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SMEG โ€“ Italyโ€™s Most Recognisable Appliances (fedia.io)
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[โ€“] Gnugit@aussie.zone 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm a chef and work in a kitchen sponsored by Smeg. There is no way in hell I would ever buy this trash. The designers have never cleaned a thing in their life and it shows in the products, they are a nightmare to keep clean. The small gadgets are also all cheap plastic and the designs also reflect the engineer's lack of cleaning experience. All the designs of the gadgets also include these little gimmicks that you need to keep track of or the whole thing is rendered useless.

None of the stuff is dishwasher safe either excluding the oven racks and stove trivets so it all needs to be washed by hand.

Fuck Smeg and fuck their engineering/design team.

[โ€“] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 4 points 6 days ago

I have heard that outside of trash Samsung fridges, smeg often has some of the highest rates of failure (this was 5-10 years ago that I read that report though)