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AmandaI saw this advert from 1956 on Instagram and can’t work out how a fridge from nearly 70 years ago basically has better features than the fridge I own now.
EVHaste@Pandamoanimum I feel like I would buy anything sold to me with this cadence.
🇪🇺 Paul Schoonhoven 🍋🍉now I want the late 50s back!
Steven Hilton@vosje62 @Pandamoanimum @fietsria
MAKE FRIDGES GREAT AGAIN 😆
SamuelJohnson@vosje62 @Pandamoanimum @fietsria with Ozone layer destroying freon refrigerant? Hopefully not.
But, yes, some modern fridge features are insane.
A camera inside so you can check on the contents while shopping eg.
Slightly less mad: a door that turns transparent when tapped on.
⁂Krafty⁂ #NoKings@samueljohnson @vosje62 @Pandamoanimum @fietsria Can you imagine a fridge built with modern tech but without all the "modern" garbage companies out into them these days and instead built with *actual* features like the ones from the 50s?
Phil Landmeier@vosje62 @Pandamoanimum @fietsria I suspect you'd be very happy with the late 50s. I remember the late 50s, early 60s, and would turn the clock back in a heartbeat if I could.
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@Pandamoanimum One word: capitalism. 🤷
fedithom@Pandamoanimum looks awesome. Thing is, producing crappy, cookie-cutter, uninspired, overpriced junk that falls apart within 5 years (generously speaking) pays more to the shareholders. That's how we got from there to here.
Philip Johansson 🏴☠️💜@Pandamoanimum Most people don't want a fridge that requires reading a manual just to put the food in.
Cyber Yuki@philip @Pandamoanimum Meanwhile, the TV remote control:
Flop_Ysh@philip @Pandamoanimum that why they simply put pictures of the intended content on the doors and shelves now days
Barbara E Bj@Pandamoanimum , Those look great, but were too expensive for anyone to actually buy back then. THERE were other really expensive REALLY nice fridges then. The expense for the fanciest stuff is still a part of our buying experience. The fancy gets us to the store where a good sales person can rope us into buying something else that is still overpriced, but on payments.
@Pandamoanimum, Same sales tactics with products that don't last as long without needing maintenance. And, every year a new batch of fancy stuff comes out to lure out the ones who didn't see how it really works before... sales people keep their commissions whether you keep paying your bill or not.
Sandcats@Pandamoanimum This ad from 1975 for a built-in toaster … why arent they a thing!!
Evan Jensen@Sandcats @Pandamoanimum my grandmother had one. And a built in steel bread box/drawer. It worked fine, but the cleanup is a weird situation.
KingDead@Sandcats @Pandamoanimum I know it's not the same product, but we do have microwave drawers nowadays that are the same concept.
Kumar Ghosh£52 in 1975!!
@Pandamoanimum @redbanjer damn sizable too, for the time.
Elly@Pandamoanimum same! Where can one acquire such a wondrous piece of innovative equipment? Answer- you can’t! It’s all about the inbuilt obsolescence these days
Dave Fischer
Charles Herold@davefischer @Pandamoanimum that's freaking amazing.
Bluedepth@davefischer @Pandamoanimum Witness peak refrigerator design. I don’t want a camera in the door or a display on it, I don’t want it connected to the doofy Internet. I want lazy-susans for shelves! I don’t want French doors, I don’t want water and ice service. I just want this. Dump the rest of it, just this.
That Megan@davefischer @Pandamoanimum This is genius ❤️
Stephen Dioxide 
@davefischer @Pandamoanimum Why isn't every single refrigerator built this way?!
Amanda Weaver
Piggleston Pecanpants@davefischer @Pandamoanimum I want this. Why isn't this a thing?
EngelMichelman🐸 Antifaschist
elle mundy@Pandamoanimum @briankrebs i bet this thing cost a fortune
Mrs Cloudy
Jelle De Loecker@Pandamoanimum The thing that holds bottles in my fridge door broke off after 4 years because it was made out of crappy thin plastic, so now I don't even have that.
