It's not too loud most of the time, but is noticeable when the room is otherwise quiet. I am staring to get used to the sounds made by the cooktop. They are louder when the pan is cold or empty, and the sizzling or bubbling does effectively cover up the tick-buzz rhythm. It also varies depending on what utensil is being, used with cast iron being the quietest. My Calphalon Contemporary Stainless 10" skillet is the noisiest , but a similarly sized Scanpan non-stick makes only moderate noise as does the 3 qt. Calphalon saute' pan. I guess it has to do with resonant frequencies and the physics of the situation. Since I really like the cooking performance, layout, efficiency and easy cleaning of the stove I will learn to live with the sounds it generates. My only other complaint with the unit is the childproof lock. I have no need for a nanny looking over my shoulder making sure I don't do anything dangerous. The unit doesn't even turn on unless there's a appropriately sized magnetic object on top and shuts off if it gets too hot. There are no locks on other types of cooktops. It is annoying to have to wait for the controls to unlock, but I have found that if I put a wet sponge on the "key", it will enable the controls while I do other things. Is there a way to permanently disable the lock feature for us grown-ups?

We have a Bosch 5 burner induction cooktop with the middle burner that is suppose to change from small to large depending on the size pan that you are using. I love everything about this cooktop except that middle burner is a lemon and Bosch just makes us run around in circles and will not work with us. We have paid to have it fixed but it still doesn't. The parts we replaced it with had to be ordered 6 times, because the element is made of very brittle plastic and they send it to you in a flimsy envelope. We paid 2500 for this and chose it for the large burner. The small portion of the middle burner works, but the larger part does not. Because of this, I don't have any large burner. I would buy induction again, but I will never buy a Bosch product again.

Everything kinda eariler each year here too in the PNW. It's been colder this early spring than in some years. But overall the winter is warmer and the plants know it. A global warming like cycle effect. Don't get me wrong, I really kinda like us becoming z9 instead of z8, but the models say our forest trees might burn like happened in CA, clear up to N CA and parts of southern OR. Global warming? Our current President is going to learn more about the effects of this in his new "business" than he ever would have imagined. In fact, he might even have to believe it as he deals with increasing intermittent drought times in Africa as well as CA. San Diego is already currently putting in a large municiple desalination plant! Faster change within a lifetime, rather than over many generations is tough. Human life energy and $ investments get taxed due to faster rates of change and on wrong choices. When it happens slowly civilization can just move correctly in the change direction. Adaptation becomes easier. Less famine, disease cycles that way. (Can you imagine what it'd be like if the US had another "dust bowl" event or Africa's Sahara Desert suddenly positioned towards doubling in size? We were just in dry desert like Baja CA, Mexico for a week. They must pump water like crazy where they live to make the habitat more hospitable. The rest of coastal CA is in trouble if they shift to that climate. Baja can't expand much more on current water supply needs. They would need to add desalination plants and pay that energy cost and environmental effects. There we a lot of Whales there this Feb. It's a natural calfing time due to less food (= less predators) and higher salinity, which floats baby whales better. Higher salinity is caused by higher evaporation rates than up north. If that water goes up into the sky it must later come down, often as storms. Thus, if we extend the salinity effect as far as N CA then we have current 1x storm potential go to eg 3x. More frequent, powerful, extended range storms. The mosquito disease range also moves north with the warmth effects. This would be a great time for your grandkids' future to buy land one growth zone north of you. Now we as gardeners can help. Grow large leafy plants like HYDRANGES and better yet TREES, and BAMBOO that eat CO2. Build wooden structures with them to tie up carbon. This is a good banking system. If we get a mini ice age due to asteroid hit, then we recycle/burn things to make heat, grow mushroone such as oyster mushroom and shiitake, and restore global warming effects this time for benefit. Dark ash can be added to darken snow for heat capture and soil building to make CO2 hungry plants. Anti-global warming front yard (by chance not informed design, our last house). Who needs grass to cut? Labor could go into harvesting wood and handcrafting things to stock pile CO2. Our new yard is sunny, but we are transforming it. Before Six months later Our divisions from the last house and some acquistions give us 80 kinds of hydrangea installed into the new design and 7 types of timber bamboo. We have little land and so just 5 smaller trees we added, including 3 Japanese Maple, a Persimmon and Witch Hazel. Internet photos or sone of our bamboo types. Click photos to expand any condensed images. Phyllostachys nigra "Black Bamboo" Phyllostachys nigra 'Bory "Tiger Bamboo" Phyllostachys nigra 'Henonis "Henon or Blue Bamboo" (thought to be the larger parent type bamboo from which the other nigra varieties mutated from. It starts as a nice tall green bamboo and develops a blue surface powdery film with age.) Phyllostachys vivax 'Aureocaulis' "Golden Vivax Bamboo" Phyllostachys vivax 'Huanwenzhu Inversa' "Kimmel Golden Vivax Bamboo" Phyllostachys atrovaginata "Incense Bamboo" also has edible shoots. Bamboo stands give privacy barriers, add backdrops for our hydrangea and other plants, and are evergreens which helps the yard look great in winter. We like the decorative spent canes for craft and yard uses. These also make edible shoots if tbey excape my root barrier investment. And they can be used to defend against wild dogs and humanZ in time of famine or Zombie attack ... then there's torture potentials too. I'd grow the Incense Bamboo for the fragrant waxy surfaced canes alone or scary looking shoots. These interesting looking shoots are equally useful to detour unknown neighborhood kids from jumping over the fence, thus not incensing me again.

Several weeks after my last hopeful post, HD finally picked up the washer and dryer. It was not without major intervention and speaking with several different people, having to repeat over and over the story. They would promise to call me back but they never would. Weeks would go by and I would have to call them back. It was very stressful because they would never say either way what they were going to do. So it was like being strung along, whereas if they would have just said no, I would have moved on or seen if they would at least fix it. I know if I had been forcefully insistent I could have gotten this done faster but I always try to be respectful to other human beings so I won't hate myself in the end for having been awful!!! It was December when all of this finally took place. There was lots more but in the interest of getting to the point.... I went somewhere else to buy a new W/D because I was too exasperated to go through HD again. I'm sure that this is not typical for HD and that they have many happy customers, as I have been in the past, but I think for right now, it was best to walk away.. for both parties. Although by this time, I think we both must feel like we are part of each other's family! Ironically, I ended up with an LG only because the pump is quiet and the dryer runs quietly. The dryer is very good. I researched endlessly and came to the conclusion that there are very few companies to choose from once you impose your deal breaker limitations. There are things I don't like about this machine, it has a square door which doesn't open flat against itself and it's plastic glass, not real glass and feels cheap. The panel is not backlit so you can't see the settings easily and it doesn't put as much water on the clothes as the Whirlpool did. It's hard to remove the detergent drawer and seems like I always stab my finger trying to release it to remove it to clean and dry off. It's not nearly the glamorous product that the loud drain pump Whirlpool was but it does have a quiet drain pump which is a good thing since it seems to run an awfully lot. I bought it only for the reasons that it is quiet, it has an interior drum light, had positive reviews. After making one humongous laundry trip to a laundromat I was sufficiently humbled to make a decision! I got something that had most every option I was looking for, had good reviews and was in-stock. The in-stock color was the graphite stainless color which I'm not sold on, preferring white, but it's here and this is it! Thanks for listening as I journeyed through this debacle. I may grow to like this machine more and more as time goes by but I am disappointed that my beloved Whirlpool did not work out. It was awesome other than the damage it had and the loud drain pump. Thanks again!