Oh my goodness! I have never seen such a thing.

Perfection!! haha

That is hysterical! I'll have to watch for a washer with a Tomato cycle when we replace ours, which will be sometime before Tim retires, but hopefully not anytime soon. Wait till I show your photo to Tim! He won't believe his eyes.

OH WAIT!!!! THERE'S MORE! An ethernet port. There's an App for that apparently. True story. I also got a double oven range with convection!! I'm just waiting for Rosie the Robot to come live with me......ha!!!!!

That is awesome. I need that for the dirt cycle for sure

Paula, That washer may be too high tech for me. ha ha

If you find Rosie the Robot we want to know who is selling her and how much she costs, and we all would would Rosie the Gardening Robot who also would pull weeds.

Kim, I am afraid most of us would wear out the dirt cycle. Oh, and likely the tomato and grass cycle as well. I know some days I come indoors with my clothing covered in dirt, grass or tomato plant stains, tomato or peach juice from eating fresh fruit in the garden with the warm juice running down my chin, etc. Which cycle would a person choose in that case?

Some appliances are getting too smart nowadays.

Dawn

That's so funny!

And on some days how would you know which stain pretreat to use?

Exactly Kim. My white t-shirts that I often wear while working in the garden don't stay clean and white for long, and pants, shorts, socks and shoes are just about as hopeless. I use tons of bleach during gardening season, and ruin more clothes with stains that won't come out than I care to think about. I'd still rather be in the garden, dripping from head to toe with sweat and fruit juice, than anywhere else.

I don't use the features I've got, and my washer is old! LOL.

Mine is fairly old and the ones they sell nowadays are much fancier. I like keeping it simple, but I'm not sure there's any models that the manufacturers keep simple any more. I looked at some when we were buying the new kitchen appliances, and I think they look beautiful but they have tons more features than I'll ever use.

An ethernet port. On a washing machine. lol

I had to buy a new washer last year. ( My previous one was only 10 years old and had less use than the one I bought when my daughter was a baby which lasted over 25 years. But that is another complaint.) I bought one, brought it home and learned that it wouldn't put pure hot water into the tub on the "hot" cycle. Called and had it returned and was told that this was due to EPA regulations designed to save energy. I ended up buying a Speed Queen that was rated commercial to get around that. It has an energy saving cycle if I want to use it, but the "hot" cycle puts in only hot water. Country people need washing machines that wash HOT.

My washer is about ready to blow up and it's only two years old. When it does die, I am going to buy a Speed Queen. They are the best!!!!

When my mother moved 3 years ago she insisted she needed a new washer. Jokes on her, she hates the new one. It is one of the safety locking types and when she pauses it to add something it drains all the water out. It makes her so mad. I never say I told you so

What a good daughter ;) Kim. I had one that ripped all the loose buttons off our clothes. When I went looking for a new one, they didn't even remember the style of that machine...that I bought as state of the art. It didn't last long.

Dorothy, All the EPA rules to make washing machines and dishwashers use less energy have just about ruined them. It takes dish washers an eternity to dry dishes now, for example, because the manufacturers have replaced one big motor with multiple small motors to save electricity. Those small motors don't have the power to do the job well. I learned this from the repair guy who was here to repair our brand new washer that did not work at all on Day 1 when it was installed. Aparently the main control board and everything else electronic inside of it didn't work. By the time he replaced all the electronics inside of it, the parts had cost as much as the dishwasher cost when we bought it. It didn't cost us a cent because it obviously was under warranty, but it was aggravating.

I agree that country people need true hot water cycles, not lukewarm water cycles.

I became aware of the hot water issue with clothes washers when researching washers and dryers on the Laundry Forum here at GW, and was shocked to learn that hot isn't hot any more. Our next washer will have the built-in water heater to help ensure that when we use hot water, we get hot water. It is ridiculous that this is necessary just like it is ridiculous you had to get a commercial model.

Stockergal, They don't make anything to last any more, do they? Old appliance are the best. If I'd known how bad new ones were, I never would have replaced our old washer and dryer about 8 years ago. We would have just kept on repairing them forever. It is ridiculous that your two-year-old washing machine is trying to die already. I expect ours to go any time. Our repair guy (who works for a very large repair firm that does warranty work/extended warranty work for virtually all appliance manufacturers) told me late last month that the washers and dryers made now last about 10 years and no longer, and that is if you don't get a lemon. Sounds like your machine owes you 8 more years of service that you're not likely to get.

Kim, You are a good daughter for not saying I told you so. I hate a lot of the features on this new machines. I don't care how many features a new machine has if those features make it harder to use instead of simpler. My mom's clothes washer is at least 30 years old, still looks pretty good, works great and doesn't give her any trouble at all. They don't make washers like that any more.

