I’m okay with appliance making cute little dings or buzzes but if they chime out a full song it creeps me right out. I’m gonna get the clothes out of the wash you don’t have to scream “Mary had a Little Lamb” at me.
Everytime my new washing machine’s done it’s like somebody opens a musical Christmas card. Why can’t it just buzz like a decent appliance.
I hope even more start doing that. Just for you.
My current dryer has an annoying tone for everything. Change mode? Gotta beep as you click passed each one! Oh, you wanna adjust the time and heat? We’ll make it chime with every increment instead of just when the button is pressed! Clothes done? Song of my people! Opened the door? Second verse!
Samsung? We got one used and it’s great for the drying part, but when I went to research how to change the “melody”, and I’m being generous here, to a chime or something else…nope. You get that, or silence. So we use silence and listen for the sound of it stopping. That song is terrible, and for there to be no options at all in a modern appliance…why was this a good idea on the drawing board?
My hot water boiler / warmer loudly plays Fur Elise for 10 or more seconds after it has brought a fresh tank to boil. Most of the time I don’t care, but at 6:30 in the morning its loud I worry about waking people even with closed doors.
Hold the unlock button for for 3 seconds and it will change the song to 3 beeps. Do it again to mute it.
Shoot some Great Stuff into the speaker hole. (Not really, no, don’t do this with something that heats up).
You could open it up, find the little speaker (probably a tiny little thing) and disconnect it or put some glue in it (like Goop).
I actually really like that the washing machine and my makita charger do those noises just because I’ve never heard appliances do musical stuff before and think it’s really cool. BUUUUT:
I would totally hate it if anything.* aaaanything at allllll* in the kitchen were to make music the same way. Microwaves – and the oven – and the pressure cooker – are already extremely loud and obnoxious as they are.
The washing machine and battery charger are somehow fine just because I don’t associate them with the kitchen appliances I grew up being screamed-at by. The whole ‘conditioned to be annoyed by X but when Y does it it’s fine’ thing
Agreed, about keeping more goofy songs out of the kitchen.
But I’ll make an exception for my egg cooker.
My egg cooker beeps the equivalent beep to “I will fucking kill you all. Also these eggs are done. Seriously though, if I weren’t just an egg cooker, I would stab you right in the eye.”
I would trade that beep for pretty much any other sound, even a goofy song.
