From trendy colors to nonworking cycles,
bad vents, bad ideas and availability issues,
6 more appliance trends to avoid
in your kitchen. We recorded that twelve appliances you should never buy last year,
then we realized you have six more to avoid.
In this video, you'll learn the six
to avoid and better alternatives in order of problems you will have later.
They start with mild caution and then with real future issues.
Let's get started.
True and La Cornue both chose mint green as their hot new color.
For True, the addition of mint green is significant.
They only have nine other colors.
It will be La Cornue's 49th color, so it's less so.
The problem with green is it's shaded past
with colors like avocado, emerald, and turquoise.
Green was always the laggard in lighting for the 90 plus years we were
in the lighting business, except over pool tables.
Mint green is paler may not be an adequate
compliment or contrast to your white or light wood cabinets.
White is back, especially in New England.
You can add different accents like copper and brass.
Black has been popular again, especially the high gloss finishes.
Just make sure it's not black
stainless steel.
You don't have to colorize your kitchen.
Mint green is only available in True
refrigerators and La Cornue ranges, so you can't in that finish anyway.
Try a pop or an accent of color in an appliance, that creates a focal point
rather than filling your kitchen with a fading trend
years later.
Smart appliances can be turned on and off from an app on your phone.
You can see time remaining in the cycle or how much detergents in your dispenser.
You also have any number of push
notifications, like leaving your door open to your fridge, or your cycle ending.
These are convenient,
but ask Alexa to cook that lasagna and she'll draw a blank.
However, smart technology like my daughter is growing up, LG and GE are testing
service alerts, so the product sends an alert
of a problem, diagnoses the right part, and then sends it to us automatically.
Service alerts will save you a ton of time and expense.
Smart will be a great feature one day, just temper your
expectations for now. Traditional Sous Vide is precision boiling in a bag in water.
Air Sous Vide is boiling with air.
Isn't that just boiling?
So I watched a few videos on how Air Sous Vide works.
First, you have to place your food in a vacuum sealed bag.
You probably have one of those lying around, right?
Then you have to read the directions
and figure out the time and temperature. For Salmon filet,
time is about 2 hours to complete a cycle.
Then you have to finish it off on your stovetop for texture.
Air Sous Vide seems like a lot of work,
if it works.
The air inside of our homes is worse than even the air outside.
Poorly vented homes have significant amounts of internal air pollution.
Cooking, especially gas, adds carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide,
nitrous oxide, and formaldehyde into your home.
Cooking was listed before even smoking for adding pollution in your home.
You may have specified a hood,
but many ventilators lack capture is specifically depth.
The highest output burners on your range
are in the front at 24 inches, whereas many hoods,
like the over-the-range microwave, is only 16 inches deep. Down drafts have no capture area.
Then again, neither do slide out hoods.
Many wood hoods are designed to be aesthetically pleasing at 21 inches rather
than 24 inch, so by the right hood with the right
capture depth before the whole country does this.
Four years ago we were contacted by the California Electric Group.
They wanted some information on induction
and wanted to use our induction buyers guide.
Their goal was to eliminate gas ranges from the state of California.
I thought they were idealistic and wished them well.
Then they were successful.
Last year, 53 cities in California adopted a no gas range law.
There are many other issues at stake, including climate change,
gas lines being ruptured during an earthquake, as well as gas emitting
more than twice the internal pollution of an electric stove.
However, gas uses less than 15 amps,
while an electric range will consume 40 to 50 amps.
Multiply that by the millions of households.
And how is all that power being generated?
That's where the conversation needed to start,
not end it. My cousin is driving me nuts.
He bought his appliances in August of 2021.
He was told a year on a few of the items.
Seven months later, the building wants the appliances in April and May.
I told him I didn't have a magic wand to make them magically appear.
Probably not only wanted to hear, but the truth.
Next family gathering should be a tad uncomfortable.
However, the appliances will be there around the promised date.
The big problem is many appliances will
have long lead times and not be on time with the promised date.
Even worse, your new appliance may be discontinued at a later date after you
order it. From components, shipping, containers, trucking, and warehousing.
The supply chain broken in so many ways.
Buy what's in stock or buy brands with better availability like SKS
or Fisher Paykel on the high end or GE profile, Beko, and LG
for more affordable luxury appliances.
You can buy mint green and panel the rest of your appliances.
Then again, I'm not the authority on style for anything.
Smart is convenient, not essential yet.
Service with smart notification will be huge.
Pretty soon, Alexa will cook your lasagna to your liking after sending out
the missing ingredients and setting the proper cycle for cleanup,
just not anytime soon. Air
Sous Vide is not a future you spend your money on.
Then again, you wouldn't because like me, you didn't know it existed and it's
a standard feature in many ranges anyway. Vent your stove properly.
Seriously. Why pollute your own environment?
Make sure the hood covers the burners.
Also, buy what is in stock with a more available brand or be prepared to wait.
Lastly, invest in electricity because we'll
need a bunch. Click the link to download a Free Appliance Buying Guide.
Unfortunately, we all know someone who's
been talked into buying a mint green range or the wrong appliance.
Don't let that happen to you.
Almost 1 million people have found the right answers in a Yale guide.
Thanks for watching.