Yea, I know this is an old thread,, but, a few topics covered in this thread seemed to make it worth while to bring it back to the top,,
I would like to avoid stainless, but, cooking oil seems to be able to soften any type of paint, even powder coat,,
If you are gonna use a range hood,, and it is painted, the paint will eventually soften.
SO,, after about 4 or 5 painted range hoods, I opted to buy a stainless one this time.
The reason I found this thread,, is that after installing the stainless hood,, I did not seem to be able to clean the stainless ,, every treatment left streaks.
After trying a half dozen or so cleaners, the hood still looked streaked.
I found the lemon oil wood polish,, and tried that,, luckily I used a clean paper towel.
What I believe I found was that the new stainless hood was still covered with dirty oil from manufacturing the stainless steel.
In the end, I think what I found was that all of the prior cleaners were not able to remove whatever was on the hood.
The hood was streaked, because I was just pushing around the film, not removing it.
Maybe now,, I will be less afraid to buy stainless appliances.. I just got to do an initial clean, that is better than you would expect to need.
And,, as far a what has gone out of style,,
I do not think our granite counter top is out of style?
I KNOW that our 14 year old counter tops look as nice as the day we installed them.
I doubt that I would be saying that about Formica,, it would have shown wear.
The appliances are either stainless, black, or stainless/black mixed (the range)
The black and/or stainless does not seem to have gone out of style like avocado did,,,
I am not much for worrying as to what is in "style" ,, but if we had bought something horrible,, I would have replaced it.
( our previous fridge was "almond".. it is gone partially due to color, and partially do to the fact that it sucked LOTS of electricity)
So, what is your findings over the last 15 or 20 years??
Have any appliances gone out of style??
