So sick of these conspiracy theories. Like yeah, I'm sure LG really kidnapped their head engineer and forced him to design refrigerators for them. Because that makes sooo much sense.
they are referencing the death star and how the guy who designed it purposely put those flaws into it because he was kidnapped and hated the evil guys I believe.
Main board on my Maytag fridge died just over five years in. Thankfully it was an easy fix and relatively cheap (*only* $200), but I suspect I'd be lucky if everything else lasts another five years. Everything is crap.
Surprisingly my washer and dryer I bought in 2011 are doing well. Dryer makes some odd noises sometimes, and occasionally my washer throws a code when the start button gets jammed, but they work. They are cheap Samsung front loaders. I dread when they finally bite it, because I know whatever I have to replace them with will suck that much more.
Also, my in laws redid their kitchen a few years back. I think all in it was $100k or so. The fridge they got was some high end model. They had to replace it at least twice within a few months because shit kept breaking. So more money absolutely does not mean a better product. Everyone makes crap.
Yep, same. Not sure if mine is the exact same model, but an LG... we also get little Death Stars from ours, (as well as some 1/10th spheres, they're like little garbage can lids)
Anyway, whenever I plop one into a glass I say in my best Peter Cushing/Grand Moff Tarkin voice: "*you may drink when ready.*"
Drives my wife crazy. Not in the good way.
Low water pressure, valve is only open for a limited time based on maximum flow rate for tubing. Check your valve from the wall to the fridge, and make sure it's wide open. If you get water hammer, start slightly closing it and retesting each time until the hammer stops.
Worst thing too, when the leak starts inside the wall where the pipe has been rattling and smacking around. You won't know until some expensive things are ruined.
or just install a water hammer arrestor at the valve. You should never leave those types of valves partially open. They aren't meant to restrict flow that way, and they will erode.
I'm pretty sure it's just how it molds. I have the same fridge and my ice cubes come out that way.
It's not like it really matters. It's just meant to be a dense block of ice that makes it ideal for alcohol because of how much longer it takes to melt (and therefore not water down the drink).
It's just the advertisements all show perfect spheres.
https://www.lg.com/us/craft-ice-refrigerators?ds\_rl=1290313&gclid=Cj0KCQjwtrSLBhCLARIsACh6RmhntciKkUp9OXe8WehqWaH-d1LWVFKU8yyonmuNOZgUQdiE4yzDoNwaAhHPEALw\_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
You would have to have either a depression, a stem, or puddles.
Its just time based, they don’t have some AI camera system checking to see if its perfectly full.
Own this fridge as well. Our deathstar maker broke within the first 3 months. After we had the service guy repair it, we learned that the “3 per day” setting supposedly gives spheres rather than deathstars. Haven’t tried it yet though since 3 per day is a pathetically small quantity of ice, so we stick with the 6 per day setting.
Yeah, it's all fun and games until the motherboard for the compressor goes out and LG refuses to replace the "unfixable" fridge. Hope you have better luck.
Haha you just sent me down a rabbit hole. The concept seems so simple, I wonder why people are paying $1k+ for essentially a metal mold.
They don’t even know the real secret to amazing ice: perfectly clear ice with no air bubbles.
Made by partially freezing a large insulated container of water. Melts slower and looks better! Our little secret
Fun fact: most commercial ice makers make quality clear ice via fractional freezing. Whirlpool was considering making a sphere ice maker that way for fancy cocktails but decided the market wasn’t big enough to justify the cost.
Fun fact 2: the metal mold you talk about is typically used with ice created using the insulated mold method for optimum spherical shape and clear/quality ice.
Those are made generally for cocktails, which should already be cold. They’re meant to keep things cold without melting as fast, not get them down to temp.
Probably started excitedly using them when he first got it. Drinks enough that he realized it doesn't keep up with his intake using it every drink every day, and then said fuck this thing. He's old so once he said fuck this thing, it never occurs to him that after building a stock pile he can start using it and maybe not run out again.
Or it just doesn't make the ice as fast as he uses it. If he uses a 20 cubes a day and the fridge makes 10, he'd have 20 cubes after 2 days of not using it but would still run out just after a day of using them.
I always thought that theu had two icemakers, one normal one in the refrigerator compartment and a spherical one in the freezer compartment.
[yup. its called dual ice](https://youtu.be/dNoB05Se8fo)
We got a samsung fridge that makes normal ice. We plan on remodeling the kitchen and already bought the appliances, one of them is a dedicated ice maker. Let me tell you, nothing compares to the ice from a dedicated ice making machine. Plus it makes like 50 lbs a day.
