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My impression of the design world is that new stuff shows up when people are "bored" with something, and they can easily get bored when that something is popular/everywhere. It doesn't have to be a kitchen, it can be home decor, home colors, clothes, cars anything. In fact, I'm told, that...

Well, at the very least until the late 90's in Massachusetts, Calgon used to be sold in 3 formulas: "P" was full phosphates, "R" was "restricted" phosphates for areas where it was restricted, and "Z" was zeolites for areas where there was a phosphate ban. Truth be told, I think at that point...

My impression is that the ideal kitchen is one whose color scheme will allow for *any* single appliance to be replaced and still look good. Because, really, I don't want to have to replace all of them at once because one of them dies/died. And the worst part is that in the past 20 years the...

My google-fu is not strong today. In any case, I've found a company that seems to make power equipment and have clients like medical/military installations that usually need power conversion. I submitted a request for info (price etc) on behalf of a "friend who just moved from Germany" and...

Greg, that seems to only change the voltage -- Launderess seems to have access to 240V, what she needs is to go from 60Hz to 50Hz. There are frequency transformers that are electronic and probably expensive, because they depend on solid state electronics that are rather spendy. In the past...

Congratulations and enjoy it in good health!!!

People mention different things to explain why Americans did not get cozy with very high temperature wash: we have 120V as standard (240V outlets are not found everywhere, even when people have a single home and could pay for someone to install it), hot and cold fill hookups are usually...

Well, if I remember right, there were two other videos, one of the Assistent and one of the Universal Plus -- she compares them to a KA, and it's just weird. My experience whipping egg whites or cream, or making cakes or cookies, for example, differ from her demonstrations. It was much easier...

I've watched many of her videos and find them entertaining, and have at times learned something interesting or new. But her videos on the Bosch and Ankarsrum (former Electrolux Assistent) leave a lot to be desired. I think she is so used to mixers like the KA that she is unable to use the other...

Everyone points out the plates/bowls, but I really worry that the *cups* which are nesting together (both in the front-loading and top-loading machines) will not get clean either.

Accent Austin, Like Eddie said, Accent is just a food enhancer -- whatever MSG you have lying around will probably work the same should you choose to use it. In many countries, the most common/popular brand is Aji-No-Moto, but there's a chance that a few decades ago, when people started...

Congratulations and enjoy it in good health!!!

Ralph (Chachp): Wow! Yeah, I've heard of the problem, thank God it never happened to me 'cuz I was lucky enough to be reading posts from people who had one. You have a sweet machine! I've seen them at Lowe's about 15 years ago or so, was severely tempted, but at the time we were dealing with...

I will second PeteK: if you prepare a lot of food at once, get a Bosch Universal Plus. If you prepare food in smaller quantities (particularly if you were satisfied with a tilt-head KA), you can get a Bosch Compact for even less. Or you could get an Electrolux Assistent (currently known as...

LOL, Bob! No, I have not been to your kitchen. But like you, I see people claiming their dishwasher doesn't fit much and I think they're probably not loading it right. Also, I'm not averse to putting items in ways I'm not sure will get cleaned and find out. I've been pleasantly surprised many...

I can't see that "working with most 24-inch dishwashers" at all. Particularly the ones with the tower in the middle, the first time someone slides that rack inside without paying attention, they might clip out the tower, at least in the older machines I remember with the "saucer rack" in the...

Thomas, *even* if you love strong scents, trust me, it's not necessary -- if you got say, Gain in original scent, you can use an unscented fabric softener and *everyone* in a 10 meter radius can still smell it. If you use an unscented detergent, you can use the Gain fabric softener, same deal...

A few years ago we had some kind of Purex Crystals show up at the local supermarkets -- at that time, the things were supposed to be "in-wash fabric softeners", and indeed, they contained some form of bentonite, which is what detergents like Bold 2-in-1 and dryer sheets like Bounce tend to use...

People have not given up on buying an "all-in-one" like detergent and softener for example -- we have had multiple iterations of "Tide with a Touch of Downy" or "...Febreze"etc., after Solo and Bold were discontinued (multiple times it seems, every couple of years or so we'd see Bold back on the...

Happy Birthday, Alistair and Richard!!!