The Death of Durable Appliances

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4.4 • 894 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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0:00.0	Well, now I want to know what's better about $120,000 stove than the one that's like,
0:09.3	Beyonce owns it.
0:10.8	La Corneux.
0:11.5	Of course she does.
0:13.0	It comes in pretty colors.
0:14.4	Is it made of gold?
0:15.4	Actually, yes, it is.
0:16.6	Of course it is.
0:17.6	Yeah.
0:20.5	I'm Christine Sirclicette. I'm Kyra Blackwell. I'm Christine Cyr-Cleset.
0:22.2	I'm Kyra Blackwell.
0:23.5	I'm Rosie Garan, and you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.
0:31.5	This episode is called The Death of Durable Appliances.
0:42.7	Thank you. The Death of Durable Appliances. Hi, Ra.
0:43.5	Christine.
0:44.1	We're the only people in the studio today.
0:45.9	Rosie needs to stop leaving us unsupervised.
0:48.5	Actually, though, Rosie has been dealing with something that we're going to talk about today.
0:52.7	Her refrigerator broke a couple weeks ago and she had to deal with it. That sucked. I think her refrigerator was out for like a week.
0:57.8	Which is so inconvenient. If you have a family, you're trying to cook. Like, what are you supposed to do?
1:02.1	You don't have a fridge. I have honestly heard this from a bunch of people over the last couple of years.
1:06.7	I've had several friends whose refrigerators have just died. They've come home. The fridge is dead.
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