Every know and then something comes along that makes you stop in your tracks and makes you wonder how you lived so long with out this lovely thing. A hot design trend in Europe for the past several years, inline cooking has finally arrived in the USA and those innovative folks at Kuppersbusch, the 135 year old German appliance company, the people who brought us the induction wok, catalytic convection ovens and the iconic honey-comb cook top, has now launched the first 42” inline cook top for residential use.
As one of the worlds largest manufacturer of restaurant cooking equipment, Küppersbusch often takes ideas and concepts developed in the commercial kitchen and incorporates them into the home. The inline cook top is one such concept.
In the chaotic atmosphere of a resturant kitchen, where a intricate ballet of boiling water, open flames, sharp pointy things and a cast of many, all moving about to create a meal, we find that safety and efficiency are still at the heart of this primal kitchen.
To avoid burning or scalding oneself and to keep from reaching over a pan to stir another, we find the burners of the inline cook top are aligned in a single horizontal row, all in easy reach and control of the chef. Now we find this simple, but brilliant idea, available for the American home.
The sexy black glass, 42”, inline cook top with black iron grates brings on a whole new meaning to having a “haute kitchen”.





