Any modern kitchen usually includes a stove and possibly a microwave oven. It also has a sink that has hot and cold running water available for cleaning food, cooking, as well as washing utensils. Some modern kitchens have dishwashers. They also have one or more units to store food, to store utensils, pots and dishes. They are usually present in or near a kitchen. They are in the form of an adjacent pantry or, more commonly, as kitchen cabinets and a refrigerator that often also has a freezer compartment.

To follow these modern trends, it’s important to find appliances that fit both your decor and your lifestyle. And this is a task that can seem daunting when visiting a showroom with hundreds of makes and models.

The basics

Each kitchen has the following essential cooking appliances: stove, refrigerator, dishwasher, and oven.

Refrigerators come in one of three configurations. The traditional top-mounted fridge, which has the fridge on the bottom, is the most common. This type offers a wide range of models to choose from. Bottom-mounted refrigerators are those where the refrigerator is on top. In this model you can put food at eye level, which is an advantage for people who use fresh ingredients to cook. The third type is the side by side model. This also allows you to put the food at eye level. However, here the interiors are sometimes more cramped. The choice of the model and size of the refrigerator will depend on the lifestyle of each person. For example, people who cook food with fresh ingredients will have different refrigeration needs compared to someone who uses mostly frozen food. Additional features such as defrost, water dispenser, ice maker and integrated television are also available.

When it comes to dishwashers, consider convenience features like a delay timer and energy-saving features like the economy cycle or half-load capacity. Providing the option to be used in one or two drawer configurations, dishwasher drawers are a good choice for smaller kitchens and are often used as secondary dishwashers.

Kitchen appliances have become the basic necessity of modern kitchens. Most of today’s kitchens include more than one cooking appliance such as ovens, stoves, and other cookers. The ovens in use today are often more than just the basics. Those that offer multitasking options like combining traditional cooking with convection, or those that use circulating air to speed up cooking time, or general speed cooking, which makes use of halogen lights to reduce cooking times.

Induction cookers, which are an alternative to gas and electricity, have developed a broader demand in recent years. In this method, electricity flows through a coil to produce a magnetic field under a ceramic stove. When an iron or magnetic stainless steel skillet is placed on the ceramic surface, it heats the skillet, rather than the stove. Thus keeping the place where we have to keep still cool. These stoves, which are usually gas or electric, also come in dual-fuel models, that is, they offer induction cooking in addition to gas. Some of these ovens are also useful as microwaves.