I’m dreaming of an LG Studio Kitchen at Best Buy, come see why

The reviewer has been compensated in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card and/or received the product/service at a reduced price or for free. It’s probably a coincidence, but we’re new kitchen shopping. Our house was built in the mid 80’s and the appliances were new to it in the mid 90’s. If I touch our dishwasher for long enough I can channel Faith by George Michael. Then I start wondering about Andrew Ridgeley, I’ll text my wife about the funny scene from Music and Lyrics (the whole movie basically) and bam, dinner is over cooked and the dishwasher needs to be cycled. It’s a scene from the island of lost kitchens, which is right next to the island of lost toys, and is quite relevant this time of year. We got to experience a new LG kitchen from Best Buy and I think our current kitchen was trying to tell me something because my dishwasher just told me that WHAM! broke up.

Let’s start with the refrigerator. The LG Door-in-Door is stainless steel and massive. In a parallel world it’s the porthole to a hyperloop that will take me to the land where I can have separate areas at different temperatures, tall water dispensers for pitchers, two crispers for the veggies and more. That world is now. I loved that you can open up the front door, get a drink, see inside the refrigerator and then close the outside door. What kind of witchcraft is this? I also learned that a refrigerator can lose 60% of its cooling ability if the door is open for: 10. That is why my drinks are never as cold as I would like.

The LG 30” Self-Cleaning Freestanding Double Oven does have one thing in common with our oven-they’re both a double oven. But the similarities end there. This new one from LG has a 12 hour automatic shut-off, delay-bake feature, convection bake and roast oven, griddle for flat cooking (heloooo bacon) and five cook top burners. Plus the buttons are big, fun to turn and don’t pull off like the ones on our current oven.

A dish washer is functional and can’t really be added to, right? The LG 24” Tall Tub Built-In Dishwasher takes the things parents never knew they needed in a dishwasher and added them. A third drawer that is just inches away from the top of the machine’s inside? Check. This is perfect for those sippy cup tops, covers for plastic ware, pacifiers and other small things that get tossed around your current machine, ending up in the middle where the stale, stinky water remains. It also has a child lock, up to a 19 hour delayed start, multiple cutlery baskets, racks that fold up as easy as an iron maiden or Catherine wheel and it does it all dancing quietly to 44dB.

The other machine that washes or dries something has a trick up its sleeve too. In this case the LG EasyLoad 7.3 is an electric dryer that does so with a steam option, but its most clever element is its opening. The door. It’s a simple, non-thought thing that the fact that this door opens down, as well as out, might escape some folks. Again, you can pull the door towards you OR pull a different button and the door will pull down. This is key because when you pull the door down it’s much simpler to put the clothes into the dryer.

If you have to swing the door open then rogue socks will escape, things fall to the floor, grab onto some dog dander and our dishwasher will start channeling Dead or Alive. That happens then Boy George gets all jealous and it’s a mid 80’s music battle for which band’s music has aged the worst.

We’ll stop this now and declare that this is cooked; decades belongs to music genres on streaming radio, not as an adjective for our kitchen. The future is now. Best Buy has the entire LG lineup to get your most popular room from old and busted to new hotness. File ours under old and busted, my wife and I are talking about it now. Bonus point go to Best Buy for offering 18 month free financing on purchases $599 and up, plus free delivery, haul-away and recycling on major appliances $399 and up.