I respectfully disagree about the dishwasher feature. Our energy provider lowers its rates after 9 p.m. I load my dishes throughout the day. There have many times I forgot to turn on the dishwasher after 9 p.m.

Another fantastic video with no-nonsense advice! I've always thought of it the same way: the more gimmicky, the more the cost is. Which means more costly repairs. Give me the "plain Janes" and stronger builds any day! And that includes my car.

I have a very low power fridge and it cannot tolerate lots of opening and closing of the doors. It would not be great for a family with lots of kids for that reason. It costs about $4.50 a month to operate, which is good. I'd love it if it had a glass door .. so I could see what I may need from the store without leaving open the door. The knock to turn on the light thing ... not necessary, but the glass door is a winner!

My husband says I always fall for the gimmicks 😂lol

I like a light button on the dryer because sometimes I like to find certain things that I need right away or when I’m grabbing and folding right out of the dryer I can see what I’m grabbing. I do find myself turning it back on when it times out, so I know that I do prefer it.

You deliver great topics and content but you are also a great presenter and storyteller. Your company should give you a big raise because I would buy appliances from your company just because I have found your videos useful and helpful. Thanks for making the videos lighthearted and fun.

You sir are infotainement gold. Expert advice with great comic delivery and easy to understand. Im recommending your videos to everyone I can if they'll take my unsolicited advice 😂. You could have your own Late night comedy show. Would be much better than the current late nights hosts that got back from the strike😂

Agree on most of them. But start timer if useful for those have electric time of use plan (off peak hours), it save $ on monthly bill. And light on washer/dryer is useful to check if the clothes are all tangles up so you can pause and fix them.

Remote Start is nice for Dishes to not soak in the water after finishing, and for meals to be hot and ready when coming home.

I have a cheapo LG with knock to see thru door and my use case is 6 and 8yo kids. I put all the fruit, yogurt, string cheese and such in there and they can knock and ask "can I have a...?" I did not spring for door in door crazy $$$ options. Sometimes my answer to kids is "If you can see it - Yes!" I do like the craft ice, though I don't really use it, and I know ice makers are the fail point.

my washing machine has selections for different types of stains🙄 at most it can agitate your clothes a little longer/harder grass,wine,grease but it's great for sales people🙂

I use the light buttons on the washer and dryer to clean the lint and gasket. Wow, so gimmicky 😂

We could really need that bottle washer feature. But we live on a dairy farm and use and reuse glass bottles to store the milk at home.

Totally!! The refrigerator 😂

I used my microwave for cooking so I do use most of the features I have on mine - didn’t realize a lot of ppl don’t cook with their microwave But yes, totally agree - more features are a waste of money if you don’t use them - a lot of times, it’s just more to break

Having a smart washing machine let's you start a cycle when energy prices are low provided you have the right power provider. Good way to use renewable energy when there is a surplus.

FYI: I like the light on the dryer to see the clothes as I’m taking them out. It will go off as I am taking them out so I have to turn it on. I fold as I take the clothes out.

the light on the dryer is for finding socks.

@6:25 I would think that knocking on the fridge to reveal its contents is very useful. Because I have seen many people just open the door wide and stare at the insides for ages (like we saw the lady in the ad doing), to see what exactly there is and where and also to decide what to pull out. Not only that, very often, after the ages it takes to just survey what is inside, we pull out an item, close the door and then realize that in our hurry to shut it, we got the wrong item out or change our mind, then we have to open the door again. This happens several times every day and it's a HUGE waste of energy. Whereas if we can take our time and have a good looksie before opening the door, it would be a huge saving of energy. So, this feature is a winner, for me, as also the light in the dryer. But yeah, otherwise, I agree, we have to beware ending up paying for all the useless, gimmicky stuff put there only to be used as a selling point by the manufacturer and of no relevance to our needs.

Great video. My Speed Queen TR 7 has more than enough choices for me. 90 percent of the time I used the timed dry feature on the dryer. That's it. They are great BTW, if you can swing it worth the extra $$$. Paying for quality not "toys".

The window is the fridge door is super gimicky. The down side is it’s a window which has far less insulation than a solid door especially if there’s a window nearby shining light right on your food.

Really appreciate this info. Thanks!

I have that kind of LG fridge. though the window opens

Start timers and remote start are pretty useful for preheating an oven so it's ready when you get home.

Couldn't agree more. If appliances were built to last then you need to find some way to entice (trick?) people into buying something new. Wifi in appliances is really silly. Software/firmware updates and possible status or human-readable diagnostic info seem like the only reasonable use cases -then again, if there's that much "smart" features that allow for updates then we are already in gimmicky territory. There's no blooming way I am going to remote start devices that are going to burn stuff or turn on water lines.

I like the bottle wash as we use it for washing parts of a milking machine that are hard to get to.

Thx!

Couldn't agree with you more!

I understand YOU may not use some of these features, but we really appreciate the bottle wash feature on our GE. It really gets into our tall stainless steel workout bottles that we forgot to open for awhile...yuck!! The powder mixes and such can start to grow things!! LOL!!

The knock-for-light on the fridge might be useful if you have teenagers that open the door and stand there for 20 minutes looking inside to decide what they want. Sure they have to open the fridge to get it, but it doesn't take 20 minutes to take it out.

Yeah cause we all need each of our appliances to be a giant freaking iphone 😂.

Delay start on a dishwasher is essential here in AZ. Dinner is over and the dishwasher is full.out expensive electricity ends at 9:00 PM, if you ran the dishwasher at during prime time you will pay twice as much as if you waited.

