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 π€π΅βπ« sounds like I'm living a unclean life..
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ummm... What water filter?
Yβknow, the one that adds that moldy flavor to the water and ice.
I don't usually lick the ice buildup off the back of the fridge, but I'll keep it in mind if I ever choose to.
lol Your fridge doesnβt have a filter if it doesnβt have an ice maker or water dispenser.
I don't usually lick the ice buildup off the back of the fridge
Me neither. That's a "sometimes treat", to quote Cookie Monster betraying everything he ever believed in and indeed was.
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Water from your ... fridge?
In our country we have faucets. You can get cold water, hot water or mix it with knobs on spout.
Or you mean the waste water from ice build-up ?? Oh, now it kind of makes sense....
North America, particularly 1990-2010, fridges with a water dispenser and ice maker built in were/are pretty common. 3 of the 5 houses I lived in as a kid had one.
Filtered, colder-than-tap water, and effectively unlimited ice without having to screw around with ice cube trays. Some also provide heated water that's far cleaner than what comes out of a typical hot water tank, but that feature is rare in my experience.
They have a filter in the water inlet, and should be cleaned inside/out roughly every 6 months (that part is neglected more often than not).
Having an automatic ice maker in the freezer is pretty awesome. then if you have water running to your fridge you may as well have a chilled water dispenser.
I don't really care for fridge water but some people like very cold water and the tap isn't always that cold.
These fridges provide ~4c filtered water and some provide ice. A few even provide two different sizes of ice.
I think I have one of those ice cube trays in my freezer. The last time I used any was probably 3ish months ago or so? I this this about sums up the need I can see in a fridge that has a tap connection to provide ice...
~~Need~~ Want.
Everyone's different.
My mother empties and refills the 4 trays in her freezer daily.
"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
As if its the most natural thing for a fridge to have a water or ice dispenser .
Nobody that i know have these and the one that i have seen at a random person, they never used it!
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This comment thread is a clash highlighting the ridiculous lengths we humans go under capitalism to get/normalize completely unnecessary luxury items
I replace the water filters the way I wash my legs: I don't.
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 π€’
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Damn, people on Lemmy get weird when you have something slightly nice in your house now?
Why would I need a water filter or drink water directly from a fridge?
The water is cold all the time. It's nice. My mom's has it. One day, I too will hopefully join the upper echelon of cold water having fridge people.
My tap water is cold as well
It can filter out some of the shitty things municipal/rural water has in it.
Edit. Iβm seeing a different post of yours. There are SO many places in America where you should not drink the tap water.
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You drink less if the water is cold.
Western people drink too less water on average.
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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.
We have a whole house water filter so the fridge one is redundant. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that in our fridge when you remove the filter it the water path just goes into a bypass mode. So we are filterless in the fridge (because we filter elsewhere) and don't need the filter nag from the fridge.
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This reminded me to change my filter last night and stop ignoring the red light that has been on for 3 months lol. Thanks.
Hey Skelly, when's the last time you cleaned your dishwasher filter? And replaced your HVAC filter?
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