Steaming Ahead!

Paul and I drove up to Newport Pagnell between Christmas and New Year and met up with Tim Hutchinson, who runs the UK division of V-Zug, a Swiss company that manufactures high quality kitchen appliances.  We met Tim last May at the Grand Designs show in London and were very impressed.  The company has only recently come over to the UK, but I think it's going to be very successful, if the quality of the products is anything to go by.  We wanted to look at their steam ovens and coffee makers.  The ovens range from simple steam to combination and the company's Combi-Steam XSL has a massive 51 litre cooking volume, much larger than the Miele.


I'm waiting for Tim to get back to me with prices, but my only worry is that it may be too deep to fit into the space Jamie's earmarked for the steam oven (it needs a depth of 550mm, whilst the Miele sits in a 350mm niche).  I'm trying to think of alternative locations, without compromising the symmetry and design of the kitchen.