• cogman@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    For stoves, the thing that breaks is the control board. Hot + electronics is bad.

    An induction stove avoids most of that problem because the hot happens in the pot and not inside the stove.

    But I agree, there’s not much reason a stove can’t last 50 years. In fact, my parents have a 50 year old resistive stove that still works.

    Washers have the most to go wrong of things you listed.

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      1 hour ago

      My burner igniters aren’t electronic-control and they still failed in a less than decade old stove that was not heavily used at all (I live alone and use the stove, not even the specific burners that failed, maaaaaaaaybe monthly)

      They just make their parts cheap overall. Induction isn’t enshittification-proof. If anything it’s more susceptible, being entirely electronic.

      That said I’d trade my gas stove for induction if I could, even with enshittification.