Kitchen appliances chat

Also worth looking at Fisher & Paykel -

with this:

or

with this:

i have just ordered a 60cm smartzone as above

(does help that i work at F&P though)

Top tip for the wok burners - and most gas ranges - remove the central flame disperser and you will get a solid jet of flame instead. You get better, hotter flame coverage across the bottom of the pan. Stronger wok hei.

I'd like a 90cm smartzoned induction hob and no idea where to go other than Miele, now I'll look at the F&P range

Those that know this tip/kitchen back 😀🤜

Hadn’t seen these - look nice. I wont be having to worry about kitchen specs until next year but good to know there’s a few options and people I can ask about it when I do 😃

What’s the damage for one of those F&P setups?

£600 ish for the wok, £900 ish for the 4 spot induction.

I think it’s about £600 for the triple burner and £600 for the double induction domino.

Compares with Smeg dual fuel varieties, probably a fair bit cheaper than the Gaggenau.

Cheers!

I think if we were to do our kitchen again I would look into integrated burners/pads although would inevitably have to VE them out once quotes were received.

That looks very swanky but when a pain boils over what stops the liquid spreading everywhere including on the floor?

invisible is the new black? or orange?

https://www.cookingsurface.com/en/catalogue/

Neff do a 90cm induction cooker, 5 hobs with the outer pairs that tie into a flexzone/smartzone. We're looking at one for the kitchen in our new place. Link here.

I don’t think the people who have those hobs ever actually eat at home.

We have a neff smartzoned induction hob. The one with full touchscreen and no knob. It has been fantastic. Once every few months it glitches but just needs to be turned on and off at the wall.

Being able to combine zones to heat a large rectangular teppanyaki pan or griddle is great. I was sceptical about being able to set a temperature gradient (hot medium low where you can specify each) for sliding a pan from front to back of the hob but I use it most of the time when I am cooking.

We have the N90 version, it’s fantastic.

Ta all.

Same as a flat induction hob. Water runs along the surface. When a pan overboils it doesn’t eject all its contents, just some comes over the top.

Unless you've put some baking soda in the water and accidentally turned the hob to boost, then it's like a scene from the Exorcist.

baking soda in the water

Kenji roasties?

Lol yeah my kitchen list has already had some major VE and we’re nowhere near that stage yet - wife basically told me to get lost with my wants

My wife is happy with me spending £1500 ish on hobs, but haven’t got back to her on Gaggenau pricing yet…

I think a Gaggenau 900mm induction hob costs around £2750, so if I kitted out my kitchen with all the things, I would not be able to afford to have a roof on the kitchen.

Yeah it was the Gaggenau domino hobs, extraction and double oven plus Vola taps that caused umbridge amongst other things

Good to know. I couldn't see the benefit of the N90 (eg T59TS5RN0) over the N70. Not so hot on the little touchscreen, I quite like the tactile nature of the knob (fnar).

While on the topic of cooking kit, we want two full ovens in our hypothetical new kitchen. Do we stack them vertically in a single full height unit, or go with them side-by-side in two full height units?

Anyone done the former and got opinions? Latter sounds better but will add another chunky unit to the kitchen.