Electric kettles with plastic parts that touch boiling water, particularly the removable mesh thing. It’s like a microplastic infuser that’s good for about 300 liters, after which it falls apart. Then the kettle doesn’t know when to stop automatically and you can’t buy a replacement mesh piece because they discontinued that model of kettle last year.

I now have a kettle that doesn’t have the funny mesh, but if you don’t open the lid while pouring, the scalding hot water just runs down the side.

The old fridge had condenser coils out in the open and you’d just dust them. The new fridge has them under the unit and I can see quite a bit of dust accumulating on them. But I’ve no clue how to clean them without tipping the entire fridge over.

Also, the newfangled rice cookers. The nonstick coating in them chips off much easier than in regular pots and pans. Then there’s 3 or so gaskets, one of which is impossible to remove without breaking the lid. I really hate cleaning rubber gaskets, especially if there’s a perfectly fine way to design something without them.

I had a second-hand bread machine that served me very well for several years, until one day when it started vibrating like crazy and threw itself off the counter mid-knead. The whole lid smashed into about seven pieces and the dough went all over the floor. We still refer to it as “the time the bread maker committed suicide.”

Anyway, that’s how I ended up making all our bread by hand for the next four years or so.

I had a glass shower door to the shower over the bath instead of a curtain. One day I knocked it very slightly on the edge with a bottle of foundation which was only around 3 inches tall.

The glass made a shudder and loud groaning sound. It then literally EXPLODED into little pieces and glass went all over me, all over the bathroom and I was still finding stray ones months later

Cleaning out the food trap on a dishwasher wax pretty bad, as no one knew it needed that and I hadn’t been part of the purchase. It was slowly not working so I searched for the specific manual and tada! death and horror awaited me.

It’s clean now. It stays cleaner now or I stab people with forks.

My late father went to cook a steak in his propane stove/oven one evening. Usually his steak would come out fantastic, but something went seriously wrong that evening.

The stove started smoking and stinking the place up pretty quickly. What was the problem? There was a fucking dead rat in the bottom of the oven!

Needless to say, steak was not consumed that night. Hell, even after daddy threw out the steak and cleaned out the dead rat remains, he never even used the oven again.

Samsung Fridge/Freezer. About every spring and fall, our fridge freezes over in the cooling system. The ice builds up and blocks the fan which stops circulation so that the fridge warms up and spoils all the food. Samsung says there is no major issue but it seems to be common flaw talked about online. The fix is to take apart the back of the fridge and remove all the ice. One constantly on of the edge of buying a new one.