Large Appliances
February 7, 2012
Samsung Refrigerator with LCD Screen and Thru-Door Water and Ice
You can keep your kitchen and family organized with special apps made for your refrigerator that showcase themselves on the 8" LCD touch screen. From Pandora to Twitter you can also stay up to date with all your family activities with Google Calendar. There's even access to hundreds of recipes from Epicurious, plus, get the latest weather and news via Weather Bug and Associated Press.
The fridge is also WiFi-enabled, and has 28.0 Cu. Ft. of storage guarded by french doors that have the Samsung Thru-the-Door Ice and Water feature.
At Samsung Refrigerator with LCD Screen and Thru-Door Water and Ice
February 6, 2012
Induction Stove In-Depth Review
Our good friend and blogger Jason Butler has recently taken up the task of writing 39 essays in 1 year, and one of them is his take on The Joy of an Induction Stove. He's an avid fan of an induction cooktop, and we think his thoughts from someone who uses one 2-3 times a day are hard to find and amazing to get.
Some highlights:
- It’s incredibly fast. It boils water in less than half the time of our old electric stove, and faster than our gas one. You grow to love this.
- Our cooktop is a smooth surface that wipes clean easily. I used to have chase crumbs and spills down the burners, and scrape the grates and the electric coils. This stovetop is so much easier.
- The rest of the stovetop doesn’t get hot when things are cooking, and the stove itself cools down very quickly. (It still stays warm for a couple of minutes after you take the pot off, so you still have a pay a little attention.)
- In order to use an induction cooktop, you need pots and pans that are magnetic. In general, this means that you should stick with stainless steel and cast iron cookery. Aluminum, copper and glass pots won’t work.
January 10, 2012
Cook Anywhere On This Giant Induction Range
Induction cooking employs a copper wire running under the clear ceramic surface and a strong AC current to create a magnetic field which transfers electric current to the cookware and makes heating across a pot or pan even. The result is the cooktop is not hot but the pan is and that means you can induct the electricity across the entire cooktop.
The Freedom includes a 6.3-inch display that recognizes the pot's shape and size, and retails for just over $5000 - so this ease of use and cooktop will not come cheap but might be worth a look if you're redoing your kitchen.
At Gizmodo
November 9, 2011
Bertazzoni Master Series Pro-Style Gas Range
The Bertazzoni Master Series Pro-Style Gas Range is gorgeous in design, and exceptional in functionality. The range can be lit with a match if you don't have power, and the oven has one safety feature which is very nice, the door never gets hot. The top of the range features a flat surface so moving pots and pans around is never an issue. We love the stainless steel design here because it truly feels and looks flat and inviting yet very clean in the design of the edges.
August 11, 2011
Personal Brewery from WilliamsWarn Beer Company
Personal brewers are all the rage here in the US and abroad, and we have to give it to the New Zealand company of WilliamsWarn with their personal brewer. Costing just north of $4577 US when it debuts, this personal brewer takes about 7 days to get the job done. The WilliamsWarn brewing machine is currently only available in New Zealand, although its makers hope to expand to the Australian and American markets soon. We like the idea of an all in one personal brewer versus the way we're currently brewing and having to pour over and then bottle or keg our beer. The Personal brewery will deal with all of the sediment, pour off, and other wonders allowing you in the end to just serve a nicely chilled glass of your fresh made beer. Great stuff, and I bet we'll see a personal winery from these guys or others in the coming years.
Via Gizmag
June 30, 2011
Kitchen Light Dishwasher
From designer Kim Joonmin comes a concept that is both interesting and space saving - the kitchen light dishwasher. We love combo concepts and this one doesn't disappoint. We are a little worried about the mess, but perhaps this would work. You open the front and back of the dishwasher to gain access, but we'd also assume you'd need some way to lower it. Also - it would need to be really big and how would the water get in? Through the cords? Who knows but still it's interesting.
Via Popgadget
June 28, 2011
Tweeting from Your Fridge Has Never Been Easier
Samsung has included apps in the latest addition to its line of refrigerators by installing an 8 inch Wi-Fi LCD screen complete with Twitter, Pandora, AP, WeatherBug, Calendar, Epicurious, Photos and Memos. We don't often TWEET from our fridge, but we would find adding different memos and such to track what we need as being a good thing. We can only hope the fridge hooks up over wi-fi because having to both plumb it and provide an ethernet jack would suck.