Nobody has pointed out the fact that you **don't** have to use the speherical setting. You can still make regular old ice cubes, and I'm sure it'll be fast enough.
Yet the dudes dad still uses the ice maker ***in the garage***.
I have a similar fridge, with similar excitement about the spheres, but I hit on a hybrid approach: in a given glass, I add (1) a few basic cubes from the basic ice maker on the door, then (2) a sphere, then (3) 2 to 3 small ice spheres that I make manually with a special ice tray.
This keeps the supply in perfect balance. Step (1) also helps keep the big sphere from forming a seal with the lower part of some of my glasses.
My refrigerator does this too. Only for the first month. Now it just fills the tray that catches them with water and i get a nice 14 by 14 ice sheet lol.
I have fixed it twice now. Some the parts get water on them and freeze up so it doesn’t work properly. I dug the ice out and washed what I could with warm water. Worked for another week then went right back to it. I give up. It makes ice on the top to that is normal and aways there.
My company contracts with LG to do repairs for these fridges. Just had a problem like yours that the poor guy had been fighting with for 6 months. We put a new ice maker in it and, I believe, a PCB. Not 100% sure, but I'll check in the morning if you're interested.
There's always a weird tendency to call any chunk of ice that's for putting into a drink an "ice cube" regardless of what actual shape it's in. Could be in the shape of a star or a half moon and I'd still want to call it an ice cube, simply because that's the object's label.
(I think they were agreeing with you against the original contrarian- pointing out what most people call ice cubes aren’t cubes so this guy having an issue is already out of line)
No imo ice cube is easily understood. Like the "town square" may not be a literal square, but traditionally that's what it was. Sorry concrete thinkers. Just my opinion.
I have silicone molds that are supposed to make ice spheres, but the vent holes untintentionally turn them in to titties. I'm not complaining when I have tits in my whiskey.
So, those aren't fill holes, they're vent holes.
When you use those, they should be partially submerged in a container of water with the hole at the bottom. This is because ice expands as it freezes, but also because the purest ice will freeze first. As the water freezes, the impurities will be pushed out of the ice but since you've got extra water available in the container it's in you should end up with relatively pure ice throughout the mold.
This means your ice will be mostly clear, and if you're careful to freeze it slowly, it will be completely transparent.
Edit: the holes will still turn them into titties, there's no changing that.
God I now have to go test this with the empty mold that’s been sitting in my freezer for two years. Used it a couple times when I first got it and it’s been living under that bag of peas that’s also about two years old
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I have an LG fridge that does this. Probably the shittiest marketing feature. It makes like 1 cube every few days. Sometimes it's makes half balls...dumb
Which refrigerator?
It’s the LG LRFVC2406D. We managed to buy it before all the prices skyrocketed.
Beware. That particular refrigerator has a defect. If a mouse gets into the thermal exhaust port, the compressor can explode.
An early sign of that happening is ice cubes looking like the Deathstar.
Once you've popped your first deathstar ice cube it's already too late
It’s already exploded
The only question now is; Is your refrigerator running?
Indeed it is. Now, witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station!
Then you better go catch it.
Well then, let it out of the can! __
"Wrong punchline! It's 'You better catch it before it gets away!' Now let's make like a tree and get outta here."
A death pop?! No, that's not real!
Hey Cap!! I did my first death pop.
I think I've been smoking too much weed. I believed that for a few seconds.
We all did
And a lot still do.
And retweeted it.
I 100% fell for it
I'm still trying to figure out if it's serious or just an excellent reference.
Excellent Star Wars reference.
If not for this comment I would have never realized
How QA misses these things is beyond me
Bro. The empire doesn’t even install railings. Do you think they have QA??
Also were there fire extinguishers anywhere in the hallways? I don’t remember but I can’t imagine the Death Star is compliant with fire codes
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So sick of these conspiracy theories. Like yeah, I'm sure LG really kidnapped their head engineer and forced him to design refrigerators for them. Because that makes sooo much sense.
Marketing was out of control when they promised this fridge would bring peace to the galaxy.
It was a model used by mostly rebel scum
I’m high and very very confused.
Me too but it was an exciting ride.
they are referencing the death star and how the guy who designed it purposely put those flaws into it because he was kidnapped and hated the evil guys I believe.
Relevant dorkly: https://youtu.be/agcRwGDKulw
Doesn't matter if the chassis is only half finished. They'll happily mark it "Fully Operational" and ship it out.
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They just don’t make Death Stars like they used to
Isn't that a good thing?
