January 2nd, 2013 by Mark Bristow

Happy (slightly belated) New Year, appliance fans! We hope that your New Year's Eve parties were fun, that you've managed to successfully detox following New Year's Day, and that your actions over the holiday will bring you lots of good luck for the rest of 2013. Don't know what we mean by that last part?  Well, there's a whole host of old-timey superstitions and the like associated New ... Read more

December 18th, 2012 by Louise Carter

In case the barrage of Christmas carols, decorations, Santas and insane gift-buying-people people desperately wandering the streets with their teeth bared and the whites of their eyes showing has not tipped you off to the fact it's Christmas, we have news for you: it's Christmas. Joy to the world. By now, you've probably got most of your Christmas shopping out of the way, but there's always that ... Read more

December 11th, 2012 by Richie Black

Appliances Online recently underwent a journey to the wilds of Tasmania to sample the delights of the renowned Agrarian Kitchen ... ... and the culinary expertise of masterchef (and Best Home Chef mentor) Mark Best. The trip necessarily involved experiencing the best of organically grown produce, choice cuts of meats from sourced from hand-reared animals, and some remarkable wines. Hopes were high as I set off on the ... Read more

November 28th, 2012 by Richie Black

What is it about the word "sale" that brings out the most violent urges in people? We ponder this with reports from America that things got messy at this year's Black Friday Sale ... ... by no means the first time this annual retail orgasm has tapped into the kind of hysteria normally associated with doomsday sci-fi movies or, uh, last drinks at the Cricketers Arms. It’s a ... Read more

November 15th, 2012 by Louise Carter

One of the complaints frequently thrown at celebrity chefs is that the ingredients they use are often prohibitively expensive (activated almonds, anyone?). The same goes for the fancy appliances they just happen to have installed in their kitchen (not to mention an entourage of assistants paid to clean up after they've finished using them) that are perfectly affordable for anyone with their own television show, but ... Read more

November 13th, 2012 by Krissy Davis

With seven days of our seventh birthday sale left, it seems only fitting that we take a look at the appliances best suited to the seven deadly sins. While some may argue that the sins may not all be that bad - and perhaps lost their meaning a little, considering that they provided the inspiration for each of the main characters in Spongebob Squarepants - there is ... Read more

November 9th, 2012 by Richie Black

Blogging for Appliances Online, you’ll inevitably find yourself having to trace the odd stock photo. Some, you know, generic image when you haven’t personally had the time to take a picture of a pregnant woman drinking scotch while she loads a dishwasher (for that article about some safety feature or other). We’re amazed - read delighted - at the amount of ridiculous awful or just plain weird ... Read more