This thread is a bit old. However, the complaints about Miele are still valid. I have been a loyal Miele customer for 13 years. I recently spent well over $30,000 on new appliances in my current primary residence. I regret it. While in the process of that recent kitchen renovation, a Miele induction cooktop in a second home has failed. The appliance is out of warranty. Miele customer service for out of warranty appliances is essentially nonexistent. They use bots on their website for the chat function. Their replies to emails appear to be written by bots. No one at their customer service phone number can help other than submit a technician visit, which you can do on the website. If you do not live in a major metropolitan area (NYC, LA, Chicago, etc.) there are not adequate competent service technicians available to help you. Local appliance retailers will not help at all if you did not purchase the item from them, so good luck if your retailer no longer sells Miele. Several retailers have stopped selling ?miele due to the poor customer service Miele provides. If you do happen find a competent technician. That person will be booked up for weeks. If you are a capable do-it-yourselver, you may be able to diagnose some problems after getting a hold of the technical manuals. But then, you will spend hundreds to thousands of dollars and still have an inoperable appliance. I am currently out more than $1400 for parts and still don’t have a functioning cooktop—not since July 2022. If you decide to just go ahead and replace the broken cooktop with the current model, you may find that the cutout dimensions have changed. Do yourself a favor and don’t buy Miele. They are great when they work and their performance is amazing. That said, in retrospect, the cost and problems with maintenance and repair are not worth it. Customer service is appalling.

Never throw away things that doesnt belong to you or both of you haven't agree on. I am not a hoarder and I keep my house pretty well organized. My husband is a control freak and wants to control everything. Long time ago I bought 2 patio chairs. He asked me if he can give them to his friend Bryan and I asked him why I should give his friend my chairs? He answered that we were planning to move and we will be buying new chairs. I firmly said NO!. I realized that the chairs were very close to the edge of our desk and when I was about to move them closer to the house he yelled at me asking me to let them were he put them. Two days after that the chairs disappeared. I asked him if he gave them to Bryan and he said no that he thought someone stole them. I start looking in the area and when looking at my neighbor's desk I saw what it seems to be my green chairs. A man that I don't recognized was painting them in red. I realized my husband never intended to give my chairs to his friend but to our "friendly" single woman which by the way I didn't want to do anything with her because her reputation of being super "friendly". In a second occasion he gave my extra pillows to his friend just because he thought I have too many pillows and he wanted to help him. He gave the pillows to him after I told him the extra pillows are for when we have visitors. By the way his friend is a millionaire that chooses to live humbly in order to keep accumulating money. I told him not to give the extra pillows to him but one day I was looking for them and they were gone! I was infuriated and started to realized that if my husband doesn't respect my things he doesn't respect me either. If he give them away even after telling him not to give them away the message he is sending me is..."I don't care what you said and I don't care if I hurt you, I rather make my friends happy than you". Recently we bought new chairs for the dinning room. He wanted to throw away the old ones but I found the old ones to be more comfortable that the new ones and I found a place for 2 of them in his office, one in our bedroom and another one in the second bedroom. I want to emphasize that it was plenty of space for the chairs in all the rooms. I put the one for the second bedroom in the garage because my mom uses wheelchair. He took advantage that my mom was with us and I was busy all day long 7 days a week to put the chair in the van and give it away to someone I know. If the chair being in the garage bothers him more that hurting my feelings then is clear he doesn't feel any respect for me. Please people unless your partner is a hoarder is not worth to destroy your relationship with your spouse over material things. Things can always be replaced but once you loose trust in your spouse that is very difficult to gain back! (P.S. Pardon my grammar English is my second language)

I've compiled a list of foods from various classes I've attended on home food storage, web sites on the subject, like Millennium Ark, and general snippets of "odd knowledge" about foods that have an indefinite (or nearly so - 20-30 years) shelf-life. They do, however, require proper storage, which means avoiding HEAT, LIGHT, MOISTURE, OXYGEN, and INSECT INFESTATION, in most cases. -Ghee -Tomato powder -Instant coffee -Most dry pastas (30-years, except those with lots of eggs - like egg noodles) -Dried corn, soy, wheat, white rice (20 to 30-years) -Salt (iodized salt may turn slightly yellow, but is safe to consume) -Most bouillons (powdered) -Mayonnaise (unopened) - this one, I admit, was surprising -Lentils, chia seeds -Vanilla (real) -White vinegar -Cornstarch -Honey, maple syrup, corn syrup, agave nectar, sugar, brown sugar -Powdered coffee creamer (non-dairy) -Gelatin powder (sealed envelopes or sealed canisters) -Non-fat dry milk powder (hermetically sealed in #10 cans - 20-years) -Dry potato flakes (hermetically sealed) -Rolled oats (hermetically sealed, 20-years) -Dried apple slices (hermetically sealed, 30-years)

Yes, though I wouldn't be surprised if almost everyone who gets a pH meter eventually sticks it in distilled water to see if the pH of their distilled water really is 7. Perhaps motivated by curiosity or suspicions of the labeling of the product. My meter came with small amounts of calibration solutions. The instructions that came with it suggested storing the sensor in tap water, assuming the tap water has enough ions. Though, later I bought larger amounts of calibration solution plus official probe storage solution. Mine came in liquid form. I didn't think to look for packets of dried chemicals which probably cost less and store better. I realize the storage solution is basically salt water but seemed like it needed to be a very specific concentration of salt water. Mainly, I got the pH meter for use with attempting to do plant tissue culture or starting seeds in-vitro. Having the growth media at the right pH is important. At first I tried using pH test strips but had some doubts about using those. The meter has been useful for occasionally testing soil pH, too. However, I suspect that some of the grittier things I've tested that gave me a reading of about 8.1 might actually not be that alkaline and don't have ions to be sensed by the meter.