May 7th, 2012 by Keri Algar

Front loaders and top loaders have been the latest appliances under consumer scrutiny as part of Canstar Blue's most satisfied customer survey. Electrolux cleaned up the competition for the most satisfied customers award for front loader washing machines in front of Samsung, LG, Bosch, Fisher & Paykel, Simpson and Whirlpool. The brands were pitched against each other in categories including value for money, ease of use, noise, design, ... Read more

May 7th, 2012 by Keri Algar

Haier's presence is growing in Australia as it takes on a national sales manager and announces the release of new appliances. In 2010 Fisher & Paykel took over sales and marketing of Haier in Australia, offering its excellent after sales service as part of the deal. Since then, Haier has been able to concentrate on increasing its distribution and introducing new appliances into Australia. According to Haier, it ... Read more

May 3rd, 2012 by Keri Algar

For a change, today we look at a different sort of vacuum. Not a Hoover, nor a Dyson, but the vacuum that is space. The giant leap from an appliance to empty matter comes as a 1 in 10,000 year occurrence involving a vacuum has been witnessed. There has been a flurry of activity this week among astronomers after a team of professional star gasers in Hawaii found a ... Read more

May 3rd, 2012 by Keri Algar

A new gadget called Twine can get appliances to text, tweet and e-mail you. For those with un-smart appliances, you know, the ordinary kind of oven that doesn't count the calories of the the food it's cooking, or the fridge which won't tell you when the milk is off, then Twine will bridge the gap from dumb to smart. Say it has been left on top of the ... Read more

May 3rd, 2012 by Keri Algar

A squiz inside a family's fridge can offer some revealing insights to their culinary likes and dislikes. Is there a sweet tooth in the family? A carnivore, kids, or enough spicy sauces to harbour a Mexican mistress? There is a bit one can decipher from the contents, or lack of! Like the bachelor with his six pack of beer in an otherwise bare fridge. Poking around a couple of ... Read more

May 1st, 2012 by Keri Algar

With all the Mother's Day madness it's easy to forget the 12,000 stay at home Dads in Australia. What are their favourite appliances and which make life easier? Brett Lahman lives in Brisbane and takes care of his and his wife's two (adorable) children, Georgie (aged six) and Kai (aged four). This morning, Kai used three plates and three knifes for breakfast. So Lahman's favourite appliance? The dishwasher. "Everything goes ... Read more

April 30th, 2012 by Keri Algar

When selecting the right appliances for our kitchen we often look to the experts for guidance. What appliances do chefs find practical, easy to use, and efficient? A recent dinnertime debate between gas cooktops (the mother) and induction cooktops (the daughter) became muted when the daughter asked the table which famous chefs used induction. No one came to mind quickly enough, her point proven. (What is induction?) However, of course ... Read more

April 30th, 2012 by Keri Algar

A recent coffee machine survey has uncovered some surprising ideas about Australia's latte love affair. The survey set out to pitch a few popular espresso coffee machine brands against each other, measured by customer satisfaction of their ability to make a good cup of coffee, ease of use, reliability and value for money - pretty stock standard metrics. What the surveyors at Canstar Blue  found however, was that only a ... Read more

April 25th, 2012 by Keri Algar

At Appliances Online there's nothing we like more than quirky vacuuming news. But this one has made us wonder: are smart appliances colluding to keep us trim? There's the LG fridge which politely suggests we reach for a healthy option, and the Samsung oven that can tell us how many calories the meal cooking contains. Now, a new vacuum cleaner will work out how many of those calories we've ... Read more

April 24th, 2012 by Keri Algar

It's not only a fishy smell that indicates if fish is fresh or not. And unless we've been lucky enough to catch it ourselves, we can never really be too sure how fresh the fish at the market is. Fostering a good relationship will our local fishmonger will help, we might even get a wink and a bonus lemon every once and a while as well! Otherwise,  we ... Read more