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Best home appliance deals from the Samsung 4th of July sale
The Fourth of July is a fantastic opportunity to score amazing deals on kitchen appliances. Samsung is offering significant discounts on some of its top-rated products, including Bespoke refrigerators and washers and dryers. Take advantage of these limited-time Samsung appliance deals to upgrade your home this summer.
Shop the Samsung Fourth of July sale
Keep reading to shop the best kitchen appliance deals at the Samsung Fourth of July sale or click the button below to shop all Samsung Fourth of July deals.
Save now on Samsung kitchen appliance bundles
Here’s a chance to save up to $2,650 when you purchase a Samsung kitchen appliance bundle. Mix and match refrigerators, microwaves, ranges, wall ovens, dishwashers and more to create the perfect setup for your home.
If you don’t need an entire four-piece set, each appliance is also offered separately at a discounted price, but only for a limited time.
Samsung Bespoke AI all-in-one washer and dryer: $1,679 (save $1,660)
The Bespoke AI Laundry Combo machine is the fastest and largest all-in-one washer and dryer on the market, according to the brand. It features a 5.3 cu. ft. ultra capacity, allowing you to wash and dry clothes in one machine in just 98 minutes using the Super Speed cycle.
The all-in-one machine’s ventless design ensures easy installation with a standard 120V outlet, eliminating the need for a dryer vent exhaust system. Additionally, the AI-powered wash and dry technology offers simple and intuitive cleaning.
The Samsung Bespoke AI all-in-one washer and dryer is being offered at a special price of $1,679, down from $3,339. Samsung financing is also available starting from $65.45/month for 24 months.
Samsung Bespoke 4-door flex refrigerator with beverage zone and auto open door: $2,001 (save $2,098)
The Bespoke 4-door flex refrigerator with changeable door panels features a beverage zone with two temperature settings and an option to choose from an internal dispenser or a built-in auto-fill water pitcher that automatically refills.
The automatic open door feature helps you fully open doors with a light touch, even if your hands are full. The refrigerator also includes a dual auto ice maker and Wi-Fi connectivity for ultimate convenience.
Right now, this refrigerator is on sale for $2,001, reduced from its list price of $4,099. Samsung financing is available starting from $83.38/month for 24 months.
Stainless steel, 28 cu. ft. 4-door French door refrigerator: $1,424 (save $1,475)
During Samsung’s really cool Independence Day sale, you can have this gorgeous stainless steel refrigerator delivered to your door with free next-day delivery (in most areas), and save a whopping $1,475. For a limited time, you’ll pay just $1,424.
“FlexZone” drawer tech lets you set four separate temperature settings for storing food. And this is a smart fridge, meaning you can, among other things, control and monitor the temp from your phone.
This is a 28 cu. ft. (in other words, large) 4-door French Door refrigerator that normally sells for $2,899. During this sale, if you want to take advantage of special financing, you can pay just $59.33 per month for 24 months and pay zero interest.
Free shipping, installation and haul away of your old refrigerator are included in this special price. You can choose from a variety of finishes.
Many other refrigerator models are also on sale, so be sure to check out Samsung’s website to discover the latest offerings on Bespoke, French door, 4-door, Family Hub and side-by-side models.
Samsung stainless steel 6 cu. ft. smart slide-in gas range: $849 (save $1,150)
Right now, you can save $1,150 on this popular 6.0 cu. ft., smart slide-in gas range with air fry in stainless steel.
It’s on sale for $849 but you can also choose to finance it for $35.38 per month over 24 interest-free payments.
Choose from four stainless steel finishes. Free shipping, installation and haul-away of your old appliance is included. And like so many of Samsung’s latest appliances, this one fits into the company’s SmartThings ecosystem — it’s also fully Wi-Fi-Connected and voice-enabled.
Samsung 2.1 cu. ft. over-the-range microwave: $358 (save $61)
Even if you can’t afford to upgrade all of the appliances in your kitchen, it’s hard to pass up this deal on a cutting-edge, family-friendly microwave. It has a 2.1 cu. ft. capacity and includes a sensor cooking feature, along with a fingerprint-resistant housing.
This microwave offers 1,000 watts of cooking power and can easily accommodate a variety of dish sizes, so you can prepare large meals (for multiple people) quickly. The cooking sensors automatically adjust cooking time as needed to achieve optimal results. You also get a four-speed 400 CFM ventilation system and a digital LED display.
If you’re not looking for an over-the-range microwave design, Samsung has many of its other microwaves on sale as well during its Fourth of July sale, so head over to Samsung’s website to discover what’s available and see how much you can save.
