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Small kitchen appliances are just that—compact appliances for the most part, usually kept on the countertop or stored in a cabinet for easy and daily or near-daily use.
The most frequently seen small appliance on any kitchen countertop is probably a dead heat between a toaster and a coffeemaker. Today, toasters are as varied as any other household gadget—they come in the classic two- or four-slice oblong-cut style, the two- or four-slice crosscut-style, and many with multiple settings for light or dark toast and even types of breadstuffs including bagels or even muffins.
They also continue to come in the long-popular toaster-oven combination of flat-rack toaster and small pastry or food baking oven, open from the front, and mostly styled not very different from the General Electric Toast-R-Oven model introduced in the early 1960s. The brands are many—Black & Decker, Breville, Conair, Cuisinart, General Electric, Hamilton Beach, Kitchen-Aid, Procter-Silex, Sunbeam, and T-Fal—and their prices range from basic $10 two-slicers to top-of-the-line, all-metal four-slicers near $100 and even higher.
Coffeemakers today come mostly in drip-style machines—in which you brew through a filtered basket and your coffee drips into a large pot or carafe—but there are still some classic-style percolators (with the brew basket inside the pot) on the market, such as the Cuisinart PRC-12 for $59.95. One exception to the carafe- or pot-brewing drip coffeemaker is the still-popular Hamilton Beach Brew Station, which brews on the drip-style principle of a filtered basket but fills the coffee in a tank from which a user dispenses a single cup at a time. Other popular conventional drip coffeemakers include those made by Black & Decker, Briel, Bunn, Cuisinart, Hamilton Beach, and Proctor-Silex. Their prices range from $19.95 for a basic drip machine to as high as $200 for specialised machines that grind as well as brew.
Other small appliances popular for starting a new home kitchen include, still, countertop food and drink blenders, can openers, and food mixers or food processors. Some residents or homeowners may still want to add such items as electric frying pans, individual coffee grinders, electric slicers, and even quick-cooking sandwich presses or countertop broilers. The appliances in the kitchen reflect above all a resident’s or homeowner’s culinary way of life and personality.
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