Kitchen appliances - stove, oven, microwave, and whatever else is needed!

Since my wife still works and I am only 50% employed and looking towards retirement, I am quite often at the stove, etc. I can also cook a bit, not great, but it works. Stove, I find induction much better than Ceran, which we had before. This touch control on our Ikea cooktop is okay, but beautiful is something else. Oven, the main thing is that it’s waist-high. Wiping it out, so what, I don’t need a lyse. Control with rotary knobs, that was a must. I refused the one with a display and all at Ikea, even though it could do more. It only has to be able to do what I can, and that’s not much. Refrigerator, well it should cool, it’s not worth thinking about it, they all have a Danfoss compressor that lasts a good 10 years, and whether it says Amica or Liebherr on it doesn’t matter. Extraction hood, ours only cost 150, is loud and has a light, which is important so you can see better when stirring. Otherwise, when cooking, window open, good that the dishwasher can do auto, I don’t need more programs. It’s important that salt and rinse aid can be refilled conveniently, which is given with the Ikea device. Let’s see how long it lasts. Our Siemens ones lasted more than 10 years before. Washer and dryer were delivered to us by our friend from his store, both Bosch, very intuitively operable, both together 1000,- bucks, what can you say, they do what they’re supposed to, wash and dry, although I built a clothesline in the garden for us, that’s still the best. I think household appliances should first and foremost master the task they are supposed to do, extras, i.e. special programs and nice to have, are dispensable. They only cost money and require susceptible software. K.

Do you know what annoys me no matter which household appliance?
Something is always beeping somewhere.

My favorite for the past 3 weeks: the new refrigerator. The door is extremely hard to close and to bypass the door damper, the door has to be slammed VERY hard. If it then stays open too long (which for me is basically ALWAYS), it starts complaining after about a minute.

...no, the meatloaf then carries the matching QR code, which is scanned by the oven.

cool idea!

I almost don’t dare to say it... We have such a Miele oven. But please don’t ask me what it cost...-> Kitchen is my wife’s responsibility. It does what it’s supposed to do... whether it is better than Neff, Bosch, or or or, I doubt it. The cakes turn out great anyway.

He can bake cakes, therefore he deserves to be called [Backofen]. Good purchase.

Do you or your ovens actually have pyrolysis?

I have to confess that I have absolutely no problems with oven cleaning, I just wipe it out and if necessary use an oven cleaner.

No, no pyrolysis... I do it like you

But I cook whole birds on the tray, wings on the rack, spareribs under the oven grill, etc.

That is supposed to happen in the future on our great gas grill (not from Webergrill)

We don’t have pyrolysis. The oven is mine, no mess allowed. I have never missed it either. Everything that can splash around goes into the gas grill. Messing is allowed there And even there it is kept to a minimum.

With pure online shopping, the experience with the associated social contacts is missing.

Exactly! And should I tell you something? The Edeka in the neighboring village has someone at the cheese counter, at our Edeka there is someone at the butcher’s counter, they do it just like in the commercials – I could laugh every time at the lines they come up with

Something always beeps somewhere.

At our place, the induction hob beeps 5 times in a row when I put a cloth on it. Even when it is off :/

The cakes definitely turn out great

By now it’s said that you can bake better in your air fryer than in the oven

That is supposed to happen in our great gas grill (not from Webergrill) in the future

Certainly true. But with my small model, the amount that my oven can handle doesn't fit. A goose or a turkey even less so. Also, I like the exact temperature control of the automatic setting. With the grill, I would have to adjust and check again.

And honestly, how do you clean the grill? After use, empty it and heat it up to the maximum until no more smoke comes out, and then sweep it out with the steel brush. Pyrolysis, basically...