A major appliance, or domestic appliance, is a large machine in home appliance used for routine housekeeping tasks such as cooking, washing laundry, or food preservation. An appliance is different from a plumbing fixture because it uses electricity or fuel.
Major appliances, also known as white goods, comprise major household appliances and may include: air conditioners, dishwashers, clothes dryers, drying cabinets, freezers, refrigerators, kitchen stoves, water heaters, washing machines, trash compactors, microwave ovens and induction cookers. White goods were typically painted or enameled white, and many of them still are.
Major appliances differ from small appliances because they are bigger and not portable. They are often considered fixtures and part of real estate and as such they are often supplied to tenants as part of otherwise unfurnished rental properties. Major appliances may have special electrical connections, connections to gas supplies, or special plumbing and ventilation arrangements that may be permanently connected to the appliance. This limits where they can be placed in a home.
Small appliances are typically small household electrical machines, easily carried and installed. Some are classified with white goods, and relate to heating and cooling such as: fans and window mounted air conditioners, and heaters such as space heaters, ceramic heaters, gas heaters, kerosene heaters, and fan heaters. Yet another category is used in the kitchen, including: juicers, electric mixers, meat grinders, coffee grinders, deep fryers, herb grinders, food processors, electric kettles, waffle irons, coffee makers, blenders and dough blenders, rice cookers, toasters and exhaust hoods.
Entertainment and information appliances such as: home electronics, TV sets, CD, VCRs and DVD players, camcorders, still cameras, clocks, alarm clocks, video game consoles, HiFi and home cinema, telephones and answering machines are classified as "brown goods". Some such appliances were traditionally finished with genuine or imitation wood. This has become rare but the name has stuck, even for goods that are unlikely ever to have had a wooden case.
I know this is not what you are expecting from a Yale Appliance blog. We will return with appliance-related articles tomorrow.
GE Profile and Samsung are two companies you should consider for a new induction range.
Two of the best gas ranges you can buy are Café Appliances, the CGS750P4MW2 and the Samsung NX58K9850SS (their better 60 model is not new and not as popular yet).
You can save on the sales tax and have 18 months to pay, but the selection will be maddening.
Over the last few years, refrigerators have become more technical.
You can now see the inside of your fridge from an app on your phone.
The Café Appliances CGS750P4MW2 is a unique range with plenty of exclusive features.
It's Café Appliances' best range.
In this article, you will learn about their best specs from the cooktop, oven, overall aesthetic, and reliability based on real service data.
Ever read the fine print on anything? Whether it’s your 16-page car leasing contract or your Apple subscription renewal.
Sometimes when there is an issue you wish you did. This may be one of those times. But you will learn about that later.
If you are looking to buy a counter depth refrigerator, you may have a problem.
Combination steam ovens are one of the most efficient and healthy ways to prepare food.
Although Miele and Bosch historically dominate premium dishwashers, KitchenAid has quietly built a competitive dishwasher.
Editor’s Note: Shopping for appliances will be challenging in 2020-2021. Many factories have had COVID-19 contamination somewhere in their supply chain for parts, factories, or warehouses.
If you owned or were buying a laundromat, Speed Queen and Maytag are the two best names. Given the beating these machines take on a semi-regular basis, you would expect both to be solid and reliable.
Adding a custom cabinet panel to a dishwasher and making it look good is hard. Most brands like KitchenAid, GE, and Whirlpool will protrude from the cabinet, ruining the look.
It’s a nice calm Saturday.
We originally wrote this article in 2015. At that time, True was just starting to manufacture a residential refrigerator.
