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FCI
(aka Fulgor Cooking Industries)
800-926-2032
Italian OEM Maker of Ovens
2006 Kitchen & Bath Show Introductions
Since we can't yet tell if FCI really plans on becoming more than an OEM brand,
we'll dance lightly through these models.
New 36" Gas Cooktop
Features 5 sealed burners: 18K (500 simmer), 15K, 9K, 9K, 4K BTU.
Re-ignition, Continuous cast iron aesthetically displeasing
grates.
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New 36" Radiant Cooktop
Same layout as the gas cooktop, but in radiant, models ECCB and TCCB would
easily be the best looking
radiant cooktop on the market. The 36" features 5 fast reacting
heating elements: (2) 6” - 1200W, (1) 7” - 1800W, a dual zone 6”/ 9” -
2500W and a dual zone 8”/ 11” - 2700W with electromechanical controls.
Perhaps we are terribly old fashioned, but we just hate touch controls.
Touch controls lack a feeling of accomplishment, lacks tactile feedback with of
buttons or knobs, and of course make the cooktop a bloody fingerprint covered
mess. Why do consumers go for touch controls? Consumers are idiots,
or at least irrational, making buying decisions based on what they think others
will think of them, and less on a critical reflection of one's own needs and
wants.
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The Ovens on Which FCI Exists
Electronic controls, self clean, convection, 6 cooking modes, fast pre-heat, 10
pass broiler with 5 power levels, and designed for 27" and 30" spaces.
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2005 Kitchen & Bath Show Introductions
ApplianceAdvisor.com welcomes Fulgor to KBIS. Fulgor is famed for being
the OEM supplier of the GE Monogram and the Bosch built-in ovens. Ovens
that were designed for Americans with our stupendous Thanksgiving turkeys and not
Europeans who bake one or two rabbit legs a year. Fulgor is launching under the FCI brand but hell if we know
why.
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