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Spring is here and along with longer and lighter days, it brings with it a slew of glorious bank holidays ripe for celebrating with friends and family.
For keen cooks, a long weekend isn’t just another day off work, it’s a chance to really show off your hosting skills, and it couldn’t be easier with these clever appliances from NEFF. Without further ado, here are six ways NEFF appliances can help you host feasts at home.
1. Appliances that deliver the best results every time
Choosing a NEFF kitchen is like having your very own sous chef, helping you to master every cook. The groundbreaking tech incorporated in the NEFF Flex Induction Hob, for instance, helps you achieve incredible results time and time again, with its Intuitive Flex Zones that automatically recognise the size, shape and position of any cooking pot or pan.
This innovative tech gives you total flexibility when you are hosting an event at home, allowing you to use lots of saucepans; the flex zone recognises all shapes and sizes and can follow multiple pans around the hob with your desired heat level.
There’s no waiting around for things to heat up with NEFF either; the Flex Induction Hob heats instantly, with 17 power levels to choose from and the option to use Power Burst for a serious surge of heat, making quick work of boiling pasta water, or searing a juicy steak, for example.
Juggling oven shelves and heavy trays of food to get the best cooking results will become a thing of the past with the NEFF N70 Slide and Hide ® Oven. Its Circotherm oven technology means it can handle multi dish cooking on different levels that need cooking at the same temperature, so your roast chicken and veg can cook while your crumble happily bakes away.
2. Clever space-saving designs
If you have limited space in your kitchen, NEFF’s appliances are well worth considering. For instance, the aforementioned NEFF N70 Slide and Hide ® Oven has a door that slides away into a hidden recess, giving you easy access to your cooking with no awkward angles or risk of accidents from colliding with the oven door.
For more bijou spaces, the NEFF N70 Compact Oven is a boon. This do-it-all integrated oven with a microwave gives you flexibility and a brilliant solution in the kitchen as it will do both jobs. It suits small households or works perfectly as an add-on to the Slide and Hide®, allowing you to bake, roast, defrost and microwave within one appliance, leaving more countertop space at which to perch with a glass of something chilled.
Plus, we love the nifty Hot Air programme which heats up quickly and evenly for better baking; try it alongside your usual Victoria sponge recipe for a W.I.-worthy bake, or wow guests with unparalleled fluffy souffles if you’re planning to go all-out this spring.
3. Hi-tech features that help you get more from your ingredients
Whether you’re testing new culinary ideas or perfecting your signature dish, NEFF makes it easy to get those creative juices flowing on a lazy Sunday. A quick peek into the capacious NEFF N30 Integrated 50/50 Fridge Freezer allows you to view all your carefully sourced fresh and frozen produce thanks to its frost-free clear drawers and generous 150l fridge and 99l freezer capacity. As such, there’s no more rooting around for that elusive ingredient.
Plus, chilled food now stays fresher for even longer because of NEFF’s Fresh Safe system. This smart food preservation system ensures produce stays at its best thanks to different humidity zones, locking in vitamins and keeping chilled items fresh and crisp. In the freezer, the handy Fast Freeze function rapidly cools new additions to the freezer without spoiling your homemade ice-cream – so your shopping reaches sub-zero temperatures fast without affecting your existing food.
4. Performance tools for more comfortable cooking
When you’ve put effort into menu planning, sourcing ingredients and creating the perfect bank holiday atmosphere, the last thing you want is for frying smells and to interfere with the party vibe. Luckily the NEFF Angled Chimney Cooker Hood uses a three-speed Efficient Drive motor to powerfully extract fumes while staying whisper-quiet.
Elsewhere, it also boasts dimmable hood lights. A single swipe of your finger means you can customise the hood’s warmth and brightness to match your kitchen’s ambience; no harsh blue light spoiling our aesthetic here, thank you.
If you’re in the midst of designing your kitchen, we would suggest adding in a warming drawer to your plans for hands-off luxury you didn’t know you needed. The NEFF Built-In Warming Drawer is all understated elegance and high performance functionality in one small, sleek pull-out drawer: warm plates or keep food at the right temperature to serve, melt chocolate or butter for sauces and baking, slow cook and confit meat, fish and veg, rest large joints and poultry, or prove dough for bread, pizza or your signature hot cross buns.
5. More time hosting, less time cooking
When the bank holiday weather gods smile upon us, it’s a rare chance to get out in the garden with your guests. And with the NEFF Home Connect app you can soak up the springtime sun without having to dash indoors every five minutes; each NEFF appliance can be a seamless part of your smart home. Via Alexa or Google Assistant, you can use voice controls to adjust times and temperatures, check on your cook duration or turn off an appliance remotely – all while spending time with your loved ones.
Even better, the NEFF Home Connect app will remember the settings of all of your favourite culinary successes so you can replicate them time and again without lifting a finger post-prep. Did you in-laws rave about last year’s roast lamb? It’s easy to knock their socks off again by saving your cooking method, temperature and timing; ask your smart speaker for any saved favourite dish and the NEFF Slide and Hide ® and the Flex Hob will use the same skills again this year for a flawless Easter lunch.
It’s easy to get distracted when you’re serving drinks and catching up with guests. The inbuilt Neff Extended Frying Sensor has the ability to monitor anything you are frying, sautéing or searing, setting a constant temperature and time that means you need never burn anything again – giving you peace of mind.
6. A kitchen that takes care of the clean up
The downside of a wonderful long weekend eating and drinking is that someone has to do the dishes. Enter the NEFF N70 Fully Integrated Dishwasher with Zeolith Drying; forget having to wash up oven dishes or fine china as this super spacious easy-load dishwasher does it all with a wide variety of cycles to suit its load. We liked NEFF’s Zeolith Drying aspect, which uses natural minerals and Heat Exchange to ensure even glasses come out cupboard-ready, perfectly dry and smear free.
Undoubtedly the worst kitchen job of all is cleaning the oven, especially after cooking a big roast, but here’s where the Slide and Hide ® really pays for itself. Easyclean settings mean that maintaining a hygienic and clean oven is painless; the oven uses its own steam vapour to break down dirt and grease left from roasting meat, oil splatters and overflowing dishes so all you have to do is gently wipe away. For tougher, burnt-on grease and grime, the revolutionary Pyrolytic Self Clean programme disintegrates hard-to-tackle dirt into a wipe-clean pile of ash.
Visit John Lewis now to build your dream NEFF kitchen and right now if you buy any NEFF oven with a Free Recycling stamp your old oven will be taken away and recycled.