Amy, It is ridiculous, isn't it? I've never heard of a washer tearing buttons off clothing. That must have been incredibly aggravating. With the front loaders there's also endless complaints about them rubbing/tearing tiny holes in clothing, especially cotton t-shirts, often the first time the clothing is washed. Of course, I suspect the problem also has something to do with the quality of clothing sold nowadays not being any better than the quality of appliances.

Paula, I hope you'll keep us posted on your new washer, how well it works and how well you like it. Clearly, we have a crowd of people here who are not necessarily impressed with their own fairly-new washers.

Dawn

I could repair the washer for more than it cost to purchase!!!!! Crazy!!! It sounds like a jet airplane trying to take off, land or maybe blow up.

i will take out the extended warranty on the next one, regardless off the brand.

stockergal, We have totally changed our approach to appliances. We used to buy really nice and fairly expensive (though not extravagant) ones that we felt would hold up....you know, because we didn't mind paying more money for quality appliances.

Ha ha ha! All that quality crap must have died sometime after we moved here in 1999. The last great appliance we bought was the Whirlpool side-by-side refrigerator we bought for this house in 1999 when we first moved here. And, we never bought extended warranties, because those quality appliances never broke down.

Nowadays, we buy a middle-of-the-line appliance that is neither that brand's highest priced one nor lowest priced one and we buy the extended warranty because you never know if the newly-installed appliance is going to work well or work at all or whatever. They do not make things like they used to, that's for sure.

So many appliance companies have changed hands as bigger companies have swallowed up smaller ones that nowadays the name on an appliance means nothing....when you buy a Whirlpool-badged refrigerator, it likely was made by Whirlpool, but you also can buy the exact same fridge---identical in size and appearance if not in model number----sold under the Ikea line or Kenmore or whatever. Amana? Once owned by Maytag, now owned by Whirlpool. Maytag? I guess it once was its own company, but now it is owned by Whirlpool.

A lot of the different appliances sold in a store under various names actually are just about identical and come from the same factory but are sold under different brand names. It can be maddening! Want to buy a Kenmore appliance? Okay, fine, but there is no Kenmore corporation making Kenmore appliances in a Kenmore factory. So, when you buy a Kenmore appliance, it could have been made by GE, Whirlpool, Panasonic, Mabe Mexico, Bosch, LG, Sanyo or Electrolux.

Appliance shopping now officially makes me crazy. I just want to walk into a store and choose an appliance that fits the space available, looks decent and WORKS. I want one that will continue working and one that won't have to have a repair made after installation because you discover it doesn't work at all even though it is brand new. I want one that won't break down two weeks, two months or two years after we bought it. Is that too much to ask? Well, based on recent events and stories from folks here, maybe it is too much to ask.

I dread the day we have to replace our washing machine and dryer. There's too many models sold under too many different names with too many different kinds of cycles and too many bells and whistles. I just want something simple that works, and increasingly, appliances like that are hard to find.

Dawn

I forgot to say I have my mom's old washer she had 3 washers ago still working..... we don't mention that either. : )

Ha ha ha! I've arrived at the conclusion that old appliances are superior to newer ones most of the time. You are smart to not remind your mom that her old appliance is working well for you.

The Whirlpool refrigerator we replace several years ago because it was "old" (it was about 15 years old) and we wanted a new one (which is the 3-year-old fridge we just replaced a couple of months ago because it was a piece of junk) is still working just fine out in the garage as the extra fridge. It works fine, year-round, and has no trouble keeping frozen food frozen and refrigerated food cold even in the hottest summer weather even though it is not in a climate-controlled environment. When it became apparent to us that another refrigerator repair would be costly and wouldn't even guarantee the kitchen fridge would work right again back in November, I seriously considered moving the old Whirlpool back into the house. I would have done it too, except for the fact that the plastic parts like the door handles and the white plastic framing thing around the ice/water dispenser had yellowed very badly and looked horrible, that old Whirlpool still would be in our kitchen right now instead of out in the garage. I even considered painting it gray and moving it back into the kitchen, but I wasn't convinced the appliance paint would stick to the plastic parts of the fridge's exterior as well as it would adhere to the metal skin. The new Whirlpool fridge in the kitchen, except for the fact that it is stainless steel instead of being white, is almost identical to the old fridge in the garage. Same size, same layout of shelves and bins, etc. I figured if that now almost 19 year old fridge was any example to go by, then a new Whirlpool was suit us just fine, and so far it has.

I'm convinced that older appliances are better. The new ones come with all sorts of bells and whistles, but they don't last for 20 or 30 years like the old ones do. A guy who works with Tim bought a very pricey fridge about 15 months ago. It died after a year (and he hadn't bought the extended warranty) so while he was Christmas shopping, he also was refrigerator shopping---not by choice, of course. He bought the extended warranty this time too.

Here you go, Dawn: https://www.lehmans.com/product/lehmans-own-laundry-hand-washer-with-wringer/laundry-supplies

LOL. I actually buy some of my canning supplies from Lehman's and have their catalog sitting on my coffee table right now. Their washing machine that you linked, though, is a bit too old school for me!