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A median freezer costs 90.33 euros a year in electricity, but two models in the same energy class can cost almost twice as much. We read 9,588 EPREL sheets and compared t...
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...
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...
Cleaning a microwave is not about looks: the manual puts it under a safety warning. We compared the Bosch manual with the support pages of the same manufacturer, and on t...
The microwave is the one kitchen appliance with no energy label, and yet all the figures needed to work out what it costs are there: they are in the manual. We ran the nu...
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 ...
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 ...
Two 9 kg heat pump tumble dryers, two brands, 57.22 euros apart. We opened both EU product fiches line by line: out of twenty-four comparable entries only one is differen...
The official BSH spare parts list is public and holds 875 part numbers with a price next to each one. The components that fail first are under 20 euros, while the control...
A dishwasher uses exactly the same number of kWh and litres on every cycle, full or half empty: all that changes is how many plates come out. Filling it halfway exactly d...
An 8 kg washer-dryer does not dry 8 kg: it dries 5, and the same label carries two energy classes calculated on different scales. We read seven EU product fiches for Bosc...
How often you should clean the filter, the condenser and the tank of a tumble dryer is not a tip: it is information Regulation (EU) 2023/2533 obliges the manufacturer to ...
The Bosch WQB245B0IT is a top-tier 9 kg heat pump tumble dryer: 1.10 kWh per cycle, 74.53 euros of energy a year and a condenser that needs no manual cleaning. Its EU inf...
Since 1 October 2026 a kilowatt-hour costs 43.43 cents including taxes, against 31.63 in the previous quarter. Five appliances in an ordinary household go from 233.84 to ...
