Is this one of those American things, or am I just ignorant?
I’ve never changed, or heard about changing a water filter in the fridge 🤔😵💫 sounds like I’m living a unclean life…
It really is weird. I guess from other comments that this is something about those fancy and expensive fridges that no normal people have with water dispenser on the door and ice sometimes… Maybe?
At least 50% of American fridges do indeed have ice and filtered water dispensers built in and I think they’re great :) ice cold, delicious water any time of the day? Yes please.
They’re not even that “fancy/expensive” as it’s fairly standard
if i want cold water, i just let the tap water run for a bit and drink that. granted, its not ice cold, but do you really need it to be freezingly cold?
Honestly, yes. Frigid water is extremely tasty
look at mr. freeze over there 😎
The water in my sink only gets lukewarm at the coldest.
It gets pretty much ice cold where I live. It’s nice
The last time I got a fridge I bought the cheapest one it could find. It dispensed water but did not have an ice maker.
ice cold, delicious water any time of the day
I just turn the tap to cold for that
Wait…mnot only do y’all not have garbage disposers; you don’t have refrigerators with built in ice machines and water filters? That’s crazy. You you’re just stuck having to get ice from those little refillable trays?
Does your fridge have plumbing + a water/ice dispenser in the door?
A regular fridge obviously wouldn’t need cleaning of parts it doesn’t have.
Ooooh that makes sende. No my fidge doesn’t, and I’ve never seen that IRL. It looks useful, when I want ice cubes I need to manually fill an ice tray/bag and put that in the freezer.
I had no idea some countries didn’t have ice machines as a pretty much standard option. It’d be hard to even find a house built in the past 25 years that wasn’t pre-plumbed for a waterline for the fridge. I never really thought about it, before.
Some fridges have a water/ice dispenser built into the door. Not all American fridges have it and it’s available in other markets too.
Ever watch Red Dwarf? That was Lister and Rimmer’s job.
US people have a fetish about ice cold drinks that’s not very common outside of their country.
Like “the brits drink warm beer (6° instead of -2°), what kind of prehistoric shit is that⸘”
“There’s this light on the front of my fridge. It’s some kind of error thing, it says ‘replace water filter?’ Why should a water filter only last six months. That’s ridiculous. My last refrigerator never did this. I paid a lot of money for this appliance and I feel it’s really unfair that you’re trying to tell me I’m somehow responsible for this. This is unacceptable. When can I expect delivery of my new refrigerator? You have to understand I’m not a technical person, I should not be asked to mess with this myself. I am absolutely not paying for a technician visit for this. This refrigerator is clearly defective and I want a new one. What do you mean consumables are not covered by warranty? What is a consumable? No, that is unacceptable. If you don’t deliver a new refrigerator to me right away I am going to charge back my credit card. I am very disappointed in this purchase and your company’s performance.”
You are bringing back bad retail days memories lol
I rented a place that had one of these. It’s just another thing to forget about maintaining.
A huge percentage of my life I’ve spent working outdoors in remote settings, drinking water from plastic jugs or bags. Maybe that means I’m just wired differently but I don’t really understand the desire to have chilled water in the first place.
Why would I need a water filter or drink water directly from a fridge?
These are questions AI can answer
Chatgpt:
Using a water filter ensures that the water you consume is free from impurities, contaminants, and unpleasant tastes or odors. Drinking water directly from a fridge with a built-in water dispenser provides convenience and often includes filtration to improve water quality. It’s all about ensuring you have access to clean, refreshing water easily.
Sounds like something you would need in a third world country.
Exactly. For further evidence, see our healthcare funding system
Damn, people on Lemmy get weird when you have something slightly nice in your house now?
Hey Skelly, when’s the last time you cleaned your dishwasher filter? And replaced your HVAC filter?
But… Do you really?
How much does a fridge filter actually filter? I am perfectly fine with drinking out of the tap, and the fridge is just filtering the tap water…
To me it just seems like a cash grab.
Then use no filter but never never let the accumulated bacteria inside the filter fester for too long.
Emphatically, without question, YES the filter needs to be replaced and the lines need to be cleaned out regularly. You should try cleaning out the underside of your taps sometimes, too. Water == life, and not just ours, so things grow in it.
Augh. Makes me think of the time I discovered nobody had ever cleaned the Keurig at work… I’ll never forget when I wiped down the inside of the water tank and discovered the plastic was clear, not frosted gray like I originally thought 🤢
This reminded me to change my filter last night and stop ignoring the red light that has been on for 3 months lol. Thanks.
My fridge doesn’t dispense water but the filter I have in the fridge has a handy little timer for the filter replacement (it’s literally just an alarm that goes off in 60 day intervals).
