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We have kitchen aid brand for all of these things and I like the microwave/oven combo and the gas stove top. If you can get a dishwasher with a third rack do that

@bees_knees: O and a microwave with convention option is something I wish I would have done. I didn't think I could justify the extra $150? ish for it, but I really think with chicken nuggets and other kid snacks it would be much quicker than heating the whole oven and not as soggy as just the microwave.

I would avoid lg fridges. We have one and it's been nothing but issues (we didn't buy it, I asked for it from prior owners when we bought)

I would get separate oven and microwave. When they're connected if one breaks you have to replace both

@MamaBear87: Huh, I was about to recommend an LG fridge - we just moved and I really miss ours. The ice maker was so much more compact than on our new house fridge.

I can not recommend an induction stove enough. It’s a little annoying because you might need new pots, but it heats up SO QUICKLY. It will bring a full pot of water to a boil in a minute. The stove in our new house is gas and I hate it, waiting for something to come to a boil is torturous.

@erinbaderin: Ours was fine the first 6 months we lived here (it was 3ish years old at that point) after that point we have replaced the freon, the main motherboard, the ice maker gets stuck and knocks, and the thermostat on the front is off (so if it says 32 degrees it's more like 34)

I like how it's set up but if we didn't have a home warranty we would have replaced it by now. It's only 6 years old too

@MamaBear87: Wow, that is a lot of problems, I can see why you’d be frustrated! Ours was 6 years old also and we never had a single issue.

Not sure if it is maybe just how all newer (read: energy efficient) dishwashers are but I hate how long our new dishwasher takes to run a cycle so that is something to check.

Our old dishwasher could run a full wash cycle in 45 minutes. The new one takes almost four hours.

I had GE Profile at my previous house, and we bought the GE Adora line (a small step down) for this house. I've been really pleased with both and would buy them again in the future. They had a Frigidaire dishwasher installed when we bought the house, and we hated it. I've also had good luck with Whirlpool Gold in the past.

I'll give another vote for the third rack in the dishwasher (I think ours is Bosch as well). So useful for bottle and sippy cup pieces...

Like @PurplePumps, we also have icemaker problems with our Samsung fridge. It turns out its a really common problem, though I'd hope they'd fix it by now (ours is nearly 10 years old)

Totally a minor thing, but if possible, see if you can test what the alerts sound like. We got a new LG oven recently and it is very musical when it preheats or the timer goes off. It is incredibly irritating and nothing to be done about it. But I'm also the person who didn't buy a car because the turn signal noise drove me nuts so this could just be a personal hang up.

Love our kitchen aid dishwasher. It just plain works. We don’t have a third rack or zones or anything which I am fine with. I like that it’s relatively simple. . My mom has one with the third racks and all different little types of spots for things and I think it just makes loading and unloading a greater chore. And there are more spots in hers where things don’t seem to fit correctly.

We ended up with a Samsung fridge bc it was the only one that fit in our space and it’s been totally fine so far. Our range is also Samsung and no complaints. But we haven’t had either for particularly long.

@bees_knees: we got black stainless and it doesn’t show anything

@bees_knees: I haven't read through everything here, but I have kitchenaid appliances in a regular stainless finish and thought I'd chime in in case it helps. They're about seven years old, so I'm not sure if there's anything they've changed in the meantime though. It's a mixed bag on how much ours show. The fridge doesn't seem to show a lot (which is shocking to me because the kids touch it all. the. time.) but the dishwasher shows every drip/finger print/etc. Our microwave stays in pretty good shape, as does the oven/range. I use stainless steel wipes a couple times when I unload the dishwasher, and that takes care of the prints pretty again for a couple days. It's not ideal, but it's really the only appliance I've had those issues with.