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General Miele Information
Miele is a real rarity today, a major appliance company (and one with an excellent reputation) that is not (so far!) a part of some chain of conglomerates. Indeed, they are often described as perhaps the most "vertically integrated" business in the world (that means they own and operate every link of the chain, from factory to warehouse). Even within the trade, their reputation is for relentlessly high quality (though typically with a corresponding price tag). Service, however, seems to be a price issue, in that Miele closely guards its information and only authorized Miele agents can do repairs. That's not too serious, though, in that even their appliances of the sort more liable to problems—dishwahers, for example, with numerous moving parts—last a lot longer than most, and one would expect something as passive as an all-electronic hob to last a very long time even from an average maker.
Miele has a line of induction units, the KM5700 line, with a dozen units worlwide; in the U.S., there are just two, the usual 30-inch and 36-inch pair.
(Note carefully that in various nations Miele is offering different units under the same model numbers—that is, the U.S. version of, say, the KM 5773 is not identical to, say, the Australian
version of the exact same model number; it is crucial to be sure you are looking at model specifications specific to the U.S. Why Miele is doing such an insane thing is between them and their God.)
Miele also has a line of various build-in modular domino units, the "Combi" units, several members of which are induction units, including a wok. Most of these are designated "CS" something-or-other; there is (in he U.S.) a single induction Combi unit.
Miele Induction-Unit Data
We found 3 Miele induction models:
As always in these listings, we give these standard general—
Important notes on these data:
We have spent a lot of time hunting these data--often in several places for each individual unit--but we cannot and do not guarantee any datum to be correct (indeed, we often found conflicting data at
different sources). Caveat emptor!
For those units we offer for sale, the prices shown are never over a day old. For other items, the prices shown are the lowest we found with moderate but not fanatic searching; moreover, they are not updated very often
and are only intended as a rough guide to comparative unit values in cost/power terms.
Most "Features" are not terribly important, and are nearly standard among roughly similar units, regardless of brand name. If some "feature"--shown or omitted--is especially important to you, check on it, because we
did not take great pains over the "Features" data.
Dimensions given here are, as the makers themselves warn, only to be used as guidelines in planning--never do anything (such as cutting a countertop) till you have your actual unit to hand.
A very important unit datum is the "MaxPower" value. Many units show individual-element powers that add up to impressive totals that the unit cannot really supply. That is not a defect or some form
of cheating: it is "power sharing", a clever and useful feature; but, unless the maker is unusually open about data, one can
easily be misled into believeing that the unit as a whole is more powerful than it is. Your dollars are buying cooking power, and you need to be well aware of just what you are paying for in actual cost/power terms for
the unit as a whole.
Similar to power sharing (though less flexible) is the "power boost" feature many units have on some or all of their
elements. (That feature allows a "boosted" element to temporarily, for some short period--rarely specified, but typically 10 minutes or so--run at some set level well over its nominal power, to help with tasks like getting
large pots of water to boiling.) As with true power sharing, if one is not careful, one can get an incorrect impression of the true total power capability of the unit as a whole, which, as we just said, is basically what your
dollars are buying.
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