Chef Report

At the annual Kitchen and Bath Industry Show in Chicago, manufacturers displayed a variety of new appliances that make traditional products look Lilliputian. Viking Range Corp.’s biggest oven now has 4.1 cubic feet of capacity, big enough to evenly cook 144 cookies at one time, the company says. Capital Cooking Equipment Inc. is selling a new 60-inch-wide range — compared with a previous model of 48 inches — that includes a rotisserie oven underneath and a 30,000 British Thermal Unit “power-flo” burner for big pots and woks. Sub-Zero Freezer Co. is offering its most spacious all-refrigerator unit, with 21 cubic feet of storage space, up from 15.3 cubic feet. Northland, a subsidiary of the United Kingdom-based Aga Foodservice Group, just unveiled a 60-inch, 40-cubic-foot refrigerator/freezer that can fit 24 soda cans lined side by side. General Electric Co. rolled out a 6-foot-wide, 41-cubic-foot, double-door refrigerator/freezer that starts at $13,999.