Posted on Tue, 19 Jul 2011
Lust After De Dietrich’s New Piano
We just ran a story on Steinway & Sons, so how about another piano story? But while this is no instrument you can play Chopin on, you can most certainly do culinary magic if your skills allow. Then again, this cooking hob is superbly poetic and gets our stamp as a simply fabulicious gadget to lust after and splurge on once money for your child’s education has been set aside.
I mean, look at this! It’s a cooking hob with no fixed rings where you have to place your pots on. It’s an open plan cooking zone which blasts away all paradigms about working the stove. Put a pot here and a pan there, move it about anyway you fancy, and it still cooks for you. Squeeze a little and you may even fit all your pans on top. This is De Dietrich’s latest baby, Le Piano.
There’s new technology in here which allows five pots at a time ‘whatever their size or shape’, and they don’t all have to be at the same temperature too. (They anticipated that!) Three pre-set modes helps make things versatile: the solo function where the entire cooking area is set at a uniform temperature; the piano function where you get three separate and independent cooking zones, each with its own adjustable setting and finally, the most impressive expert function. Here, the hob ‘recognises’ the cooking pans and memorises chosen settings. The pans can be moved anywhere on the hob surface and the settings remain programmed for up to 5 different saucepans at the same time. This swanky toy comes in 90cm models only and is priced at $12,888.
La Galerie De Dietrich
The Cendex
120 Lower Delta Road #01-04
Tel: 65084600
