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Appliances and Features to Make Your Kitchen the Envy of the Neighborhood

The kitchen is more than a room to meet your needs; it is often the room that delivers the wow factor to any visitors. Whether you’re planning a dinner party or inviting a friend over for coffee, you’re likely to want a modern kitchen packed with cutting edge appliances to ensure that it is the envy of the neighborhood. So, here we’ll explore some of the appliances and features you need to include in your kitchen.

Commercial Inspired Range

These days, you don’t need to visit a restaurant supply store to get a commercial style range. Many manufacturers now offer ranges that are made in a commercial style to add functionality and flair to domestic kitchens. This is likely to be a result of cooking shows, but a commercial inspired range tends to be more powerful and can look great in any kitchen. They offer greater oven space, more burners and even additional features such as built-in griddles. There is usually a choice of fuel sources, but if you want the ultimate in cooking performance, consider induction.

Immersion Blender

You don’t need to waste space or time with a bulky blender. Immersion blenders take up very little space in a kitchen drawer, yet are easier to use with faster clean up. While you may still rely on your traditional blender for making smoothies, an immersion blender can be useful for soups, sauces and many other culinary delights. Just be sure that you unplug your immersion blender before you dismantle it for cleaning.

Refrigerator With Adjustable Shelves

Modern refrigerators are equipped with some fantastic features, but one limitation is fixed shelves. Fixed shelves can make it difficult to get the best use out of your refrigerator, as you may find that you have wasted space in some areas and little available space in others. Instead of trying to adjust to these limitations, opt for a model with removable shelves that can be adjusted to fit your specific needs and changing circumstances.

An All in One Coffee Maker

These days, a coffee maker can do more than make a basic black. If you choose one that can perform different functions, you can save time in your kitchen and enjoy a coffee house style cup. Ideally, your new coffee maker should be able to filter water and have manual control, but you can also buy models that grind coffee beans. An all in one coffee maker can not only look great on your countertop, but can ensure that you don’t need to meet friends at your local coffee house, as you can prepare fantastic coffee at home.

Kitchen Companion

Smart speakers provide a fantastic kitchen companion. These voice activated devices feature a sensitive microphone that responds to a wake word and can take commands. An excellent example of this is Google Home Mini or the larger Google Home system that emits a human like voice to respond to your requests. So, whether you want to listen to your favorite cooking songs, confirm a recipe or convert measurements, your kitchen companion is ready to help. Some devices can also be configured to adjust other smart devices in your home such as thermostats and lights. There are almost no limitations for the uses of a kitchen companion; whether you want to ask how many calories are in that brownie before you eat it, want to set an oven timer or plan to learn a language while you make dinner, you can rely on your new smart device.

If you’re interested in investing in some new appliances and features for your kitchen, you can explore the options with this online collection, or speak to a home appliance expert for a more specialist service.

New Sub-Zero Wolf Steam Oven – New and Improved!

Wolf has always been known for its high-end luxury kitchen appliances, and its new steam oven seems to be no exception. Steam ovens are great additions to your kitchen, utilizing steam from a heated water tank to cook food, rather than the typical hot air that’s in conventional ovens. This helps prepare food quickly and efficiently — especially in the more delicate recipes featuring fish and veggies!

With this new steam oven, Wolf has created an appliance that might just be your best tool in the kitchen. With its design, convenience, and helpful controls, it offers true improvements over the previous generation model that make it an essential addition to your home.

Excellence Made Simpler 

Boasting a seamless, stainless steel finish with an all-touch, no-knobs control panel, it offers the perfect addition of style to any kitchen. Since they’ve removed the pop-out knobs that were found in previous models, it gives a sleeker design that’s a visible difference at first glance (especially if you have a flush inset look going on already).

Unfortunately, the main menu does need to be navigated by a side touch panel, rather than being directly activated by touch on the screen itself. While this can make accessing the menu tedious at times, what it lacks in that innovation it makes up for in the convenience and versatility of the menu itself.

The display menu offers many helpful features that create a fantastic addition to this oven that weren’t there in previous models. It has a quick start menu off the bat for fast convenience — complete with all the common options you’d expect from a steam oven, such as convection, convection steam, convection humid, and reheat.

