Blum kitchen inspirations

3 4 65 All in all, kitchen drawers, pull- outs, doors and wall cabinets are opened and closed more than 80 times a day. The fridge alone is opened and closed 30 times. On average, up to 2.1 cubic metres of items are kept in the kitchen. That's about 14 full shopping trolleys. Every kitchen user covers more than 1,500 km in 20 years. It could be double if your kitchen is not practical. TURNING BRIGHT IDEAS INTO PRODUCTS - THE "IDEANET" PLATFORM Our employees can come up with brilliant ideas of their own. They might be inspired by their own kitchen experiences, customer feedback or insights from the manufacturing field. Every idea can be posted on "IdeaNet", an in-house, digital platform. This input often results in new solutions or optimisations. One example in this context is the AM- BIA-LINE application for bottles. In Australia, many households have a second outdoor kitchen with a barbecue. If you run out of gas for your cooker in Vietnam, you simply order a new bottle. It's delivered by moped within minutes. In South Korea, there are two fridges in every kitchen. One is a standard fridge with freezer compartment and the other a kimchi fridge (for specially prepared vegetables). LONG-TERM TESTING - PRODUCT SURVEILLANCE This research method entails installing technologically mature new products into different types of private kitchens where they are tested for the long term. Counters are installed and quality controls carried out after three years. We have 160 such kitchens in Austria and a further 26 in England. The tests are carried out for ten years in order to guarantee the top quality of our products. Users spend two hours on average in their kitchen every day as opposed to only half an hour in their bathroom.