designer | kitchen technology
You may remember the launch of the first Internet-connected fridges back in the year 2000. They could detect when grocery stocks were low and automatically reorder them online, offering food management as well as multimedia capabilities. They came with lots of hype, a hefty price tag, and two fatal flaws – consumer apathy and some major system integration problems.
Despite the new technologies, some said that people were never going to get too excited about appliances – that they’re just machines to help with the chores after all. While the online fridge may have been a bit of a false start for appliances with connectivity, appliance brands are still keen to sex up their offerings with devices that have an electronic brain,
which can make decisions for – or communicate with – the user.
“The new interest in home dining and entertaining has changed the face of the kitchen appliance market, inspiring manufacturers to develop more sophisticated appliances that bring professional and semi-professional standards of cooking to the average home as well as the technology necessary for hapless cooks to cheat their way to culinary success,” says Rita Balestrazzi, Marketing Manager at Baumatic. “Some compact combination steam ovens offer numerous preset recipes and memory functions for favourite dishes that automatically set the ideal conditions for a selected dish to cook at the touch of a button.”
Fiona Scott, Brand Manager of Barazza at Euroline Sales & Marketing agrees: “With today’s busy lifestyles, free time is precious and so anything that helps to give some of that back is proving increasingly popular. With this in mind, the best recommendation I can make is an intelligent oven that takes the work out of cooking for you. For example, Barazza’s Velvet oven allows you to form a list of customised modes. So, you could create your very own ‘canapé’ setting with the oven programmed to cook at a certain temperature for a certain length of time, leaving you with time to dedicate to your guests rather than worrying about your canapés burning.”
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Baumatic’s Premium Line BCS455TS combi steam oven offers a choice of 60 preset recipes or up to 100 memory settings of the users’ own favourite dishes. It then sets the ideal cooking conditions accordingly. It has a regeneration programme that uses steam to warm pre-cooked or frozen dishes, plus a steam-puff that helps to humidify dishes that are drying out. Also boasts A energy efficiency, touch controls, 35-litre capacity, pause feature, self-cleaning programme, LCD full programmer (so oven can be programmed to turn on and off) and 11 functions including fan, grill, steam only and combi-steam. Baumatic |
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