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Home
coffee making, with customers
snapping up La Pavoni
machines ( 2 , £750,
selfridges.com).
Should you be interested in
the latest tech, you may like to
take a trip to the biennial
kitchen trade fair KBB at the
NEC in Birmingham next
month. Innovations include:
lQuooker is launching the
Cube Duo, an accessory that
fits on to any Quooker tap,
4 , and delivers instant chilled,
filtered and sparkling water
(quooker.co.uk)
lRorosHetta Sense says it is
the “world’s smartest cooker
hood”, combining the least
amount of noise and energy
usage while regulating indoor
air quality (roroshetta.co/en)
lLiebherr’s latest fridge
freezer, the ICBdi 5182 Peak
BioFresh, 5 , has HydroBreeze,
a chilled mister that “ensures
crisp freshness and improves
structure” (liebherr.com)Victoria Brzezinski and
Katrina BurroughsT
he most irksome
kitchen challenge
in 2022 is not what
colour to paint
your cupboards
but the scarcity of appliances.
According to research by
the trade journal KBB Review,
lead times on appliances are
at their longest for 40 years.
Richard Hibbert, managing
director of the Suffolk kitchen
design studio KSL Sudbury
(kitchens from £25,000,
kslsudbury.co.uk), says the
wait for the most popular
brands of ovens, steam ovens
and combi-microwaves is
about 10-14 weeks, venting
hobs 14-16 weeks and
dishwashers 12 weeks.
If you have room, there’s a
new army of small appliances
vying for your counter space.
Slow cookers and air fryers
were 2021’s most googled
kitchen gadgets. At Lakeland
air fryer sales were up by
57 per cent in 2021 compared
with 2020. For the uninitiated,
the newest models can do farmore than chips. Breville’s
Rotisserie Air Fryer has a
ten-litre capacity that can
accommodate a small-to-
medium chicken ( 3 , £149.99,
lakeland.co.uk). For those who
failed to get an outdoor pizza
oven from Gozney or Ooni last
year, consider a Sage tabletop
Pizzaiolo. Despite its bulky
size and £599 price tag, John
Lewis customers are raving.
Or how about an automated
garden in the kitchen ( 1 , on
the right of the room, £5,890,
natufia.com)?
Eleanor Gregory, buying
manager for Selfridges, notes
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From Quooker taps to smart cooker hoods and
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