Home LivingAppliancesKitchenThe three best kitchen upgrades for 2022Move your cooking into the future, with these next level appliancesWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Home LivingAppliancesKitchenThe three best kitchen upgrades for 2022Move your cooking into the future, with these next level appliancesWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Move your cooking into the future, with these next level appliances
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Haier)
(Image credit: Haier)
During the various lockdowns of the past 3 years, interest in homewares and particularly kitchen appliances has rocketed. The most popular lockdown homewares purchases in the USA, for instance, were air fryers – of course – juicers and Sodastream-style fizzy drink makers. If you’ve discovered or rediscovered your love for home-cooked food in this period, you may now want to step it up to the next level. These powerful kitchen upgrades will all be on sale in 2022, with 2 of them available now. Their combination of innovation, versatility, usefulness and high-tone swankiness are hard to resist, if you ask me.
Haier Series 6 Chef@Home oven
(Image credit: Haier)
(Image credit: Haier)
Haier has been trying to find ways to make its H.On – H(aier) On; get it?! –connected kitchen productstruly useful in recent years. That’s included innovations such as a fridge that knows from your phone that you are on your way home from the supermarket, so it lowers its temperature ready for you to open the door and stash your new food purchases.
This year, it’s taking things to the next level with this Series 6 Chef@Home oven. Modern ovens at the more expensive end of the scale feature touchscreen controls instead of knobs and buttons. That looks great but can make them hard to control. Haier wants to overcome this in several ways.
First there is a HUGE touchscreen instead of a small touch panel – it takes up the entire front of the oven, as you can see. Then there’s a built-in mic, so you can control key settings viaAlexa.
(Image credit: Haier)
(Image credit: Haier)
NEFF I88WMM1S7 N 90 Glass Draft downdraft hood
Image1of2(Image credit: NEFF)NEFF’s worktop level extractor: now you see it……Now you don’t(Image credit: NEFF)
Image1of2(Image credit: NEFF)NEFF’s worktop level extractor: now you see it……Now you don’t(Image credit: NEFF)
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(Image credit: NEFF)NEFF’s worktop level extractor: now you see it……Now you don’t(Image credit: NEFF)
(Image credit: NEFF)NEFF’s worktop level extractor: now you see it……Now you don’t(Image credit: NEFF)
(Image credit: NEFF)NEFF’s worktop level extractor: now you see it…
(Image credit: NEFF)NEFF’s worktop level extractor: now you see it…
(Image credit: NEFF)
(Image credit: NEFF)
(Image credit: NEFF)
NEFF’s worktop level extractor: now you see it…
NEFF’s worktop level extractor: now you see it…
…Now you don’t(Image credit: NEFF)
…Now you don’t(Image credit: NEFF)
…Now you don’t(Image credit: NEFF)
…Now you don’t(Image credit: NEFF)
…Now you don’t(Image credit: NEFF)
A massive trend in kitchens right now is extraction done at worktop level rather than from above. Usually this involves recirculating the air, since it involves sucking it into a unit below the hob, although if your kitchen layout is right, air can also be extracted instead. It also usually involves pulling the steam, smoke, particles and smells through a grate in the hob itself. NEFF’s I88WMM1S7 N 90 is different. It can be added to any island or worktop and comprises a stylish glass ‘hood’ that rises out from behind your hob at the touch of a button.
Turning your cooking into a piece of theatre, the hood includes LED lighting with 25 million colour options, available via a smartphone app. That’s great if you’re entertaining, but it also helps make even the most mundane evening meal more fun.
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Maximum air extraction is 775 m³/h and even in Boost mode, the I88WMM1S7 N 90 is surprisingly quiet – just 70dB. In non-boost mode it tops out at an even quieter 65dB. The steel grease filter can easily be popped out for cleaning in the dishwasher. A ‘Filter Saturation Indicator’ actually tells you when to do this!
Ninja SmartLid Multi-Cookers
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(Image credit: Ninja)
As we said in ourNinja Foodi 11-in-1 SmartLid Multi-Cooker OL550UK review,this miracle pot has most of what any aspiring chef wants – it’s currently one of the biggest sellers atAmazon. However, if you really want to step it up, the Ninja Foodi MAX 15-in-1 SmartLid Multi-Cooker OL750UK adds even more cooking functionsanda temperature probe. This monitors the internal temperature of anything you cook – cakes and meats are the most obvious uses – and shuts off when your meal is perfectly done to your liking.
As the names suggest, these SmartLid pots are not just Instant Pot-style pressure cookers and with an air fryer thrown in. You can do everything from baking to grilling, searing and roasting. This is a device that could easily replace your oven on hob for most purposes.
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