And speaking of oven door designs
How oven doors open reminds me of another reason I get mad at US Appliance manufacturers whenever I watch "The Great British Baking Show". Their tent kitchen has ovens where the doors not only open down, but can be pushed back into the unit to get out of the way completely. In fact most of the appliances on that show look sturdier and more user-friendly than ours.
When I ran a bakery it became clear that the only equipment up to the jobs needed came from Europe and Asia. One example was our oven that, speaking of doors, used heavy heat-tempered glass doors that swung up and out of the way or down and under the level of the hearth to give complete access to the loader and the bakers.
Weren't <span style="text-decoration: underline;">we</span> once a country of innovation and products designed for the consumer and not just for the greedy CEO's and stockholders???
Every time I watch Robert's video of the AW-6 I get angry when I see that GE could and did design a washing machine that could:
<ul>
<li>Wash clothes well</li>
<li>Feature a Self-cleaning lint filter that purged during a suds killing that doubled as a detergent dispenser</li>
<li>Employ a dynamic and effective fill system around the circumference of the tub (which I don't think showed up again until Frigidaire put them in their 1-18's)</li>
<li>Spin at 1100+ rpm</li>
<li>Feature a white porcelain tub with washboard ridges that must have augmented the wash</li>
</ul>
... and then they just stopped producing such a superior product.
And now our country gives us Marjorie Taylor Gruesome
