Industry Trends

  1. March 23, 2020

    ASSESSING THE VERONA ITALIAN RANGE: PRICE, FEATURES, DESIGN, & MORE

    The range is where your ingredients come together to form delicious flavors and nourishing meals. Because of this, it’s important to have a range that you love – one that works with you and for you.

    In this comprehensive ​review​ on the Tidbits blog, read about the Verona Italian Range Prestige series 36” Dual Fuel double oven, which offers a gas stove top and electric oven.

    About the latter, the reviewer writes that “​This oven is considered a True European Convection, which basically means your food will cook faster, more evenly, and you can make cinnamon rolls and roast at the same time and the flavors won’t blend together. It’s pretty amazing.”

    Throughout the review, which also includes video and high-quality images to give you a clear visual idea of the product, you can read about the range’s Price and Availability, Design, Features, Attachments and Accessories, and Clea

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  2. March 23, 2020

    HOW A RANGE HOOD REDUCES A COMMON KITCHEN PROBLEM

    Cooking a pot of fresh pasta; steaming a blend of seasonal vegetables; baking chocolate chip cookies from scratch. Close your eyes and it’s easy to picture these and so many other cooking-related activities happening in kitchens around the world. You can almost smell the deliciousness as it rises from the stovetop.

    But there’s something a bit less sweet or savory to consider when thinking about cooking and how it affects your kitchen and home. Naturally, when we cook, our kitchens collect excess moisture and steam, which can lead to mold and mildew – which in turn, can lead to health issues like congestion, throat irritation, coughing, and more.

    One of the best, most proven ways to take care of this overall problem is by installing a range hood in your kitchen, which works to remove excess steam, heat, carbon monoxide, and other pollutants. In this ​recent blog post​ from Faber, learn abo

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  3. October 21, 2019

    AIR FRYING: JUICY MEETS CRUNCHY

    Air fryers have been increasingly trending and selling for the past couple years and for good reason. They’re a new way to cook old favorites with unprecedented speed, safety, and convenience. Now, when a fried craving hits, you can make it healthier and still delicious - right in your oven.

    Air fryers don’t actually fry food. They can serve as a substitute for frying, sautéing, baking or grilling. Think of them as an enhanced convection oven. They superheat the air, producing natural convection currents that are then circulated by fans. Perforated cooking baskets allow that air to flow freely around the food. Get all the flavor, eat healthier, and ensure the capacity to feed everyone with oven air frying.

    So, in effect, your food is bathed in hot air instead of hot oil. You get crispiness without the grease. There’s less mess, less heat radiated into the kitchen, and less time spent preparing meals. Juicy meets crunchy!

    Air fryers also are helpfu

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  4. May 03, 2019

    WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH BLACK STAINLESS STEEL?

    It seems like black is the new, well, black, at least when it comes to a hot trend in kitchen appliance design.

    Black stainless steel now sells well to a mass audience, as a growing legion of consumers are attracted to the sleek, bold look that this finish gives refrigerators, ovens, cooktops and hoods, microwaves, dishwashers, and washer/dryers. While traditional stainless steel remains king, multiple manufacturers now offer black stainless steel options for all major kitchen appliances as well as washers and dryers, and some say that finish accounts for 30% of their sales of total packages, when consumers are re-doing the whole kitchen at once.

    Consumer tastes can be mercurial, but after decades of going from white to black to various shades of green, brown and yellow, to stainless steel, it seems like the leading edge has gone back to black, and it might be there for a while. While stainless continues to be the leading choice for most buyers, there are some

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  5. April 18, 2019

    TRENDING IN KITCHEN APPLIANCES: INDUCTION COOKTOPS

    Induction cooking may not use fire, but it does use one of the earth’s elemental powers to perform its magic: electromagnetism. An induction burner comprises an electromagnetic coil under a glass plate. The electromagnetic cycle that powers the cooking occurs through contact between the burner and the pot or pan, which itself must be magnetic. The heat occurs when electrons from the cookware align with the magnetic field in the cooktop. Electrical currents are created in the resulting oscillating magnetic field, and heat is rapidly and controllably generated. The process is fast, efficient and safe.

    Experiment yourself, or set it up on your store floor for customers to see. You’ll find that a gallon or so of water boils in about four minutes on a typical induction stove, compared with about seven minutes on an electric range and eight minutes cooking with gas.

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  6. March 14, 2019

    8 INDUSTRY TRENDS TO LOOK FOR IN 2019

    Sleek design and connected functionality are home appliance trends that retailers need to keep in mind as they serve their customers in 2019 and beyond. Millennials are driving much of this, and they can’t be ignored. This generation — people born between 1982 and 2000 — is now the nation’s largest and coming into their own as homeowners and appliance buyers. These are largely digital natives. More than 90% own smartphones and, along with the exploding adoption of Alexa and Google Home smart speakers, this generation and the young Americans behind them expect to be able to do nearly everything with technology.

    Appliance makers are responding by building refrigerators that display their contents, washing machines that order detergent on their own, and dishwashers that can be told to turn on and off by users across the room or across the country. There are also ae

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