We've had good luck with Amana appliances. Not so much with other brands, including Samsung.
Amana is owned by Whirlpool now, but they specialize in making no frills (or low frills) appliances that are well made but not very expensive. Even though they actually invented some of the "frills" like built in messaging center in a refrigerator.
Amana either invented or was the first to introduce to the market the upright deep freezer, side by side refrigerator, bottom freezer refrigerator, frost free refrigerator, and the consumer microwave oven... among other things.
Amana is owned by Whirlpool now, but they specialize in making no frills (or low frills) appliances that are well made but not very expensive. Even though they actually invented some of the "frills" like built in messaging center in a refrigerator.
Amana either invented or was the first to introduce to the market the upright deep freezer, side by side refrigerator, bottom freezer refrigerator, frost free refrigerator, and the consumer microwave oven... among other things.