Kitchen appliances chat

My dishwasher gives me the same vibes. Oh the eco cycle is 4hrs and 15 minutes, that's fine.

A recent article on Which (based on tumble dryers but touched on other appliances too) had lots of the eco modes being shit. Energy use was only a bit lower and results were worse.

With energy prices so high now, it'd be interesting to know how the price stacks up now.

I think we paid £50 for our condenser (£30+£20 for a new heating element), so it would take quite a while before we'd see our money back. But even if you went new there's still a good £200-400 difference.

For us I was worried about low outdoor temps with a heat pump as ours is in a brick outdoor shed.

Oh ours sits on the standard or express mode and sod the cost. Frankly I can afford the 40p or whatever it is per expensive wash

Ah, this was the Which article
https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/will-using-eco-mode-on-your-tumble-dryer-save-you-money-aX1Hh2S5YfN3

dryers on test typically reduced energy use by just 2%

Frankly I can afford the 40p

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We don't use a specific eco mode on our heat pump dryer, but i did think the which figures for heat pump VS others are interesting

On average, the heat-pump dryers on our site will cost around £68 per year to run, based on drying three loads per week every week for a year.
In contrast, vented dryers cost around £167 per year to run and condenser dryers cost on average £170 a year to run, with the most energy-hungry of each type costing more.
So owning a heat-pump dryer will save you on average around £102 a year compared to a condenser dryer.

Excitement in adulthood - first time I’ve had a modern washing machine in maybe 20yrs.

Seems quite trick for the money with DC brushless motor, auto dosing, wifi and all sorts. Tried to set it to a similar function to our old one last night and it took 40mins less time than our old one

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Are Haler an Aussie brand? I think I was looking at some of their ovens or stoves

Chinese owned but manufacture all over:

https://www.haier-europe.com/en_GB/about-haier/

Haier are the parent company of lots of other stuff - F&P, GE Appliances and Candy to name a few.

Their products are distributed in AU/NZ by F&P, some of the products use F&P technologies / platforms and come from the same factory, just for less money.

We’re renting a place with an Indesit washing machine, which I just noticed is a dryer too. But it doesn’t have a hose going outside or anything. How work? It seems too cheap and old to be some kind of heat pump / exchanger…

https://www.indesit.co.uk/freestanding-washer-dryer-6kg-f062505/p

Probably just a condenser - i.e. it uses a conventional electrical element* as a heat source, but collects the water in a tank like a heat pump dryer does.

*I'm slightly assuming condenser dryers have an element here, I don't actually know for sure, never had one.

It'll work like a condenser and expell the water through the waste pipe.

You're a waste pipe

Thanks. I've never owned a dryer. The space we have for washer/dryer in the new place can't be vented so might look into this tech.

Works well. Had for years.

This is the type of washer/dryer I have. It's OK but not the quickest. Useful for socks and the like.

Air fryer is the best thing Ive bought in years

What about a ninja or similar multifunction unit, air fryer, pressure cooker, slow cooker all in one?

Can you do socks in an air fryer?

If you like them crispy, it's hard to beat a wok.

I worked at ninja a few years ago.

The Foodi is a really good hybrid unit if you want to do a bit more than just air frying.

If you do want to just get an air fryer I fully recommend getting the twin chamber one over the single

It's much faster than a large convection oven and the air flow is more intense so it dries out the surface of the food faster. I did some pretzels recently from frozen dough and the instructions
for a regular convection oven said 15min, preheated to 200C. The air fryer did it in 6min at 180C.

Well that escalated quickly