Beyond that quick start menu, Wolf has also installed tools to help assist with things like the best rack position for your food, depending on if you’re using one rack or two. It also allows you to set specific parameters for your cooking, including how long you want the oven to heat your meal and when you want it to both start and shut itself off. Being both sleek and handy, it’s a simplified, but also personalized experience. Forget about worrying if the stove was left on at home from now on.

Even more than those convenient additions, this new steam oven even helps you if you’re in the middle of a recipe and need assistance with the cook times of a specific item, a setting they’ve called Wolf Gourmet. Making a pizza? No problem, your oven knows the time to make it delicious and crisp. Vegetables? Even desserts and yogurt are covered in this, so you’ll never have to guess cook times again. The gourmet feature is a particularly helpful tool for anyone that’s new to the kitchen, eliminating the anxiety entirely. Beyond that, even if you’re an experienced veteran, it’ll be just as great for convenient and predictable results with recipes.

Without a doubt, the best part about Wolf’s steam oven is its personalized experience. Whether you’re a newbie in the kitchen or a cooking savant just looking for a more simplified solution for your meals, this steam oven is the perfect companion for you.

With the new design comes new creativity from the luxury giant, and they’ve clearly taken that creativity and run with it. Sleeker in appearance, sporting an easy startup menu, including a convenient, concise setting control panel, you’ll have the peace of mind that you’re getting one of the most sophisticated, yet easiest to use tools on the market today.

Bound By Nothing: Jenn-Air’s “The New Face of Luxury” Challenges Convention Head On

With the surge of luxury lines entering the high-end kitchen appliance space, it’s no surprise that Jenn-Air has made its own splash.  At a recent design show at the end of March, it unveiled its new campaign, titled “Bound By Nothing,” with a bold and rebellious video, teasing a new product line and unveiling a new mobile app.  With this new rebranding campaign, Jenn-Air has managed to make its own statement and stand apart from the other companies in its new marketing campaign.  It embraces a methodology of “limitless possibilities” by “challenging convention,” according  Jenn-Air marketing director John Hall to brand channel.

Though still shrouded in mystery, Jenn-Air’s video release has made its shocking entrance to say it’s “not your mama’s old kitchen appliances.”  Unconventional, edgy, and even sexy, it seeks to destroy the old myth of luxury and bring their reinvented premium product line to a new, younger audience.  Out with the old school dullness of fancy cars and stuffy parties, in with progressive technology and stylish design.

Bold and Unique 

While other companies have been in the midst of their own luxury reinvention, e.g. Dacor since its acquisition by consumer giant Samsung, JennAir’s approach seeks to shock with provocative messaging. Dacor has taken a more understated approach to disrupting the status quo of the luxury kitchen appliance market, while Jenn-Air’s tease seems to be hell bent on turning heads with the anticipation of its product unveiling.  And it seems to working, with nearly a million hits on YouTube alone at the time of this writing.

There are certainly similarities between the two companies efforts to compete with the established giants like Wolf, Miele and Gaggenau.  Both Dacor and Jenn-Air offer up sleek designs, in the newest black stainless steel appliance finishes, and both feature the use of apps to create a more convenient and smarter user experience in the kitchen and home.

Though it’s hard to determine what Jenn-Air has to physically bring to the table as of yet — with no real product line fully revealed — Jenn-Air’s new app might be a hint as to just how inventive they’re planning to become.  Compared with Dacor’s current iQ Kitchen app — a white, traditionally modernist format — Jenn-Air’s app will boast a dark dramatic design.

Jenn-Air’s app seems prepared to be a more personalized experience for the user, offering voice commands and even more device compatibility than the competition.  Not only will it be smartphone compatible, but it will also be Google Home, Amazon’s Alexa, Apple Watch, and Nest accessible.  Jenn-Air utilizes the latest tech and smart capabilities to best fit the new expectations in the digital marketplace as much as in the physical.

The “Bound By Nothing” campaign screams for attention.  With the use of eye-catching marketing and the preview of a slick mobile application that encourages customizable experiences for every user.  What little we’ve seen has shown that the company is serious about joining the ranks of the other luxury kitchen appliance giants.  Time will tell how well Jenn-Air’s new lineup will compete against the establishment.