Owning your own home

I have this one. I can’t remember what the decision making process was but it works. I think I wanted black and arbitrarily expensive and that ticked the boxes. It is cavernous, v handy for reheating lots of square leftover containers.

25 litre capacity - great for small households
25L Capacity - ideal for family households

Make up your mind.

Rangemaster nexus SE.

British made but predictably most of the components aren't.

I've been trying to order a kitchen from ikea for a couple of days, amend order doesn't exist, I can only put my card details in if I use an incognito window, I had to remove each item one by one until I found what was preventing me from choosing a delivery option, it was impossible to get through to customer service, I chose a day to have it delivered and they almost immediately changed the day it was coming and disabled the change delivery day button on their website. I'm hardly holding my breath for the full order actually arriving then.

Lucky its british at least - I just had to cancel a furniture order today which I made in November because I didn't fancy the 40% tax I was going to have to pay

40%? That's just fucking insane.

One without a stupid spinny glass plate.

This was a revelation. Going back is impossible.

I've been trying to work out why the spinny glass plates are so bad, but I'm failing to see it. What's the big advantage in losing the big glass spinny plate? The one in my £20 microwave from Tesco which I bought 10 years or so ago consistently fails to annoy me, and I'm worried my standards are lowering or my levels of tolerance increasing.

Dishwasher timer light on the floor is a total power move

20% + 16% + 2.5%

Makes it harder to clean, init. Also noisy, always popping out of the stupid fixing in the centre that spins it. And if you over fill your soup bowl the cheaper less finessed 'waves will spill your soup when the rotation fires up. Robs you of vertical space and the manufacturers provide the aperture size and not the plate-top to ceiling size, so fuck knows if your rice cooker will go in your diminutive microwave.

Apart from that, fine.

I believe this is what you are after...
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I have this one. I can’t remember what the decision making process was but it works. I think I wanted black and arbitrarily expensive and that ticked the boxes. It is cavernous, v handy for reheating lots of square leftover containers.

Sadly 2cm too tall, I have purchased a Panasonic with (sadly) a spinning plate because it will fit in the gap our kitchen has for it to go in.

Oh fuck.

Was just thinking about this. We've a sofa on order from November, does this mean I'm screwed too? I'm presuming it is coming from Eastern Europe

Only the second best thing in our kitchen. The oven is the tits. Despite retailing at £3k* the clock drifts a few minutes every month. It does have a camera so you can watch your food cook via the app. Never used it.

*did not pay

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We bought ours from a shop based in Berlin - which at the time was fine but now we have to pay for all of the duties...

Think you should be ok if it's a UK company but worth checking. Right shitshow

Our IKEA one beeps when it’s done. Never once wondered how long until the beep.

Oh phew! Spunking cash at the moment so that's a relief.

On another note going down the middle class rabbit hole of replacing the (non) working gas fire with a log burner. Hoping it arrives while we're still in a cold snap. The way 2020 went can guarantee it'll be the hottest Feb on record

Drive to Berlin and pick it up yourself. Remove packaging. Drive back. If customs asks when coming back through the border inform them that you lived in Berlin and are patriotically moving back to blighty in order to claim your blue passport and feast on gammon.

Got to be cheaper than the tax bill.

I had better luck with delivery slots by placing the order in the morning. Tried multiple times to do it in the evening and no slots available, but it seemed they released new slots every morning (or the system was just totally wonky)

Yeah that’s what I’d be doing once all this mess is semi sorted

Is that 2h35?

We just rinse things first and use the 30 minute quick programme on our £250 John Lewis dishwasher.

Washing machine. On which we only ever use the 1:15 cycle. Who washes sheets for four hours at 60 degrees, and more importantly, why?

Makes it harder to clean, init.

It's just a light on the floor, no probs cleaning. Oh, you weren't talking about that.

Ah. Washing machine. Don't think we use anything other than the 1h programme at 40 (whites) or 30 (colours) on that.

People who shat the bed, presumably. Or who have small kids or incontinent pets.

Anyway, I suspect the cost of adding another program is very close to zero, and the risk of missing a sale because your machine has fewer programs-that-will-never-be-used-anyway than the competition is higher than zero.