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Encyclopedia > Major appliance

A major appliance is a large machine which accomplishes some routine housekeeping task, which includes purposes such as cooking, food preservation, or cleaning, whether in a household, institutional, commercial or industrial setting. An appliance is differentiated from a plumbing fixture because it uses an energy input for its operation other than water (generally, electricity). Wind turbines A machine is any mechanical or organic device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of tasks. ... Cooking is the act of preparing food for consumption. ... Various preserved foods Food preservation is the process of treating and handling food in such a way as to stop or greatly slow down spoilage to prevent foodborne illness while maintaining nutritional value, texture and flavor. ... Cleanliness is the absence of dirt, including dust, stains and a bad smell. ... The word appliance has several different areas of meaning, all usually referring to a device with a narrow function: One class of objects includes items that are custom-fitted to an individual for the purpose of correction of a physical problem, such as prosthetic and orthotic appliances. ... A plumbing fixture is a device which is part of a system to deliver and drain away water, but which is also configured to enable a particular use. ... Water (from the Old English word wæter; c. ... Electricity is a property of matter that results from the presence or movement of electric charge. ...


Major appliances are differentiated from small appliances because they are large, difficult to move, and generally fixed in place to some extent. They may be roughly divided into refrigeration equipment, stoves, washing equipment, and miscellaneous. Blender Small appliance refers to a class of home appliances that are semi-portable or which are used on tabletops, countertops, or other platforms. ... Refrigeration (from the Latin frigus, frost) is generally the cooling of a body by the transfer of a portion of its heat away from it. ... A stove is a heat-producing device. ... Washing is one way of cleaning, namely with water and often some kind of soap or detergent. ...


Types of appliances

Appliances are divided into white goods and brown goods.

Brown goods were traditionally finished with wood, or looked like wood, or bakelite; at least televisions and music systems were. This is now rather rare, but the name has stuck, even for goods that are unlikely ever to have been provided in a wooden case (e.g. camcorders). White goods were typically painted or enamelled white, and many of them still are. The addition of new items to these categories shows that the categories still serve a purpose in marketing (consumers rarely use the terms), perhaps because they divide into traditional gender roles in the house suggesting "gadget/novelty/power" marketing for brown goods and "practicality/reliability" marketing for white goods. A compact disc player or CD player is an electronic device to play audio from compact discs. ... This page relates to a hardware device used to play DVDs. ... Before the camcorder. ... High Fidelity is also the title of a book by Nick Hornby and a film directed by Stephen Frears, based upon Hornbys book. ... Home cinema, also called Home theater, seeks to reproduce cinema quality video and audio in the home. ... Note: in the broadest sense, air conditioning can refer to any form of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning. ... Breadmaker A breadmaker is a home appliance for baking bread, it handles the process from ingredients to a finished loaf automatically. ... A dishwasher The term dishwasher can represent either a person who washes (cleans) dishes (a term commonly used in the food service industry) or a machine that performs a similar function. ... A dryer or drier most commonly means: a clothes dryer / tumble-dryer a hair dryer There are also various industrial dryers for everything from wet paper to candy. ... A freezer is a home appliance, usually found above the refrigerator that keeps foods frozen. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into refrigeration. ... A furnace is a device for heating air or any other fluid. ... A stove is a heat-producing device. ... Canister vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner is a device that uses an air pump to create a partial vacuum to suck up dust and dirt, usually from carpeted floors. ... A trio of propane hot water heaters. ... Front-loading washing machine. ... Bakelite distributor rotor Bakelite is a brand named material based on the thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride, developed in 1907-1909 by Dr. Leo Baekeland. ... It has been suggested that Product marketing be merged into this article or section. ... A bagpiper in military uniform. ...


This division is also noticeable in the service area of this kind of products. Brown goods usually require high technical knowledge and skills (which get more complex with time, such as going from a soldering iron to a hot-air soldering station), while white goods need more practical skills and "brute force" to manipulate the devices and heavy tools required to repair them.


Brown goods are almost always serviceable down to "component-level" (integrated circuits, transistors, etc), whereas in white goods, usually whole modules (motor, thermostat, controller board) are changed and not repaired. There is usually a problem with microwave ovens, which are considered white goods, because these sell alongside refrigerators and dishwashers, but microwave ovens contain complex electronic boards (the clock and controller) which white-good servicemen refuse to repair (as they don't have the training or tools required to do so). Some brands consider microwave ovens white goods, and send whole boards for replacement, and some consider microwaves to be like brown goods, and have them repaired by such technicians. Personal care products (electric shavers and depilators), are considered a separate line, and usually are not serviced, but completely exchanged.


See also

Domestic technology is the incorporation of applied science into the home. ... Domotics is the application of computer and robot technologies to domestic appliances. ... Abandoned monitor Electronic waste or e-waste is any broken or unwanted electrical or electronic appliance. ... A household chore is a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee, related to or used in the running of a household. ...

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