UK Appliance Envy

In my cruising today I returned to Majjie's blog, where I found some very interesting appliances that are NOTHING like what we have here in the USA.



There is the Rangemaster Freestyle set of hob (gas cooktop) and a side-by-side PAIR of ovens. Too cool!



Or Brittania, with a whole range of ovens that would create a huge buzz in a kitchen here in the US.


Brittania also offers a cooker (range) for the multi-tasking cook with every possible convenience. Just count those knobs!

Or how about GE's Fusion rainbow of fridges?

Peggy

Green Cone™ Solar Digester

I've been meaning to put this up here for a bit.

Seems like a composter that replaces a garbage disposal and a trash compactor (don't put many of THOSE in any more), belongs on an appliance blog.



The Green Cone™ Solar Digester purports to compost kitchen waste including meat and bones, even raw meat.

If it really works, and you have a sunny spot in your yard, it looks like a real landfill-saver.

I'd be very interested to know whether it really does work.

Comments please?

Peggy

Create a Pizza Oven for Five Bucks!

Here's a great post from Curbly: Create a pizza oven for $5.00!

It works! And with your existing oven. What a great idea!

Peggy

Appliance Advisor

For those who are interested in the nuts and bolts of the appliance sales business, there is a wonderful site called Appliance Advisor that gives a real down and dirty view of that part of the industry.

"The electronic fish wrap for the appliance industry"
-Randy Rummel (ex)-President of DCS

There are innumerable resources there; for both consumers and designers:

Wanna look at every pro style hood known to mankind?

Recalls, rumors, Unilateral Minimum Retail Pricing, spiffs, a complete listing of appliance manufacturers web site links by category, it's all there.

Or how about The People's Cooktop Test for 2007?

Or Appliance Consumer Advisor that gives a rundown on all the online or magazine advisors such as Consumer Reports: "They do not review anything fancy. Strictly bread and butter big 6 brands plus a few more. Their system of blackened circles is a mite simplistic."

Have a look.

Peggy