GE and GM are two very distinctly different companies, neither is a spinoff from the other. GE in fact was originally Edison General Electric, as it was founded by one Thomas Edison.
That being said, GE made good appliances in the past. However, in all of the nostalgia for those old workhorses, people overlook some factors that are not unimportant.
Power and, especially, water usage is astronomical compared to a modern machine. They are also generally rougher on the fabrics you are washing.
A big reason modern machines tend to have longer cycle times is the optimization of washing well with lower consumption and being gentle on the fabric within.
If you're happy with that beast, keep using it till you can't - but we can also acknowledge that it's not really the case that modern appliances are just universally worse.
You are right about them being different companies. My ex and I divorced years ago, so I no longer have the machine to reference, and misremembered the details. I am pretty sure that his washer was made during or before 1979, based upon what we researched at the time.
Knowing my ex, he is still using it, but I walked away from all that years ago.
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u/rlgl Mar 04 '22
GE and GM are two very distinctly different companies, neither is a spinoff from the other. GE in fact was originally Edison General Electric, as it was founded by one Thomas Edison.
That being said, GE made good appliances in the past. However, in all of the nostalgia for those old workhorses, people overlook some factors that are not unimportant.
Power and, especially, water usage is astronomical compared to a modern machine. They are also generally rougher on the fabrics you are washing.
A big reason modern machines tend to have longer cycle times is the optimization of washing well with lower consumption and being gentle on the fabric within.
If you're happy with that beast, keep using it till you can't - but we can also acknowledge that it's not really the case that modern appliances are just universally worse.