Home Appliances: Equip and Optimize Your Kitchen Easily

Practical Tips

Equip Your Kitchen with Multifunctional Appliances

A Versatile Robot

Thanks to new technologies, home appliances are increasingly efficient and can perform multiple functions. Today, with a few accessories to assemble and disassemble, a robot can whip, blend, and grind food, heat soup, or steam your meal.

The Oven

The choice of oven depends on the space in your kitchen. If you have enough space, multi-level multifunction ovens are perfect. They can cook two different dishes without mixing flavors. Less powerful ovens that can perform convection and grilling as well as serve as a microwave are available on the market. Thus, saving space in your kitchen.

The Refrigerator

To store your drinks and frozen meals, you don’t need to buy a refrigerator and a freezer. Some appliances offer both functions.

The Cooking Plates

A plate can replace several small home appliances. Starting at €200, no need for a crepe maker, grill, or snack plate.

A Stove

The stove is undoubtedly the most important element of a kitchen. It can take up a lot of space or not, depending on your choice. Current models combine modernity and versatility and have several functions. The stove can replace a cooking plate, an oven, and burners. It’s a complete cooking table.

How to Reduce Your Energy Consumption?

Electricity bills increase every year, costing much more in Belgium than in other European countries. Together, hot water and cooking account for 20% of a household’s consumption. To reduce this amount, here are some practical guidelines:

• Old appliances consume more energy than new generations, consider changing them. You will save up to 10% energy.
• Equip yourself with programmable machines. Thanks to this technique, they can stop functioning automatically if you program them. Ideal if you go out regularly.
• Distance your large kitchen equipment by at least half a meter. This concerns the stove, refrigerator, and plate.
• Don’t be tempted by cheaper products; high-end appliances are often the most economical in terms of energy.
• Turn off ovens or plates a little before the end of cooking; they retain heat for several more minutes.
• Consider air-drying your clothes. Dryers consume a lot of energy. For the washing machine, fill it completely to avoid unnecessary expenses.

Check List

• Check the labels when shopping; they indicate the appliance’s electrical consumption.
• Favor A++ or A+ category appliances.
• Regularly maintain your goods; this avoids unnecessary energy expenses.
• Vary the operation of all equipment, for example, buy gas stoves to reduce electricity consumption.
• Clean ovens and refrigerators and descale washing machines and dishwashers to better maintain them.