Real-life inspiration

There is nothing like a working example to help you understand a product particularly when it offers a number of labor-saving advantages. A visit to an upscale showroom where chefs put the latest and best through their paces is worth more than a thousand brochures or web pages. Your visit is all the more rewarding when experienced staff add their industry insights to your understanding.

Standards of Excellence Appliances and Decorative Plumbing offers well thought-out showrooms featuring an array of kitchen appliances. Designed to inspire industry professionals as well as homeowners, the 8000sq ft showrooms feature demonstration kitchens and products from more than 50 domestic and foreign manufacturers.

All Standards of Excellence showrooms focus on the latest culinary trends, and this includes the drive towards healthier cooking options. As a result, the latest German Miele precision appliances are currently featured. Among a multitude of high-tech options, Miele's steam oven is a leading example of functionality and healthy cooking.

Miele steam ovens can be accommodated in any kitchen and are exceptionally easy to operate. With Miele's Navitronic¢ controls, you get a wide range of automatic programs all you do is choose the food type, and the oven does the rest. You can even select how well done you like your vegetables or pasta and then save the setting in the user profiles.

In addition, steam is injected into Miele steam ovens at the optimum temperature to ensure cooking times are kept short and food is instantly sealed, locking in color, flavors, vitamins and textures.

Each Standards of Excellence showroom offers detailed vignettes that make it easy to visualize appliances in your own home. Once a month, the showrooms host a free Food for Thought taste evening, where professional chefs put the latest appliances through their paces.

For more details, phone toll free (800) 817 9115 or contact a Standards of Excellence showroom. Bay Area: 1720 Ringwood Ave, San Jose, CA 95131, phone (408) 907 3800; 2260 Commerce Avenue, Suite B, Concord, CA 94520, phone (925) 459 5300; 530 Francisco Boulevard West, San Rafael, CA 94901, phone (415) 453 6070; 476 Rohnert Park Expressway, Rohnert Park, CA 94928, phone (707) 588 3200. Reno/Tahoe Area: 7525 Colbert Lane, Suite 108 Reno, NV 89511, phone (775) 852 5600. Sacramento Area: 1200 Del Paso Road, South Sacramento, CA 95834, phone (916) 515 0525. Website: www.standardsofexcellence.com.

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