To be really hacked off at all the beeping?

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So I got a new tumble dryer and cooker recently. And I'm going mad. Everything beeps. The dryer beeps repeatedly if the filter gets any fluff on it. It beeps several times at the end of the cycle. The cooker beeps if you place something on it even when none of the hobs are on. The microwave beeps far more times than it needs to when it's finished, and if you don't immediately open the door it beeps to remind you there's something in it. The washing machine beeps several times when the cycle has finished. Why the fk does everything have to fking beep in the kitchen!! Is it just me?

I love the song my washer plays at the end. It makes me realise what it is so there is some chance I will empty it straight away!

Beeping with too much fluff sounds very sensible for a tumble dryer really.

“Fuck off fridge” is a phrase heard often in my house. If you dare to have it open long enough to put more than a pint of milk away it beeps.
However, it doesnt bleep when the freezer bit is left open. Now that would be useful. That would have stopped me throwing out a freezer full of food because I left it open all night without realising.
Stupid bloody machine.

Look online for debeeping instructions - it is worth the time spend to eliminate the frustration. I had to do this with my washing machine - took only a minute to fix.

This isn't right. Mumsnet is making my weekend to-do list longer.

As well as having a go at a roux sauce for the first time in ages, I now have to try and de-beep a shitey indesit tumble dryer, two AEG ovens, an Ikea induction hob and a cheap no-brand microwave.

I've read the instruction manuals for the ovens, hob and drier for other reasons and can't remember seeing anything about changing the beepiness, but they all drive me insane, so it's worth a go.

I like our ecobubble's song. It sounds like the national anthem of washing machines. I like to salute and stand to attention when I hear it.

WTF? Wifi kettles? Why

You know when you're lying in bed in a morning and thinking 'I could murder a cuppa?' You can turn the kettle on and it will be boiled by the time you get to the kitchen. Even better, combine this with Amazon Echo and you can just ask Alexa to put the kettle on.

Our old washing machine played a short tune which you couldn't turn off, it irritated me and DS knew it did so he learned to play it on his guitar.

My new machine plays a loooooong version of Schubert's Trout Quintet. Now that irritates everyone else so I don't turn it off

Not my video, but this is it

Should have read @Sumo1 's post. Yes, it is Schubert!

I'm pretty sure my Samsung ecobubble plays a phrase from The Trout by Franz Schubert. It's about 23 mins in on

It does! I have it too.

But for a wifi kettle to work, you'd have to get into the habit of leaving water in it and keeping a phone/tablet in the bedroom, neither of which I usually do, to turn it on.

You can also get wifi fridges, which really confused me, but I imagine they'd be a great help when you're in the supermarket and you can't remember if you need X, Y or Z, just look inside the fridge on your phone to find out.

I thought it was just me who got totally irrationally irate at household appliances beeping. It appears not

Do your Roux sauce in your beeping microwave, Barbara, with cornflour - it's way easier than doing it on the hob

That's what I do now Ride, but it's not the proper way, and could be which the macaroni cheese I make is disappointing.

Barbara you need to try this! Up until about 5 years ago my roux sauce always hit and miss More miss than hit! And then I stumbled across this. It's magical. You don't need to mix with butter. You don't need butter at all so even more excuses to have a cheese sauce!! You just use this and milk and whisk and every bloody time you are guaranteed a smooth white sauce. Go on, I dare you to not be amazed by it. And I don't even work for Sainsbury's!!

Wow, I've added that one to my shopping list now, ta Serendip

Thanks, will give it a go. I've nearly run out of cornflour so need to buy something anyway.

We bought a new oven and an induction hob before Christmas..The oven beeps about the same as the last one (still too much) but the hob goes into beep overload.

'What's it fucking beeping for now' has been a common phrase recently. We didnt realise it beeped if you put a hot pan out of the oven on it.

We've had a new tumble dryer a few months and there was a new beep this week....found out it was for the water. I will forgive it though as it has a light in the drum...which I'm rather taken with

You're right about the Schubert tune - my mistake. When I looked at the online reviews for the Ecobubble, someone had said that it played a Mozart tune at the end so I took their word for it. A good lesson in how not to believe everything you read on the internet.