Sexy Lifts and Enfinigy
Andrew Bluett-Duncan
Director
I wonder how much my open rate has gone up this week by using sex to sell my wares? Be interesting to know, wouldn't it? And I bet that there are probably some interesting stats on this, if only I knew where to look.
Sometime last year, at a trade show, we spotted a new, small range of electrical appliances, made by my chums at Zwilling. My immediate reaction was "ooh, these look really rather classy", with lovely clean lines and no frills. The range in question is called Enfinigy, which, I find an immediately forgettable name (presumably dreamt up by a junior in their marketing department who had nothing better to do) but there my criticism ends, because the two products from the range that we have tried out, the kettles and the toasters both look very good and work very well. Let me go into a little more detail.
Enfinigy Kettles, £89 to £129
The kettle comes in two forms, Enfinigy Kettle and Enfinigy Kettle Pro. The first is just a basic kettle. Switch it on and it boils water to 100°C. Simple, no nonsense, smart looking product on the now usual 360° base.
And retails for £89.00, which whilst not cheap, is quite reasonable money for a kettle of this quality and length of guarantee.
The Enfinigy Pro, on the other hand, has a number of benefits that really rather set it apart from the crowd. Both kettles are, in fact, insulated so remain cool to the touch and, therefore, stay warm longer after boiling. Both kettles have 5-year guarantees, which is 5 times longer than most! Both kettles employ an 1850w element which is hidden, of course, and both are stainless steel lined with large diameter lids that make access for cleaning relatively easy.
Where the Pro model differs is in the varying temperatures, of which it can offer six:
- 40°CHeating Baby Milk and Food…so yes you put the filled baby bottle into the kettle!
- 60°C Teas such as Green Tea
- 70°C Teas such as Oolong (never heard of that!)
- 80°C Instant Coffee
- 93°C Brewing Coffee (Cafetieres and pour over filter types)
- 100°C Anything that needs boiling water
- Then there’s a Stay Warm feature that maintains any of these temperatures for 30 minutes after the initial boil.
- Another feature, which is claimed as a safety one, is the lid only opening to 70°. (Jury’s out on that one, I found it mildly irritating)
- The cable store underneath the base, whilst not unique, is very easy to adjust from very short, up to its full 70cm length.
- The spout, in common with a lot of kettles these days, has a limescale filter, which is effective in keeping limescale out of your tea or coffee, but the Enfinigy design means it’s particularly easy to clean.
- Double Walled Insulation makes for a safe, cool exterior and I suppose greater retention of heat, which, in the normal run of things, frankly wouldn’t matter very much. However, whilst power is at its current pricing, perhaps it does!
- 5 Year Guarantee. Very unusual and typical Zwilling, if you’re going to do something, do it really well.
Zwilling Enfinigy 2 Slot Toaster, From £89.00
The other product we tested out was the sample Toaster that Paul, our account manager kindly sent us.
There’s not much that you can usually say about a toaster, but Zwilling have managed one or two unique and / or interesting features, which you may find a benefit.
The first, and most obvious one, is that toast was very evenly done all over, even more so than my favourite Dualit, that we’ve had at home for the last 22 years. Quite impressive!
The second is that it has a useful thaw function and re warming function. Nice! If, on the other hand, you are one of those people who likes things called “Bagels”(and I’d question why you would like such a thing; like Mother’s Pride, they look and taste like cardboard and presumably have as much goodness in them, not to mention probably a raft of additives that are doing you no good at all) so, if you are one of these misguided souls, then it will also do them as well. These features are not unique but are really useful.
Thirdly, YOU CAN’T BURN YOUR TOAST! It won’t allow this and switches itself off before burning takes place. My father made a habit, even a virtue, out of burning our toast with some regularity at weekends, which he did under the grill (no toasters in those days), and every time I do the same in our Dualit, the smell, which over the years I’ve come to love, reminds me so much of him. So, I won’t be replacing my Dualit with one of these, but that needn’t stop you from benefitting from it.
Penultimately, it has “quite a nice” soft lift feature. Why only quite nice? Well, if you’ve ever used a KitchenAid Toaster, then you’d be in for a bit of a disappointment with the Enfinigy because the Kitchenaid has a really sexy, SLOW, soft lift to it. And when I say sexy, it really is quite mesmerising! If you find your mind wandering (or wondering) at this description, then don’t. I mean it as a compliment to the KitchenAid, no inuendo intended. This is a clean publication.
Lastly, it, like the kettles, has a cord store so that you can use as much or as little of the 1 metre cable as you need.
I now feel like a bit of a twit, as having written all this I have discovered that our stocks are very low. However, we do have them on order with Zwilling and expect the majority of them next week. If you add one to your basket on the website, the button will say “Pre-Order Now” if it’s one of the ones we are waiting for. Rest assured we will dispatch to you, as soon as they arrive with us.
So, if you’re tempted by my sales spiel into spending your cash with us, then allow me to offer you 20% off one or either of these products.
As usual let us know who you are if coming into Reigate or Cobham, and use code FORGETTABLE20, if shopping online.
Well, that’s it for this week.
I have had one further thought. If you didn’t get this week’s email, then it maybe the use of the word sex in the subject line that induced your firewall to block it …. So I’m sorry if that happened, but you can always see it on the website instead! Of course you won’t see this if that did happen…
I came across this quote of Henry Ford earlier and rather liked it.
"Profits made out of the distress of the people are always much smaller than profits made out of the most lavish service of the people, at the lowest prices that competent management can make possible"
Kind regards
Andrew
Andrew Bluett-Duncan
Director
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