That's a pretty strange criterion for choosing a refrigerator, but whatever.
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I don't think you should be downvoted for this, but I do heavily disagree. A refrigerator is a large wall in your kitchen that 1) occupies eye level, 2) is closed 99.99% of the time, 3) you glance at probably multiple times a day, 4) is usually centrally located, and 5) is typically magnetic. I think it can be a really good organization tool even in an era of smartphones, and while it's not some kind of lone criterion, given two even vaguely similar refrigerators, I'm pretty much always going to take the magnetic one.
Yeah, we moved a couple years ago, and now have a built-in fridge, so it has a wood panel in front of the door. I want my whiteboard back :(
I bet you can get magnetic whiteboard wall material
I placed a "real" small whiteboard in the kitchen. Its not as big and not as well placed as the fridge, but we make do...
Yes! I got one magnetic self-adhesive whiteboard film for my fridge from Aliexpress (because it was impossible to find anything like that locally), and I am pretty happy about it. The magnetism is not that strong, but I use neodynium magnet to compensate for that.
Leaving it here in case you are interested, but I'm sure you can find other alternatives if you search harder than me... https://a.aliexpress.com/_ExyxrXU
i like to pick up a magnet when i travel someplace new so imagine my excitement when my husband and i decided to go on the road in an rv fulltime!!!
the excitement that was gone in an instant when i figured out the fridge in said rv is not magnetic and now i have nowhere to put my freaking magnet collection
you can buy big sheets of that flexy black magnet material and give your fridge a wrap!
i hope someone gives you flowers soon bc you deserve them for changing my life
Well, I do not care about votes and magnets. A fridge should be big enough to keep right amount of food fresh and cool. And that's really what matters to me. I've never understood why people decorate their refrigerators like christmas trees.
It's almost like different people like different things. Don't yuk someone's yum.
You could theoretically rub it aggressively across the surface to see if the finish holds up, too.
In theory you could then throw the magnet at the employee and gain a free fridge
Also helpful when picking out pots and pans and need something that works on induction burners.
Yep, I lost my favorite all-clad skillet thanks to moving to a place that had an induction stove.
I was able to buy a new one eventually, but for a while, I was bereft.
That's a painful loss! But at least I'm sure someone else was happy to get your old pan.
GOD i hate those fucking induction pieces of shit. And the beeping and the hidden buttons and if you put a pan wrong theres more beeping and BEEPING BEEPING BEEPING.
jesus fucking christ give me a normal fucking dial I can operate with a twist of my wristwithout even looking, not whatever deranged failed dystopic bullshit that is! Spilled some water on it? INOPERABLE! BEEP BEEP BEEP! Must dry off and dry your hands before you can change the temperature- THAT'S SAFE!
God I fucking hate capitalism's neurotic perpetual drive to over engineer shit that was already perfectly engineered and worked flawlessly for a hundred years strictly because their fucking stock price is hinged on "innovation" (note: not improvement- innovation, sticking a dildo on top of your car is also innovation, hardly a fucking improvement)
AAAAARRARARFAAHH I HATE EVERYTHING!
if it's an unsafe condition surely you would remove the object on the element before merely turning it down
induction elements offer features that are not possible with hundred year old elements; eg vastly improved efficiency, which is sometimes the critical concern
otherwise i agree, everything is shit
I mean, if they would just give us a knob to turn on and off, I would be much happier with it. I really hate the capacitive touch buttons.
or even if not a knob, just actual individual buttons to turn on and off the different eyes
And it really does cook food almost as well as a gas range, and it boils water incredibly quickly.
So while I definitely understand your rant for the simplicity of things that just work, I do have to give it up. There are a couple of niceties attached to induction stoves.
I used to do the same thing but when I was shopping for CD's
Why?
Its how you shoplift cd's. or at least it was back in the day. There is a metal band usually inside the CD or on the back of the CD which has a magnetic metal strip. Running a strong magnet against that strip was how they would disable the anti-theft device. YOU could achieve the same thing using a strong magnet.
This didn't work or tapes or VHS, because a magnet would destroy the content on the tape.
Oh, I should have caught that. I always wondered how strong the magnet would have to be.
Though, actually, if you're looking for a fridge with a stainless steel finish, being less attracted to magnets is an indicator of higher-quality stainless steel, and you may want to get one that magnets don't stick to.
Low-quality stainless steel will be more attracted to magnets ... and also more likely to rust. But higher quality, more corrosion-resistant stainless steels are typically less attracted to magnets.
Mine isn't :(
Did you find out after you bought it?
It's my parents', so I didn't have much of an opinion until it arrived
I do this with hard drives and other computer components.
Elaborate please
It's a joke. Magnets mess with digital storage components.
Back when we still used HDDs they stored data magnetically and magnets would corruot your entire pc
Yeah I thought this might actually be a pro tip :))
Okay, grandpa