Kitchen appliances chat

Not a bad haul for £850…

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Gagganeau is nice stuff.

We use our teppanyaki plate for pancakes more often than anything else

Pancakes sound amazing.

I don't think I'll be installing it in my kitchen, but am thinking of setting them into a Korean BBQ style table like this:

The Induction domino has a max of 3600w, the teppanyaki has 2300w.
If I put them on individual plugs, and plugged them into a double socket, will my house blow up?

I think the teppanyaki would be fine, induction not so much.

Blow up, unlikely. Catch fire, possibly...

I'm no expert but recall you're not to wire them onto a plug and into any old socket, need to be hardwired by an electrician.

Quick bit of GCSE physics, both of those on full at the same time would draw over 26amps, that's spicy!

You need to hardwire it to an outlet like this

And that needs a dedicated cooker fuse on your consumer unit.

Thanks, I read that you shouldn’t put more than 3000w on a single plug.

You do have induction hob units designed for plug use, they don’t exceed 3000w.

The Teppanyaki grill should be ok on a plug though?

The kitchen teppanyaki trolley might still be possible….

It's more about whether it's fixed in place - if you need to move it then put a plug on it. If it's fixed, or drawing more than 3kW, then give it a dedicated supply. You can't put more than 13 A (3 kW) through a plug.

My washing machine has just died so pondering upgrading to a washer/dryer. However, I remember that these didn't used to be that good. Is that still the case or can you get decent ones? Do you still need to stick a hose outside or do they do fancy stuff now?

We got our first a couple of years back and have loved it.
This model (or close enough - wasn't in the UK) uses a heat pump (I think?) to condense the water and send it back out the waste pipe - no need to vent outside.

Cheers. How long does it take to dry stuff? Reviews of some of them seem to talk about 8 hour cycles!

nowhere near that long fortunately - about an hour or so for clothes, up to two for towels..? (note: capacity for drying is lower than for washing, so always had to take a few things out post-wash prior to drying, unless doing a smaller load).

though my memory might be being crap - we actually left ours in the flat we sold at the start of the year, but will definitely buy another once we’ve get the keys to the place we’re after at the mo.

Just got a Samsung 9kg heat pump tumble dryer.
A towel load of about 6kg suggested a time of 3 hours.

Our previous cheap vented one was a lot quicker, but probably horrendously poor for energy efficiency. Also was very noisy.

The Samsung one is quiet enough that I reckon we’ll run it overnight.

Heat pump is always slower but you gain the 8 star energy rating vs 2 star.

We have a Haier 8kg heat pump one we picked up recently, happy with it so far although i was surprised how loud it is

Finally connected!

Just the worktop, induction hob and sink to go in and I’ll have a fully functional kitchen.

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Will those two oven things have slightly out of sync clocks or do they have some sort of way of telling the correct time automagically?

Slightly out of sync clocks, which is a bit annoying.

The electricians turned one on after the other. Should be fairly easy to rectify by turning off both at the isolator for a while and turning them both on at the same time.

At exactly midnight

In the year 2000.

It is insane there isn't an option for some sort of link cable that allows them to communicate and set each others clocks. Some sort of low voltage, optoisolated, common protocol, maybe I²C style. It could even be manufacturer specific which would help lock you into their brand. Would cost them pennies. They could call it KitchenSync™.

With the newer ovens with wifi connectivity, I think it will be less of a problem.

The ovens have power cut protection, so looks like I need to leave them off for a while before I can fully reset the dates.

I know the homeowner thread is mad for a Shark, but what’s the best hand held vac? We have a battery stand up one but need something small without a brush head thing.

… or a small piece of electrical tape over one of the clocks.

not shit dishwasher?

ikea offering no assistance on fixing our broken one (as we didnt buy it) sick of half clean dishes so just going to buy a new one, 60cm integrated required, we have a cupboard door that needs to be attachable

If you already have a door be sure to check if you need an integrated or semi-integrated. So control panel on the front or on top of the door, might be obvious but it's something I had missed and I needed to order a different door.

Not sure on brand, we have the cheapest Bosch we could find and it's fine if a tad noisy.