AGA, of British cooker fame, have a new 382-pound baby engineered for the markets and cooking habits in North America. The AGA Pro +, is a new 36-incher that comes in 5 colors. The product launch took place yesterday with a two-hour cooking demonstration in midtown Manhattan.
I don’t normally cover the opening of an oven [...]

Last Tuesday, we showed some Refrigeration in Disguise, Sub Zeros covered with elaborate trompe l’oeil panels.
Here’s another, very cool one that that Jane T discovered.
An incredible beauty done in butternut wood, this Asian-style cabinet was created by  one of our favorite designers — Chicago’s Mick diGiulio, who specializes in imaginative, ultra-luxe kitchens.
Built into a niche, [...]

One of the most clever and beautiful integrated refrigeration units I’ve seen is this one, by L.A. designer Troy Adams, whose work fuses Asian with contemporary European ideas. Adams disguised a refrigerator-freezer unit in the style of tansu – antique Japanese furniture prized for its fine carpentry and joinery, beautiful woods and metal features. Tansu [...]

The Ferrari of all dishwashers — which washes a full pots and pans load in 30 minutes – Miele’s $5500 G 7856 commercial unit may be the newest status symbol for the über high-end residential kitchen.

Citizens of planet Miele – like moi – who enjoy discussing detergent tabs vs. power balls, [...]

I became intrigued with an antique tile stove I noticed in an auction. Another one turned up three months later.  Then, recently, I received an email from Bruce M with the story of his green Belgian tile stove! Bruce had recently listed his stove on Craig’s List, which may be one we also had discovered, [...]

On a visit to a kitchen products fair we saw the new convection-microwave speed-oven technology of the Turbochef oven cook food record time, with delicious results (we tasted). Warning: the company rep gave us a very “enthusiastic” explanation of how the oven works while we watched the biscuits rise.

Oil-rubbed bronze faucet and knob finishes are a popular choice for Mission, Arts and Crafts, Craftsman and contemporary kitchens. No surprise that ORB appliances would follow. Jenn-Air’s “Oiled Bronze” is like a cross between bronze and chocolate. For stainless haters and the panel-shy, this surface blends well with glossy dark cabinets, copper sinks and contemporary [...]

The Italian appliance company smeg introduced their interesting 36” wide horizontal dishwasher, which loads sideways. This can be especially useful in apartment kitchens where aisle space is tight and a conventional drop-down dishwasher door is a shin-bruising aisle-blocker. (Source: smeg)

We don’t judge performance until we use an appliance but when it comes to something really new, our money’s on the Prius of Pro Ranges: the American Range Hybrid. With 3 induction burners on the bottom deck plus 3 sealed gas burners on the step-up shelf, here is clean-energy speed combined with traditional control plus [...]

Suddenly single is now happily double! GE debuted their Profile 30″ oven with two seperate chambers and controls in the space of a single wall oven. The lower convection oven has a 2.8 c.f cavity — big enough for a turkey — with a slimmer 2.2 cubic-foot cooking space above. An ingenious solution for [...]

Fagor, an appliance leader in Europe, is relatively new in the US. Not much longer. Modulars like the Stainless Storage Column, which fits a 24 w. x 73-1/4” h. space and sits on 4” legs raises the integrated dishwasher 18” off the floor. Result: No bending to load! Onboard storage neatly resolves unloading. [...]

Elica is a U.K. brand of high concept range (cooker) hoods, which move traditional designs of kitchen ventilation to a new decorative realm. The glass and stainless Goldstream chimney hood is one of the most dramatic looks. These retail in Britain around $3000 (1482 £). The company claims a ”super-compact, extractor system that encases ventilation [...]