"Graeme" wrote in message
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In message , alan_m
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I'll bet in most households no more than 3 settings will be used.

Agreed!

In my household its either short or long wash at 30C or an occasional wash
of (towels) at the highest temperature.

Yes, the usual 'every day' wash, a hot wash and a quick wash.

I have given up looking at specs for domestic appliances now, and just buy
whatever is on offer at the time. They all do the same basic job whether
fridge, washing machine or whatever.

Don't agree with that with fridges and freezers, frost free works a
hell of a lot better than the alternatives. And its not just not ever
having to defrost the thing either, I have just discovered when
I managed to completely fill my massive latest frost free freezer
and had to start using one of the previous manual defrost freezers
for the overflow that you don't get any buildup of ice in the food
with the frost free, presumably because the freezing air that gets
in to the freezer is completely dry with the frost free.

And much better if you manage to not completely close the door
too. The older manually defrosted freezer ended up with a massive
amount of frost in it in that situation. The frost free doesn't because
it maintains a positive presume of completely dry air too.

Same with desktop ovens, digital air fryers work a lot better than
the massive great wall ovens too for all but the biggest stuff like
say an xmas turkey etc.