(Also when I put things too close to the back it freezes, no matter how low/high the fridge is set to)
(Also when I put things too close to the back it freezes, no matter how low/high the fridge is set to)
Jim Deibele@skerit @Pandamoanimum We replaced our ancient fridge with a newer, “Energy Star” fridge. It probably saves some energy but it has the same crappy thing plastic retainers which I fixed with packing tape.
Also, the retainers kept popping off so I ended up putting screws into them to keep them in place after the 3rd time we ended up with broken glass and beer or peaches or whatever on the floor.
Mayor of Nerdocrumbesia 🏡I just want that removable vegetable tray thing! That seems like something that should've made it's way to "cheap" refrigerators by now.
LyndeeI want the pull out shelves! That would be an easy add i think.
My fridge has them! It was a "must have" when we bought it. Having grown-up with old metal wire shelves that didn't slide-out my wife and I forget about the sliding shelves. We NEVER use them. 🤷
Whaaaaaat?! I'm so jelly. Next fridge, I'll be looking.
But you don't use them?
No. We forget about them all the time. Decades of pulling everything out to get to the back is just too ingrained I guess.
brandizzi@jchaven @Pandamoanimum Here vegetable drawers are almost always removable (although not as practical as this one, but not that hard to take out either).
Yeah, We have the removable "tub" style drawers. I want that tray-like thing but, not in the door. I think 2 of those trays in-place of 1 of my drawers would be ideal.
Professor Emeritus Blake Y Rat@Pandamoanimum I get it but when you have to defrost a turkey you quickly learn to appreciate a fridge whose interior is one big empty hollow with removeable shelves and nothing else.
Darwin Woodka@blakeyrat @Pandamoanimum maybe you need the turkey defroster and roaster you use once a year. My mom had that.
Ren@Pandamoanimum all the old adverts from the 50s that I've seen seemed to be better designed, better thought out and longer lasting than any of the flimsy, modern rubbish
Alex Chaffeei call it “tech rot”: at first products are designed by engineers to help users, but over time the incentives shift to help businesses owners squeeze out more profits and increase market share and the product quality eventually gets worse than when it first hit the market
fridges, printers, telephones (voice calls), web sites, etc are all objectively worse now than in the late 20th century
DoomsdaysCW@Pandamoanimum And the fridge from1956 probably lasted way longer than the ones made today! #PlannedObsolescence
Kevin Karhan 
@Pandamoanimum it's because it was far more expemsive adjusted for inflation and also used (H-) #CFC's as coolant...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorofluorocarbon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorofluorocarbon
Tom@kkarhan I don’t think it using CFCs as coolant have anything to do with a removable vegetable window and shelves that telescope out towards you.
@tomflack no, but the fact that they were "far more expensive adjusted for inflation" is.
Also you don't want those fridges not just for the CFC coolant, but horrible efficiency and poor insulation.
CharJTF 
(she/her)@Pandamoanimum I really need those pull-out shelves!
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Hiker Geek 🌲💻🌲@Pandamoanimum I'm not sure what are the better features. I have a relatively new frig. No internet. It uses less electricity, likely by far, than that unit. Mine uses modern coolant so overall less impact on warming. Better, more environmental insulation. My frig is easy to clean. The slides on that unit are a cleaning nightmare. A bacteria haven. My produce draw easily can be taken out. For me it is more for cleaning than loading back up. My sink is only 2m from the frig
Cute ad though
@Pandamoanimum That's so cool and useful!
How bad is the electric use on it? Those old appliances may look great and last ages, but power drain on them is harsh from what I remember.
Andrew BennettContemporary, run-of-the-mill units can refrigerate 4 times that volume of food using half the power.
Special places for bottles? That's just a door shelf. And I don't think I've ever seen a fridge without a special place for butter.
The "hydrator" feature? It's called a crisper drawer and you probably have one.
Who wants custom ice cube trays you have to fill and eject yourself when you can have a built-in automatic ice maker?