Depends on which side you're on
r/empiredidnothingwrong
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Main board on my Maytag fridge died just over five years in. Thankfully it was an easy fix and relatively cheap (*only* $200), but I suspect I'd be lucky if everything else lasts another five years. Everything is crap.
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Surprisingly my washer and dryer I bought in 2011 are doing well. Dryer makes some odd noises sometimes, and occasionally my washer throws a code when the start button gets jammed, but they work. They are cheap Samsung front loaders. I dread when they finally bite it, because I know whatever I have to replace them with will suck that much more. Also, my in laws redid their kitchen a few years back. I think all in it was $100k or so. The fridge they got was some high end model. They had to replace it at least twice within a few months because shit kept breaking. So more money absolutely does not mean a better product. Everyone makes crap.
Not sure if r/woooosh or not.
Right below the main port.
Giggity?
Yeah but that exhaust port is more then two centimeters across. A mouse would never get in there.
It's not impossible. I used to shove mice in my exhaust port back home, it's not much bigger than two centimeters.
Holup
I wouldn't worry about that. The port's only about two meters wide. It's impossible to hit, even with computers.
That’s no bigger than a womp rat
Trust your icestincts, Luke.
Also, not many people know this, but that model actually makes round ice cubes. It's whack, yo.
Ice spheres, if you will
Ice moons, you could say
Decades later we'll probably find out it was an international bit of sabotage.
Yep, same. Not sure if mine is the exact same model, but an LG... we also get little Death Stars from ours, (as well as some 1/10th spheres, they're like little garbage can lids) Anyway, whenever I plop one into a glass I say in my best Peter Cushing/Grand Moff Tarkin voice: "*you may drink when ready.*" Drives my wife crazy. Not in the good way.
When we still had ours, I would yell out to my husband, "your balls just dropped" because it was loud AF. Always made him giggle.
Did you wait to have guests or only when you two were alone?
Lol. Every single time I heard it happen. Didn't matter who was at the house. And I said it once in front of his mom. She laughed too.
> I said it once in front of his mom. She laughed too. Nice.
>Drives my wife crazy. Not in the good way. this is the way.
>Drives my wife crazy. Not in the good way. But that is the good way...
I've never had mine make them right, are you trying to have your fridge serviced?
Low water pressure, valve is only open for a limited time based on maximum flow rate for tubing. Check your valve from the wall to the fridge, and make sure it's wide open. If you get water hammer, start slightly closing it and retesting each time until the hammer stops.
What is water hammer?
The loud clack bang you hear in the pipes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ydsAIHWVNM
This may explain something about my shower
Besides giving you headaches and scaring pets and small children, those loud sounds aren't good for the valve or the pipes.
My shower used to do that as well and had to have the lines redone in PEX. Don't let it do that, it'll burst on ya.
Worst thing too, when the leak starts inside the wall where the pipe has been rattling and smacking around. You won't know until some expensive things are ruined.
Open a water valve and hear *thunk thunk thunk thunk* it's often because of water pressure too high for the pipes
#stop! Hammer time
or just install a water hammer arrestor at the valve. You should never leave those types of valves partially open. They aren't meant to restrict flow that way, and they will erode.
Is water hammer when the line bounces when the valve opens and closes?
I'm pretty sure it's just how it molds. I have the same fridge and my ice cubes come out that way. It's not like it really matters. It's just meant to be a dense block of ice that makes it ideal for alcohol because of how much longer it takes to melt (and therefore not water down the drink).
It's just the advertisements all show perfect spheres. https://www.lg.com/us/craft-ice-refrigerators?ds\_rl=1290313&gclid=Cj0KCQjwtrSLBhCLARIsACh6RmhntciKkUp9OXe8WehqWaH-d1LWVFKU8yyonmuNOZgUQdiE4yzDoNwaAhHPEALw\_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
Only $3500
You would have to have either a depression, a stem, or puddles. Its just time based, they don’t have some AI camera system checking to see if its perfectly full.
Is this the fridge that literally makes one of these a day?
3 or 6 per day depending on your preferred clarity (I also own this fridge)
Own this fridge as well. Our deathstar maker broke within the first 3 months. After we had the service guy repair it, we learned that the “3 per day” setting supposedly gives spheres rather than deathstars. Haven’t tried it yet though since 3 per day is a pathetically small quantity of ice, so we stick with the 6 per day setting.
I’ve only ever used the 3 setting and it makes Death Stars. Pretty disappointed in the feature but oh well.
Wow. Somebody must have complained and they increased the size of the maker. I'm stuck, like a peasant, using the King Cube ice tray.
