Kitchen
6 High-Tech, High-Style Appliances Your Kitchen Needs
Raise a glass to the new groundbreaking kitchen appliances that do everything but cook your meals...for now!
Hands full of groceries? Just tell your fridge to open the door. Need to know if the milk is low but you’re already at the store? Whip out your smartphone and access the camera function of your fridge to see what’s in there. These are but two examples of how tech is changing not just how we use our kitchens but also how we live. “The new generation of appliances are amazing – they make life easier and save energy, which are the top trends among consumers,” says Thierry Lopez, the Quebec-based marketing director of Best Buy. Fridges, dishwashers and ovens are controlled by voice, by touch or via an app on your phone, freeing you up from being stuck in the kitchen.
“People are busy. They want more efficiency,” says Thierry. In addition to advanced technology that streamlines the cooking and storing of food, as well as the washing up, these newfangled appliances are great-looking, too. They’re flatter and flashier. “They don’t have the same curves as they used to, so they fit into a design-forward space,” he says. “Colour is also a leading trend.” Elegant upgrades include fingerprint-thwarting black- matte-finish stainless steel, and panels that you can switch out on your fridge in punchy hues like pink and blue. Here are some of the high-tech, high-style contenders we’ve got our eye on.
Cool & Colourful
Samsung’s Bespoke Line (shown above and opposite) offers colourful panels, such as green, pink, blue, orange and yellow, that can be clicked onto the front of the fridge. You can get super creative with the four-door model by mixing up the lot: no need to renovate; just change up your fridge when you’re bored. Meanwhile, the Triple Cooling and Precise Cooling systems ensure your groceries stay cold and fresh.
Bespoke Counter Depth 36" 4-Door FRIDGE, Samsung, samsung.com, $4,199
Dark Matters
Gaggenau’s sultry fridge looks so hot it should be an oven. The dark brushed- stainless-steel interior, glare-free lighting and adjustable aluminum-framed glass shelves give a certain ambience during midnight snack time. Techy features include a display guide for maintenance and dedicated cooling pro- gramming for three climate zones. The roomy freezer compartment has an ice maker and you can control it all via an app.
Steam Power
To activate Miele’s Combi-Steam Oven – so flat and fine-looking! – press the sleek touch-screen panel, which also operates the door. Rollout racks are a dreamy upgrade that makes fighting with sticky ones a thing of the past. Intelligent automatic program- ming crisps up potatoes and chicken, or not, whichever you prefer, while the Moisture Plus mode emits bursts of steam so your sour- dough comes out as the platonic ideal of loaves. And it operates via the app or voice activation.
DGC 7870 Combi-Steam OVEN, Miele, miele.ca, $10,049
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