Kitchen Appliance Trends Add Value
The best kitchen appliances express your personal style, as well as add value to your home. And, oh yes, kitchen appliances also help you store and prepare food.
If you’re renovating your kitchen, building a kitchen as part of new construction, or just need to replace some kitchen appliances, there are trends in the best kitchen appliances of 2023 for you to consider.
Here are a few trends in the best kitchen appliances of 2023 to look out for:
Induction Cooktops
While induction cooktops aren’t anything new (they’ve been available in the U.S. for about 20 years), they are becoming an increasingly popular kitchen appliance in 2023. There are three reasons for this. One is that the flat cooktop is flush with the surrounding countertop, making it a particularly good choice for today’s modern, sleek kitchen designs. Secondly, induction cooktops are easy to clean up. And finally, consider the increasing regulations prohibiting gas ranges in new construction.
The one drawback to induction cooktops is you may need to buy new cookware; induction cooktops rely on a magnetic current to heat food, so you need cookware that can conduct magnetic energy. However, if you’ve got stainless steel cookware with perfectly flat bottoms, see if a magnet sticks to it. If the magnet does stick, you can use what you already have.
Storage, Storage, Storage
Building in more storage for your kitchen cuts clutter and helps you get organized. That’s not just a 2023 kitchen appliances trend. It’s simply good design. Built-in storage areas make your kitchen more efficient with a better aesthetic through 2023 and beyond.
One storage solution in particular to consider is a wine cooler. Gaggenau, for example, makes an under-the-counter 24-inch, stainless steel wine cooler, as well as a full-fledged wine cabinet with a glass door.
Wine storage units are more than just a place to keep your wine. It’s a way to keep your wine protected from excessive heat, humidity, and light. According to the Wine Enthusiast, variations in temperature and humidity can “wreak havoc on your beloved wines.” The answer may be “looking into investing in a temperature controlled wine refrigerator…This way you can be sure that one way or another your wine is fully protected and ages exactly how it was intended.”
Not to mention how good a wine cabinet can look in your kitchen!
Steam Ovens
Steam ovens are one of the fastest-growing trends in the best kitchen appliances of 2023. A reservoir in the steam oven is filled with water, and then heat turns the water into steam. Food cooked with steam retains moisture better than food cooked in a conventional oven, which helps retain more vitamins and minerals. It is also considered a more sanitized way of cooking.
Steam ovens, such as Wolf steam ovens, are often combined with convection cooking. The advantages of a steam convection oven combination includes:
- Consistent heating and browning by using convection
- Steam adds moisture, which keeps food juicy without extra oil and fat
- Less risk of overcooking food
- No more messy boil-overs
- Breads, bagels, and pastries are easily proofed, baked, and crisped
- Meats defrost gently and evenly, and hot spots are eliminated
Steam ovens make cooking easier. Prep time is reduced, so there’s less time spent in a hot kitchen. Many steam oven manufacturers, such as Miele and Wolf, offer customer classes and guided recipes for use with their products. Once you have one, you’ll agree that steam ovens are more than just hot air.
Cool-Looking Refrigerators
Refrigerators are getting numerous upgrades, making them one of the biggest trends in the best kitchen appliances of 2023. Gone are the days of choices limited to white, cream, or stainless steel colors. Today, you can get glass doors or panels that match your cabinetry, or colors like bisque or bronze, purple or red, or even multicolored. You can even get under-the-counter models.
Once, you only had a choice between whether you wanted a freezer on the bottom or the top. In 2023, you can choose to not even have a freezer. You get to decide on food zones that compartmentalize the different types of food you wish to store. Not to mention water and ice dispensers on the outside of the door.
Even ice makers are getting hip. If you’re a cocktail enthusiast, you’ll appreciate new models that produce spherical-shaped ice to dress up your evening libations.
Refrigerators are also getting smarter, with features such as the ability to:
- Mirror video from your smart TV, phone or tablet, or video doorbell
- Browse the internet
- Control the refrigerator using either an app or voice control
- Stream music
- Store and access recipes
- Create family schedules on a shared calendar
- Write notes on a touchscreen whiteboard
Wi-Fi
Which brings us to one of the more popular trends in the best kitchen appliances of 2023—wi-fi capability. We live in the age when everyone and everything is connected; in 2023, that includes your kitchen appliances.
This allows you to set the temperature of your refrigerator, the temperature and timing of your ovens and stove tops, the timers on your microwave, even the lights in your kitchen, from the comfort and convenience of your own smartphone. Driving home, you can get your oven to preheat as a jumpstart on preparing the night’s dinner. Forget to turn the dishwasher on before you left? No problem, just turn it on using your appliance app.
Your Best Kitchen Appliances Experts
BSC Culinary offers a range of the best kitchen appliances that have the trends you are looking for. We’re here to help you choose the best kitchen appliances that fit your kitchen style and deliver the highest functionality and convenience.
Every kitchen appliance we sell includes installation and delivery. A dedicated Enjoy Life Counselor ensures error-free delivery and installation. You can even track delivery on the day of the appointment.
BSC installation technicians are qualified and insured. Your kitchen appliances are installed professionally and to your complete satisfaction. If you prefer, BSC can provide contactless delivery, a trend that started with the pandemic and that we continue to offer.
Contact us to further discuss the many features and benefits of trends in the best kitchen appliances of 2023 and beyond.