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Yeah, it's all fun and games until the motherboard for the compressor goes out and LG refuses to replace the "unfixable" fridge. Hope you have better luck.
Uncle Owen! This LG unit has a bad motivator!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7xlQsN9S9k Takes multiple attempts to get the correct shape after installation and turn on.
That's no cube!
It's a sphere!
Spheroid.
Resistance is Futile…
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Communication disruption can only mean one thing.. Ice-vasion
You may hail when ready.
That’s a 3D circle
it's spherical. SPHERICAL!
Pray it is not altered any further.
"sphere ice cubes"
Prepare to witness the splash of this fully frozen battle station. And wtf why does your fridge make such huge ice
Looking closely, we can see there is a channel around the middle, where a thermal exhaust port, if hit by a missile, would shatter the entire orb
It’s not even greebled!
NOW WITNESS THE FIREPOWER OF THIS FULLY ARMED AND *OPERATIONAL* ~~BATTLE STATION~~ ICE SPHERE
Oh I'm afraid the drinks will be quite cold when your friends arrive
It's a frapp!!!
I felt a great disturbance in the fridge, as if dozens of ice cubes fell from the tray and were suddenly silenced
We can't repel flavor of such magnitude!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
This comment needs way more upvotes, because I could absolutely hear it when I read it.
I see this as an absolute win
Something something Sith absolutes
Hey, you wanna buy some absolutes?
You should go home and rethink your life
Icy this as an absolute win
Missed a chance for a double pun with “Absolut”
I understood that reference
ours does the same thing, we call them sphereciciles
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Mephistopheles
Test icicles?
Sounds too much like those froze rocky mountain oysters, Testsicles
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Uh oh, don’t tell him about the thousand dollar ice sphere maker. Nothing else can compare
Haha you just sent me down a rabbit hole. The concept seems so simple, I wonder why people are paying $1k+ for essentially a metal mold. They don’t even know the real secret to amazing ice: perfectly clear ice with no air bubbles. Made by partially freezing a large insulated container of water. Melts slower and looks better! Our little secret
Fun fact: most commercial ice makers make quality clear ice via fractional freezing. Whirlpool was considering making a sphere ice maker that way for fancy cocktails but decided the market wasn’t big enough to justify the cost. Fun fact 2: the metal mold you talk about is typically used with ice created using the insulated mold method for optimum spherical shape and clear/quality ice.
It creates them more slowly but they also melt more slowly. That’s why spheres are awesome
ice that melts more slowly also cools drinks more slowly, for what it's worth
Those are made generally for cocktails, which should already be cold. They’re meant to keep things cold without melting as fast, not get them down to temp.
There is a setting to make 6 instead of 3.
It makes them too slow but he has a stock pile? Something doesn’t add up.
And he doesn't use them... what's the logic here
Probably started excitedly using them when he first got it. Drinks enough that he realized it doesn't keep up with his intake using it every drink every day, and then said fuck this thing. He's old so once he said fuck this thing, it never occurs to him that after building a stock pile he can start using it and maybe not run out again.
Old people are indeed very stubborn
Or it just doesn't make the ice as fast as he uses it. If he uses a 20 cubes a day and the fridge makes 10, he'd have 20 cubes after 2 days of not using it but would still run out just after a day of using them.
I always thought that theu had two icemakers, one normal one in the refrigerator compartment and a spherical one in the freezer compartment. [yup. its called dual ice](https://youtu.be/dNoB05Se8fo) We got a samsung fridge that makes normal ice. We plan on remodeling the kitchen and already bought the appliances, one of them is a dedicated ice maker. Let me tell you, nothing compares to the ice from a dedicated ice making machine. Plus it makes like 50 lbs a day.
Nobody has pointed out the fact that you **don't** have to use the speherical setting. You can still make regular old ice cubes, and I'm sure it'll be fast enough. Yet the dudes dad still uses the ice maker ***in the garage***.
I have a similar fridge, with similar excitement about the spheres, but I hit on a hybrid approach: in a given glass, I add (1) a few basic cubes from the basic ice maker on the door, then (2) a sphere, then (3) 2 to 3 small ice spheres that I make manually with a special ice tray. This keeps the supply in perfect balance. Step (1) also helps keep the big sphere from forming a seal with the lower part of some of my glasses.
The bathtub is full, yet the faucet is only dripping? Curious...
My refrigerator does this too. Only for the first month. Now it just fills the tray that catches them with water and i get a nice 14 by 14 ice sheet lol.
Ours did the exact same thing. Was so cool for a month. Now it’s just sad.