Samsung Bespoke laundry set: $1,571 (save $1,227)
The new Samsung Bespoke laundry line features generously sized 5.3-cubic-foot washers. The Bespoke laundry line includes all the latest AI technology you’ve come to expect from Samsung laundry appliances. These washers and dryers are outfitted with a smart dial for easy cycle selection, an auto-dispenser for adding laundry detergent and Samsung’s Super Speed wash and dry settings for quick loads.
Samsung has added a new feature to its Bespoke laundry line. The latest Bespoke line includes Samsung’s AI Optimal Dry. The tech feature uses sensors to detect the moisture content of your laundry and automatically selects the best drying setting.
Like other Samsung Bespoke appliances, the Bespoke washer and dryer are available in three designer colors: brushed black, silver steel and brushed navy. The dryer is available in electric and gas versions. (Expect to pay $90 extra for a gas-powered dryer.)
Samsung Bespoke washer and dryer pair (electric), $1,571 (reduced from $2,798)
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A study to devise nutritional guidance just for you
It’s been said the best meals come from the heart, not from a recipe book. But at this USDA kitchen, there’s no pinch of this, dash of that, no dollops or smidgens of anything. Here, nutritionists in white coats painstakingly measure every single ingredient, down to the tenth of a gram.
Sheryn Stover is expected to eat every crumb of her pizza; any tiny morsels she does miss go back to the kitchen, where they’re scrutinized like evidence of some dietary crime.
Stover (or participant #8180, as she’s known) is one of some 10,000 volunteers enrolled in a $170 million nutrition study run by the National Institutes of Health. “At 78, not many people get to do studies that are going to affect a great amount of people, and I thought this was a great opportunity to do that,” she said.
It’s called the Nutrition for Precision Health Study. “When I tell people about the study, the reaction usually is, ‘Oh, that’s so cool, can I do it?'” said coordinator Holly Nicastro.
She explained just what “precise” precisely means: “Precision nutrition means tailoring nutrition or dietary guidance to the individual.”
The government has long offered guidelines to help us eat better. In the 1940s we had the “Basic 7.” In the ’50s, the “Basic 4.” We’ve had the “Food Wheel,” the “Food Pyramid,” and currently, “My Plate.”
They’re all well-intentioned, except they’re all based on averages – what works best for most people, most of the time. But according to Nicastro, there is no one best way to eat. “We know from virtually every nutrition study ever conducted, we have inner individual variability,” she said. “That means we have some people that are going to respond, and some people that aren’t. There’s no one-size-fits-all.”
The study’s participants, like Stover, are all being drawn from another NIH study program called All Of Us, a massive undertaking to create a database of at least a million people who are volunteering everything from their electronic health records to their DNA. It was from that All of Us research that Stover discovered she has the gene that makes some foods taste bitter, which could explain why she ate more of one kind of food than another.
Professor Sai Das, who oversees the study at Tufts University, says the goal of precision nutrition is to drill down even deeper into those individual differences. “We’re moving away from just saying everybody go do this, to being able to say, ‘Okay, if you have X, Y and Z characteristics, then you’re more likely to respond to a diet, and somebody else that has A, B and C characteristics will be responding to the diet differently,'” Das said.
It’s a big commitment for Stover, who is one of 150 people being paid to live at a handful of test sites around the country for six weeks – two weeks at a time. It’s so precise she can’t even go for a walk without a dietary chaperone. “Well, you could stop and buy candy … God forbid, you can’t do that!” she laughed.
While she’s here, everything from her resting metabolic rate, her body fat percentage, her bone mineral content, even the microbes in her gut (digested by a machine that essentially is a smart toilet paper reading device) are being analyzed for how hers may differ from someone else’s.
Nicastro said, “We really think that what’s going on in your poop is going to tell us a lot of information about your health and how you respond to food.”
Stover says she doesn’t mind, except for the odd sounds the machine makes. While she is a live-in participant, thousands of others are participating from their homes, where electronic wearables track all kinds of health data, including special glasses that record everything they eat, activated when someone starts chewing. Artificial intelligence can then be used to determine not only which foods the person is eating, but how many calories are consumed.
This study is expected to be wrapped up by 2027, and because of it, we may indeed know not only to eat more fruits and vegetables, but what combination of foods is really best for us. The question that even Holly Nicastro can’t answer is, will we listen? “You can lead a horse to water; you can’t make them drink,” she said. “We can tailor the interventions all day. But one hypothesis I have is that if the guidance is tailored to the individual, it’s going to make that individual more likely to follow it, because this is for me, this was designed for me.”
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Story produced by Mark Hudspeth. Editor: Ed Givnish.
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