Via PSFK
May 3, 2011
Smartfridge from LG Launches
The wired fridge seems to have come and gone several times, but this networked Smart Fridge from LG seems like it might be better than previous efforts. You'll be able to login to your fridge and adjust cooling settings remotely, and the fridge will feature all the internet data you'd expect like weather, shopping lists, recipes, and maybe even internet feeds. We hope whatever it features it's information at a glance.
Via Gizmag
February 25, 2011
10 Induction Cooktops For Modern Free Standing Kitchens and Others
Induction cooktops can save space, and can make a free standing kitchen even smaller in size. By using an induction cooktop you'll also save energy because they heat up much more efficiently. Here's a list of the top 10 induction cooktops over at Home Tome:
Via Hometone
December 1, 2010
Electrolux Infinity Kitchen of the Future is Open Source
LG a competitor to Electrolux has been touting an internet fridge for awhile with Windows underpinnings and it's never really taken off. Electrolux seems to think the world is now ready to embrace the connected kitchen and has developed an Internet fridge of its own in the form of the Linux-based Infinity I-Kitchen.
Here are some key details:
- The Infinity I-Fridge takes the embedded computer model pioneered by LG’s offering.
- It includes a 480 x 800 pixel touchscreen and is powered by a Freescale i.MX25 ARM processor running at 400Mhz with 128MB of RAM.
- The fridge’s memory comes packed with over 600 recipes, ranging from appetizers and main dishes to light snacks and cocktails.
- It also comes with applications such as Orkut, Calendar and contacts.
- The Infinity I-Kitchen refrigerator has a capacity of 542 liters is available in Brazil for the suggested retail price of 5,999 Brazilian Real (approx. US$3,470).
We're not sure if we'd really want an internet fridge, but if it told us the weather on the door at night while we refilled our water glass, we'd probably think it was nifty. It seems like a dockable tablet like an IPAD with a friendly display would be better.
At Electrolux Infinity I-Kitchen takes fridges open source
August 11, 2010
Jackson AJ-100 287 Rack/Hr Conveyor Dishwasher
Sure we don't feature many large appliances or restaurant grade stuff, but this dishwasher for a commercial kitchen has it all and really impresses. From top mounted controls to standard 20x20 inch racks it even has a deep-well scrap basket located on front of machine. Adjust-A-Peak feature allows user to adjust conveyor speed when various results are desired. Full automation activates sections only when rack is present and shuts down conveyor when no rack is present. Sounds safe to us!
At Jackson AJ-100 287 Rack/Hr Conveyor Dishwasher
June 15, 2010
Refrigerators of the Future Store Food in Liquid Gel
Okay this is just a concept for now, but Russian designer Yuriy Dmitriev's take on the future of the humble refrigerator is storing food in liquid gel. Dmitriev's concept is one of 25 semifinalists for this year's Electrolux Design Lab contest — and he describes it as a "biopolymer gel," or more specifically a "non-sticky, odorless gel." You simply plunge whatever you want to keep fresh into the mass of your Bio Robot fridge and it'll stay where you left it until you come back.
We're not sure we need bio gel in our Kitchen Contraption future, but we really like the idea for fruit and other items. Click on through to see more of the finalists as many of them are kitchen focused including a "community fridge".
Via DVICE at Electrolux
March 23, 2010
See Through Refrigerator - Clear Door Reveals Goodies
Designers Yoonjung Kim and Jongrok Lee have designed a concept refrigerator that allows users to see what's stored inside without opening the door. With the touch of a finger, the glass door turns from frosty blue to see through. This concept would save lots of energy for those who love to browse. You know - you don't have to have some fancy frost changing glass either - how about just a door for the door - like a sliding door that reveals the food? It does however preclude now having stuff on the door like ketchup.
Via PSFK
January 26, 2010
Cornucopia - 3D Food Printer of the Future
There's always someone dreaming of the future, and this time they've done an amazing job with a 3D food printer. Marcelo Coelho and Amit Zorhan, the members of MIT’s Fluid Interfaces group have developed a futuristic cooking concept, Cornucopia. The Cornucopia countertop food fabricator with an intuitive interface doesn’t ask you to print a menu instead it prints the food. This inventive cooktop promises to print out the food right in front of you. It’s a concept for now but once it’s out for the production, it’s gonna be important part of our hi-tech modern houses.
Via Hometone and more at TUVIE
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