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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)

[โ€“] lornosaj@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

Canโ€™t imagine having this purely due to the name, I always read it as SMEGma.

[โ€“] reddig33@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wonโ€™t be buying these after watching how poorly they keep items cool on The Great British Baking Show.

[โ€“] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago

To be fair, they were probably not designed to work outside, often with sunlight hitting them directly.

[โ€“] Blackmist@feddit.uk 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)

No Red Dwarf fan would buy this.

I would because I'm a Red Dwarf fan if these Smegheads didn't make it so expensive.

Smeeee. SmeeeeEEEE

[โ€“] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'll never buy these products because the brand just sounds really disgusting as is displayed to prominently.

[โ€“] WALLACE@feddit.uk 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well where else would you store your dick cheese if not in the fridge?

[โ€“] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 days ago

The dick cheese is stored in the balls.

But also, if you cure the dick cheese, you don't need refrigeration.

[โ€“] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If I was in the fancy drink fridge bracket I would probably get one of those clear futuristic looking ones with pretty LEDs

[โ€“] rmuk@feddit.uk 2 points 6 days ago

Those are great for keeping drinks and non-perishables cool in a shady area but absolutely dogshit for food or anywhere with a lot of sunlight.