Thanks for the advice! I take it! I will be more wise to buy. I’m in the process of remodeling and any advices are welcome specially for people like you! Thanks !!!! 🙏 What other dishwasher brand do you recommend?

100% agree. Features that you don't use are money you're spending that isn't going toward reliability. Appliances are more expensive, and less reliable than ever. That's the environmental impact, by the way. It's not energy usage, it's in the waste of land-filling appliances ever few years. If EPA is going to fix that, they need to mandate a 20 year warranty. That would do more for the planet, and our pocketbooks, than the silliness they've done about saving a half gallon of water here or there. Anyway, love your content!

IoT is usefull. If you are not aware may be the utility companies are switching to Dynamic prices (time of use) price signals, in which you have to optimize the usage during off peak hours of pricing at that time IoT smart things will be useful. But you point is really valid.

Do you recommend and wall oven versus regular range? I need to install 220 v in my kitchen or there’s one in the market for 110 v ? What do you recommend? I really dreamed on the wall oven 😊thanks

remote start for the oven. you get a papa murphy's pizza and you can pre heat the oven on your way home. bottle jets are also freaking awesome. i tested mine out and it got plastered on milk and juice out of the bottles and cups. i use the bottle jets on every wash. it also works really well with tupperware and bowls.

Good to see John Oliver back from the WGA strike

Agreed

i actually sometime just want to look in the fridge to see what's inside...

Can you guys do a video on the LG Sidekick washer? They look amazing and beautiful but the reviews seem like hell.

UnLESS they turn that fridge into a dispensing machine then you can knock on it to see whats inside without needing to reach inside to get things out 😂😂😂😎

One fancy feature which I dislike are huge ovens. You'll need much more time and energy to cook simple meals- like pizza, and never use its full capacity.

Hahaha I’m a fan.

I guess I'm one of the unicorns that uses these features. Remote start is great for preheating so when I get home the oven's hot. And we do use the screen on the fridge to uodate the shopping lists, set various cooking timers, mirror the tv in another room, etc.

Hilarious how people talk about speed queen. I repair them all day every day so I've seen it all. The extra money you spend up front is for the extended warranty and believe me you're gonna be seeing a repair guy at some point. Luckily I get a nickel for every time I hear I thought speed queen wasn't supposed to break.

The main reason why I even bothered to connect my heat pump dryer to the IOT app is because the manufacturer (Candy) decided to do a front panel menu system that resembles an Ikea manual - You'd not be able to tell the difference between whites/ coloured/ cotton/ synthetics/ mixed on the selector without actually referencing the manual. An advantage to this is that you can use the smart app to configure the load so you get an estimated time to completion upfront and can plan a grocery run or other house chores around it. Running it from the front panel will only update the timer closer to the end of the cycle because it starts with the assumption of a maximum cycle load. The only reason why I bought it was that it's half the price of the closest competition by price. Ditto for the microwave oven from them - we've had it for years now and my wife still doesn't know how to operate the darn thing because it defaults to Programme mode rather than power/ time mode (again, only cryptic symbols on the front panel). At least their microwave was dirt cheap and we don't use it too often enough to justify the price jump to an LG/ Samsung/ Toshiba. The smarthome feature on my LG washer is much preferred as it integrates with Google Home and gives a notification on the speakers around the house when the wash cycle is done. As with the dryer, the ThinQ app also gives a time indication of the expected completion. Added advantage is also being able to download custom cycles when you've the odd load combination to wash.

My laundry is usually the same stuff and my dishes are usually the same stuff, so I use the same cycles in those machines. I had to special order my fridge to get one without a water or ice dispenser, because wouldn't use it and they're the first thing to cause problems. BTW, they're all plain white appliances.

I have trouble believing your name is Blake when you give such Gil energy.

I prefer old-school appliances with no electronics or computers in them.

A few points - Wi-Fi can make a difference if you have time of use electricity prices. Electricity is not the same price all the time around most of the world. Yes you can use delay start, but you can also use your phone to start the washer/dishwasher whenever the electricity is cheaper. We don't have a wifi connected range but my wife would love to be able to preheat the oven before we get back from work. Why American ovens don't have the broil and bake heating elements work all at once? It is really annoying they don't do that. What does normal/regular cycle mean on a washer? It does not make any sense. European washers don't have such nonsense cycle for example.

Now I know that you need 20 minutes to properly cool off a drink. I’ll rprobably use my phone and set a timer.

I have a big problem with your arguments. you'Re right many machines have different programs and you saying, for what?! - You using 1 or 2 thats all. this is also true. but the usuall program is the all purpose cycling. they basically everything a bit but nothing realy good. If you have stain, you need a stain remove program. you're a office worker?! Well you never will use it anyway. but no company on this earth will produce different product to fit a tiny group of persons. thats why many machines have different things and most of them you won't use it. that ok, trust me. you're a avarage customer you don't have to use every feature of your household machine

People that buy these expensive appliances don’t buy them for the features. Most of them don’t even know how to work them. They buy them, to make those that can’t afford them jealous. And that’s what makes those arrogant people happy. Companies know this, that’s why they make them.

Please check off the the box next to: I just want it to work. Spare me the nonsense...please!

Jealousy is a serious issue for global warming. When a person feels jealous abouts other person then he tries to compete. To compete he exploits resources to earn profits and consume more by those exploiting more resources. Thus increasing global warming.

I can't stand that our LG washing machine has features that are only available via the app. Rinse only? Can't do it via the panel. See 4:06. Got to get out the smartphone and use the app.

I asked a salesperson why a refrigerator had Wi-Fi. “If you’re at the store and don’t know whether you need milk, you can turn on the camera and look for it!” I had to laugh at that thought.