Juniper Foo | Jul 22, 2004
The future of cooking never looked so yummy. While the majority of Asian Chinese probably prefer open fire cooking for wok frying, those who treat their kitchens as showrooms will lust after
Küppersbusch's Cooking Tiles. What's cooking is the German company's flush-fitting "honeycomb" cooktops which clearly take the cake for designer stovetops. Hegaxonal modular glass ceramic plates and controls let you comb through any countertop configuration or shape you want, up to 28 possible layouts. Now if they only had it in matte pink.
Price: From US$550 per zone; control unit separate at US$1,750
Availability: In the US and Germany
Device: Electric cooktops
Basic specs: Control unit for up to six cooking zones, nine-level power controls, residual heat indicators, automatic safety cutoff time, child-safety lock, 10.8kW electrical connection for control unit, 1.2kW to 1.7kW per panel