ᐅ Planning kitchen appliances: How to approach it. The market is overwhelming.
Created on: 11 Sep 2017 12:34
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G-Star1988
Hello everyone,
I have an appointment at the kitchen studio next Saturday and I’m preparing for it. Specifically, I’m looking for the appliances I want to have later in the kitchen. I’ve been researching a lot from brands like Neff / Siemens, Miele, Bora, etc., but I’m not making much progress.
For example, the current selection at Siemens looks like this:
Dishwasher IQ300 SN636X03MD
Oven IQ700 HB634GBS1
Microwave IQ500 HF15M264
Cooktop with integrated downdraft extractor EX801LX34E
or
2 x Cooktop IQ700 EX375FXB1E with extractor IQ700 LF16VA570
(The cooktop with integrated downdraft is the only fixed requirement, unfortunately I don’t have any influence on that ^^)
I actually value quality, energy efficiency, and a balanced price-performance ratio. But how can I find out if what you pick is really good? Or if there are possibly cheaper but equally high-quality products from other manufacturers. For example, the cooktop with integrated downdraft extractor from Miele—according to the catalog, it’s cheaper but just as good or even better?
How do you approach this?
I have an appointment at the kitchen studio next Saturday and I’m preparing for it. Specifically, I’m looking for the appliances I want to have later in the kitchen. I’ve been researching a lot from brands like Neff / Siemens, Miele, Bora, etc., but I’m not making much progress.
For example, the current selection at Siemens looks like this:
Dishwasher IQ300 SN636X03MD
Oven IQ700 HB634GBS1
Microwave IQ500 HF15M264
Cooktop with integrated downdraft extractor EX801LX34E
or
2 x Cooktop IQ700 EX375FXB1E with extractor IQ700 LF16VA570
(The cooktop with integrated downdraft is the only fixed requirement, unfortunately I don’t have any influence on that ^^)
I actually value quality, energy efficiency, and a balanced price-performance ratio. But how can I find out if what you pick is really good? Or if there are possibly cheaper but equally high-quality products from other manufacturers. For example, the cooktop with integrated downdraft extractor from Miele—according to the catalog, it’s cheaper but just as good or even better?
How do you approach this?
RobsonMKK schrieb:
Neff, Siemens, and Bosch are basically the same.That’s not quite true; the Neff downdraft extractor is significantly different from Bosch’s version...KingSong schrieb:
That is not correct; the Neff downdraft extractor differs significantly from the Bosch one... I think what RobsonMKK meant was:
"BSH markets, in addition to the main brands Bosch, Siemens, Gaggenau, and Neff, also the brands Junker and Viva. BSH also distributes the brands Thermador, Balay, Coldex, Constructa, Pitsos, Profilo, Ufesa, and Zelmer in various countries."
Source: Wikipedia
There may be some models where this does not apply, but for many models, the differences are mainly stylistic details. For example, in some dishwashers, the basket is red in NEFF models and blue in Siemens models, while the rest is identical.
Whether StudioLine equivalents exist under NEFF, I do not know. To my knowledge, the Slide&Hide oven is currently offered only by NEFF. However, large parts of the product range do have significant overlaps, and I believe that is what RobsonMKK was referring to.
You just need to be careful with Siemens. The brand within BSH is also supposed to be aggressively priced, allowing MediaMarkt to offer a promotion for €349 per washing machine, which they don’t do with Bosch. They take a machine from a large factory in Portugal that also produces for Amica or Ignis, put a Siemens label on it, but it’s not really a Siemens because a genuine one doesn’t come at that price. Karsten
Tonight, our Ikea dishwasher Skinande is running for the first time. The operation is quite self-explanatory. However, it is noticeably louder than the Bosch in our old house. Whatever Skinande is, Bosch is better. If you have an open kitchen, do not choose Skinande. Our kitchen is not open. There is a 17.5 cm (7 inches) wall between it and the living room. So it does not bother us. Karsten
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