Fisher Paykel preview

It took me two days to get through the million square feet of KBIS last year at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Two days of new products at a trade show is exhausting let me tell you. Toward the end of my second day I came across the very large tradeshow booth of the New Zealand-based appliance manufacturer Fisher Paykel .

Referring to a first-rate producer's KBIS display as a sales space most effective illustrates how confined our language may be some instances. The large players and groups who need to be perceived as massive gamers invest loads of heaps of bucks of their displays at theses occasions. Kohler, Wolf/ Sub-Zero, DalTile, and so forth. Build shows large than maximum homes. Then they team of workers them with HGTV display hosts and all and sundry marvels on the sheer excess of the complete manufacturing. For an event that closed to the public, it is a enormous event each yr.

Anyhow, I'd constantly regarded Fisher Paykel for its drawer dishwasher and concept that it became the handiest component they made. That become until I came across the 10,000 rectangular ft of Fisher Paykel's full courtroom press into the American appliance market. To call these men innovative is a sarcasm. These guys are out to begin a revolution.

The first of these photos shows their Luna gas cook top which they debuted last year. I see and deal with appliances every day and it takes a lot to impress me. The Luna about threw me over the edge. It is a glass cook top for starters and when it's not turned on it looks for all the world like any other glass cook top. However, when it's turned on the burner and posts that serve as the rack rise up from the glass surface. It's like magic. A lit gas burner rising up from a black glass surface stopped me in my tracks. Damn the expense, that thing is COOL! If you expand the photo to the left, you can see both lit and unlit burners on that cook top. Notice that not only to the burners rise up from the surface, so does the control knob. Astounding!

They haven't stopped at gas cook tops either. They are now making a French door refrigerator. But then again, so is just about everyone in the refrigerator business now. As expected, the Fisher Paykel version ratchets up the competition a couple of notches. Notice that the in-door ice dispenser is on one of the refrigerator doors but the ice maker itself would have to be in the freezer in order to work efficiently. So they've found a way to transport the ice up about 18 inches to the dispenser. Wow. The mechanics of the ice maker are actually housed in the space between the refrigeration compartment and the freezer compartment. The result is zero loss of cubic feet inside of either space. In a counter-depth refrigerator ever cubic inch counts.

Most French door models that have an on board ice maker dispense the ice right into a tray inside of the freezer, hence taking up room better used by cartons of peas and pints of Haagen Dazs. At a retail fee of around $2500, the relaxation of the industry may be watching this one.

Fisher Paykel is now making seasoned levels for the American marketplace as properly. When it comes to professional, dual-gasoline ranges, my coronary heart will continually belong to Wolf. A Wolf is a feat of engineering and it's far a purchase you are making as soon as. Nothing works like one, not anything lasts as long and no different pro range available on the market has the equal fee as a Wolf. At least not in its rate point. That charge point is quite steep although. A forty eight-inch twin-fuel Wolf will set you lower back $10,000. Like I said, it's a purchase you may make as soon as.

But a Wolf looks as if a Wolf. A massive twin fuel variety won't constantly go well in designs that call for something a touch greater contemporary-searching. Not so inside the hands of Fisher Paykel. Their forty eight" seasoned variety has the improvements I'd count on from them and they're at half of the rate of a Wolf. Still, $5000 is lots of cash to spend on a range however the next time I'm looking to prepare a huge-finances modern-day kitchen, you can bet that I'm specifying this splendor from Fisher Paykel.