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Bosch Series 4, Bosch Series 6, or Siemens: three built-in freezers with eleven identical EPREL fields and a price that varies by up to 22.5%. We compared the data sheets to see where the difference comes from.
Built-in or countertop, which one is worth it? We read the spec sheet of 149 microwaves, not the product title: only 9 are genuinely countertop, and Bosch doesn't sell a ...
We rechecked two twin Bosch and Siemens appliances today: in sixteen days one price rose 14%, under the same printed discount. The other genuinely fell. Here is how to te...
The 25.5 centimetre turntable is the real ceiling of this built-in microwave, more than the declared volume. And the quartz grill, which combines with the microwaves at 1...
The watts written on the box are output power, not the power you pay for: an 800 W microwave draws 1,270, and the top level drops to 600 W on long cooking. We read eight ...
The number on the spec sheet describes the appliance, not the opening that has to hold it. We split 47,224 refrigerators and freezers from the European registry by instal...
A chest freezer uses less than an upright only because it is bigger: at equal volume the two formats are equivalent, 87.8 against 89.8 kWh per 100 litres between 200 and ...
The months printed on frozen food packs only hold at 18 degrees below zero, and that is not a rule of thumb but a regulated value: 87.94% of the four star compartments in...
The fridge hums or will not cool, and the first thought is a technician. Yet two of the three most worrying symptoms are already written on the appliance's datasheet: we ...
Nobody states how many years a fridge lasts. What the law does put in writing is something else: how long it stays repairable. We read the 56,511 records of the European ...
Almost every fridge on display carries an E, and the sector looks stuck. We read 62 Bosch and Siemens EU product information sheets: 39 models declare an efficiency index...
A Bosch KIR81VFE0 fridge costs 772.62 euro, the Siemens KI81RVFE0 costs 1,061.28. The two EU fiches differ on three lines out of 109. We read 230 official fiches, isolate...
The Bosch DBB97AM60 traps 90.2% of grease, the highest figure among the twenty official fiches we compared, and on the same line it declares class B. We checked airflow, ...
Four Bosch and Siemens hoods, 60 and 80 cm wide, declare exactly the same fiche and differ by up to 165.82 euro. We compared twenty official fiches: the number almost eve...
The four zones of the Bosch PUE611BB5D add up to 12.1 kW with PowerBoost, yet the appliance draws no more than 3,700 W. We read the spec sheet and the manual to work out ...
Three Bosch Serie 8 ovens that look identical cost 783.58, 810.98 and 922.75 euros, and the EU information sheet tells them apart by weight alone. The real differences ar...
The Bosch KGN36NLEA declares 305 liters, 239 kWh per year, class E and 42 dB(A). Class E on a scale that goes up to A seems like a failure, and it isn't: in the six Bosch...
Induction transfers 85-90% of energy to the pan, gas 40-55%. But a kWh of electricity costs about two and a half times more than a kWh of gas: the most efficient cooktop ...
Choose a built-in oven starting from the unit, not from the technical specifications: if the niche isn't the right one, nothing else matters. Measurements, capacity, cook...
Pyrolytic and catalytic are two very different oven self-cleaning systems, not two versions of the same one. The pyrolytic system burns off dirt in a dedicated high-tempe...
