In a hark back to the days of Bauknecht mini-kitchens and Candy Trios GE is betting that smaller urban homes will open up a niche market for it’s new micro kitchen concept.
General Electric’s appliance micro-factory called FirstBuild designed this micro kitchen in 2014 that is currently in the development phase. While the whole kitchen is only about six feet wide it includes a hob, oven, microwave, sink, dishwasher, fridge, and freezer.
How “concept” this is remains unclear as GE have told press that the finished product is expected to cost in the range of $7,000 to $15,000 in the USA depending on the features.
Clearly not a budget product but we wouldn’t be surprised to see this sort of all-in-one type unit appearing in Europe for use particularly in densely populated large cities such as London, Paris, Berlin and so on. Currently however there appears no plans to bring this new micro kitchen to the UK or Europe.
GE are also reported to be still in the process of working out kinks (like conforming to building codes in different US cities) as well as the final design.
We have seen this kind of thing before, albeit with less packed into a smaller space, they do tend to be on the pricey side and when that time does roll around when they need to be replaced it can be a challenge to do so, depending on how the space it is installed to is designed.
Servicing this however, we’d guess, will not be fun.
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