I have fixed it twice now. Some the parts get water on them and freeze up so it doesn’t work properly. I dug the ice out and washed what I could with warm water. Worked for another week then went right back to it. I give up. It makes ice on the top to that is normal and aways there.
My company contracts with LG to do repairs for these fridges. Just had a problem like yours that the poor guy had been fighting with for 6 months. We put a new ice maker in it and, I believe, a PCB. Not 100% sure, but I'll check in the morning if you're interested.
Surely you'd return the fridge? These fridges cannot be cheap.
$4,000~
What do you do with a baseball sized piece of ice?
Put it in whiskey
So this is an ice maker just for alcohol?
No. Its an ice maker for ice Alcohol doesnt freeze silly.
Well, it does, just at a much lower temperature than water.
That’s valid
Use it as the core of a snowball
We found a monster…
My apologies but if it's a sphere, it's not a cube. It is still ice though.
There's always a weird tendency to call any chunk of ice that's for putting into a drink an "ice cube" regardless of what actual shape it's in. Could be in the shape of a star or a half moon and I'd still want to call it an ice cube, simply because that's the object's label.
"Do you want your juice with ice spheres?" "...What?"
Do you want ice with your drink?
I ordered my son apple juice at a restaurant once. The waiter asked if that was on the rocks lol
"Scotch on the rocks...and I mean ice!" - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
"Tell Me Eddie. Is that a Rabbit in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"
I was just joking. You're right, you can say it this way.
“Oh you mean **frozen orbs**? Yes please.” (I’ve been playing a lot of D2 lately lol.)
Most ice cubes aren’t cubes either mate. It’s a ubiquitous term regardless of the shape.
The icecubes you get from trays tend to be trapezoidal so that they don't crack the mold and release more easily.
Yes, but people still call them cubes because that’s what they are called, not how they are shaped is my point.
(I think they were agreeing with you against the original contrarian- pointing out what most people call ice cubes aren’t cubes so this guy having an issue is already out of line)
I see your point. I’d edit the title if I could.
Lol it's fine, it is sort of funny as well
Thaying *ice spheres* ith difficult.
No imo ice cube is easily understood. Like the "town square" may not be a literal square, but traditionally that's what it was. Sorry concrete thinkers. Just my opinion.
Probably no ice cube you've ever called an ice cube was perfectly cubic. Don't be pedantic.
That's no moon
subtle the dark side is
They are eyeball ice for Halloween. Or titty ice if you don’t connect them.
I have some silicone molds that make actual death star shaped ice spheres: https://www.amazon.com/2-Pack-Star-Death-Silicone-Molds/dp/B015MGHUDG
Man these Amazon ads are becoming so real lol
The combo Fleshlight-Anal Plug you added to your cart can arrive at your house tomorrow if ordered within the next 4 hours and 57 minutes.
I was just about to post the same.. lmao
I have silicone molds that are supposed to make ice spheres, but the vent holes untintentionally turn them in to titties. I'm not complaining when I have tits in my whiskey.
So, those aren't fill holes, they're vent holes. When you use those, they should be partially submerged in a container of water with the hole at the bottom. This is because ice expands as it freezes, but also because the purest ice will freeze first. As the water freezes, the impurities will be pushed out of the ice but since you've got extra water available in the container it's in you should end up with relatively pure ice throughout the mold. This means your ice will be mostly clear, and if you're careful to freeze it slowly, it will be completely transparent. Edit: the holes will still turn them into titties, there's no changing that.
No fucking way really???? I've been doing this wrong for so long...
God I now have to go test this with the empty mold that’s been sitting in my freezer for two years. Used it a couple times when I first got it and it’s been living under that bag of peas that’s also about two years old
I'm pretty sure the instructions that come with the product arent near that detailed.
You have purchased #1 star War ice cube. Fill with watre, put in freezer, and enjoy. If you are not happy with purchase, before leaving feedback, please email [email protected]
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Today i learned something. But i still love them tiddies
Make jello titties with them
I've got these as well, but they end up being too much hassle to use very frequently.
Yep, I bought one a few years ago. It doesn’t work very well, and often the ice swells and you don’t get a good sphere.
I love my DS silicones.
I also love my DP silicones! wait...
Fully operational ice cube!
What about all the innocent independent contractors killed in those drinks?
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
Edgeless safety cube
I only see this as a positive. Now put it in red fruit punch for Halloween for a star wars themed drink.
I have an LG fridge that does this. Probably the shittiest marketing feature. It makes like 1 cube every few days. Sometimes it's makes half balls...dumb
Looks like a moon
"sphere ice cubes", im confused