married couple - 40 years ago, they bought one, or maybe two sets of appliances between their 20s and 80s. Now they're buying closer to 12 sets over the same lifetime. And if they were worried about CFCs then they wouldn't build refrigerators that were likely to leak it all out when they were scrapped.
It's the same deal with cars that used to last over 200k and now are lucky to make it to the end of the warranty.
It's amazing to me that the government will obsess over saving something like 50 gallons of gasoline over the life of a vehicle, while ignoring all the plastic, energy and pollution it costs to have to remake the damn thing every 5 years.
And they had more recyclable material in them before the electronic revolution. Some things just don't need the complexity.
I have two appliances that have thus-far bucked that trend. When I moved into my current house in 2020 there were 2 refrigerators left behind. One was manufactured in 2000 and one in 2002. Both run perfectly. I have had to replace a couple of the shelves with the plastic "hooks" that hook onto the backplate when the hooks finally broke off, and one had a latch that holds the doors shut break off. I fixed that with neodymium magnets normally used to hold a cellphone on a car dash.
There is one other example of an appliance still made that will probably last forever as long as you keep the correct parts packed with grease as recommended - the Kitchen-Aid stand mixer. I bought a 6qt "dead one" 4 years ago "for parts". It took me about a week to get the grease in, I packed it as recommended, and it still works perfectly. I always wanted one of those (of course a red one) and couldn't pass on that. Even refurbished they cost ~$250-300. Good ones are $500 or more depending on attachments.
I'm a guy and don't cook much (other than on the smoker or grill). I use this to make batches of my keto pancakes. I put 3 in a bag and freeze them along with 2 small sausage patties. I make a batch of around 150 pancakes (50 bags) at a time and this thing makes it really easy. Then I have about 2 months of microwave-ready breakfast (~2.5 mins) and I use sugar-free Mrs. Butterworths syrup, some whipped topping, and usually some blueberries or blackberries on top. Sometimes I'll skip the syrup, creme, and berries and put a few fried eggs on top if I have the time.
Well worth my time, money, and effort to get that mixer. If you don't know what they are, I'll link one below. I can't find the 6qt mixers anymore (this one is a 5qt @ $479.99).
https://www.amazon.com/KitchenAid-KSM150FEER-Artisan-Bundle-Mixers/dp/B07QJQZWQX
Yum! Your food sounds good! But what sweetener is in Mrs Butterworth's. I only like to use stevia or monk fruit. Going to try and copy you. Sure do miss the old appliances. I have to get a new washing machine. Used is fine and hope to find old whirlpool. Production moving out of China should be better for gen electric too.
Dear Lord, I love my Kitchen Aid. Once worked with a Hobart (commercial arm of the company) and have turned my nose up at anything else ever since.
Look into the attachments that you put on the front power hub. Shave ice, sausages, grinding meat into hamburger (fun fact - it doesn't taste like hamburger, it tastes like steak), sliced diced veggies, juicer. Dang thing does everything. Hint: get an old one that is all metal inside. They last forever.
This this this ...can't agree with you more. I explain this to my pals all the time. It's all a giant scam to get rich.
That's what happened with my washer.
I'm using my Grandparent's Maytag washer & dryer from the 1980's I think because they are Almond shade and I will never get rid of them. We've only had to replace dryer belt. If you can find any from this time period BUY THEM.
My Speed Queen washer and dryer from 1989 still work. I took my sister in law’s fridge back in 1996 for my detached garage, in SE MI for beer and it still works.
Yay! Built to last in America!
1980’s?
I want one of those old Heartland or Elmira Stove Works type ovens from the 1930’s-50’s.
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This countertop trash we have now is for the birds.
That's a beauty! ✨
I have a 48" Viking Range that I waited a lifetime to get AND Made in America!
Nice!! We had an old 50’s/60’s stove in our family at one point before someone decided they wanted something “more modern”. That thing was invincible!
Oh no ...wish you still had it!
Yes...so I can presoak!
Look for a used one ps!
And be able to operate without WiFi.
35 years ago, I had a guy, buttcrack and all, to come fix my Whirlpool fridge. A itty bitty relay failed. He said it was too flimsy. He pulled a giant replacement out and says they usually use these in elevators. That fridge is still humming along.
I came to say this! Amen!
Speaking of washing machines. I switched my detergent from a safe for the planet to Tide and after a month I noticed my clothes were falling apart. Tide destroys your clothes over time.
I use a giant sized bulk detergent from Sam's Club. Cheap and doesn't smell overly perfumed
I believe it...use 20 Muleteam Borax
Top load…. No 1/8 horse motor…. And put the freaking agitator back.
Top load…. No 1/8 horse motor…. And put the freaking agitator back.
As someone who is willing to spend top dollar for quality products made in my own country, I'm happy to see this shit happening.
Great news for American workers, now all we need is a polar shift of north and south poles to tangently go with this reversal of jobs coming back to America , from the East to the West.
Everything is web-enabled and complicated. I don’t want to start my a-pliances with my phone. I don’t want twenty options. Just give me an appliance that WORKS!
On/Off switches... everything basic..No Solid State.
...and no "smart" appliances. I don't want to talk to my toaster oven, and I don't want my refrigerator spying on me.
Correct Wulf!
Yay, fuck chyna.
I continue to buy GE appliances because they work well, last as long as any brand, and are inexpensive to buy and to repair, if that is ever necessary. Workhorses is all I've had from GE. No I don't work for them nor does anyone I know.
You would have loved the old Maytags and Frigidaires.
Still own two that are over 20 years old and repairable if needed.
Yes. I remember when my father was the repairman for cars, trucks and appliances.
We need to repair things again ...no more disposable items!
THINK FELLAS.......WHICH POLATICIANS WERE REPRESENTING Kentucky? Keeping them POOR instead of MAKING A DEAL and doing the right thing for their Sate. Thoughts to live by.
One that stood behind the "Big Lick" horse shows. Abuse legalized.
And all the BUZZWORD fags yelled BINGO!
Can they make them last 30 years again? Let's get rid of the scheme "Planned Obsolescence"! We aren't the ones polluting the landfills.
They could if they wanted to...🤬
this building of theirs looks exactly like foster Georgia guidestones
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That no other president even considered using access to the U.S. market a economic leverage in trade policy pisses me off.
The power was available to them the entire time.
They moved out to China, are they moving back?
I bought a ge window AC a couple weeks ago. It was $50 more than Walmart or Amazon sold China brand ones. It's way lighter than the broken one I replaced and it cools like crap. I feel like they ripped me off
The appliances still belong to the Chinese. GE sold their appliance business to them.
Then lets start a new one. I want my clothes clean and I want it done in under an hour.