The £250,000 (US$ 400,000) Kitchen

[liuzhou]

"Electrolux has launched what must be the world's most expensive domestic kitchen and there's not a toaster or microwave in sight."

Placed your order yet?

I think my kitchen cost more like £250.

[nickrey]

So you can get 1000 of them.

Love the line "if you own this [and a dish doesn't work], you'd never be able to blame your equipment..."

[Mjx]

No microwave? Clearly, the Electrolux R&D kiddies didn't read Modernist Cuisine.

[liuzhou]

So you can get 1000 of them.

Nope. I can get 1/1000th of one.

[lesliec]

This is like car companies throwing their new technologies into exotic race cars - the theory is some of it (ABS, traction control, heads-up displays ...) will eventually trickle down to us mortals.

I'm interested in the implication that a company like Electrolux is making its own vacuum sealer (surely a chamber - they wouldn't do a kitchen like this with a FoodSaver, would they?). That's good news, in a couple of years, for those of us who want to be able to get one from a normal appliance store.