Another product on the Walmart site that spiked in price was a left-handed fishing reel. It rose from $57.37 to $83.26 from April to May, a jump of 45 percent, with a post on Reddit showing the two price stickers. Aisle Gopher’s price history says that the price of the reel was $51.12 on March 14.
Another Reddit post showed an increase in the price of cocoa powder from $3.44 in May 2024 to $6.18 in April 2025.
I just bought a whole suite of new appliances over here. I didnt realise I ws doing so well. Most wasshers and dryers here are front load, thats standard. Something else that came up on my travels is that you guys dont often have fans in your ovens, which would be very standard here.
The ones with fans would be “convection” ovens, which cost more this side of the pond
The oven fan drives me nuts. It allows them to sell stupid shit like air fryers. Put convection in my fucking oven and stop charging up to $1000 extra for the option.
Also the combo washer dryer. I stayed with friends in Belgium for a month over 25 years ago. They had a front load washer/dryer. One appliance. We are now finally seeing these in North America but they suck balls and are really expensive.
Oh I hate them combos, great in theory often poor in practice. They are usually in rental properties here, cheap and cheerful resolution.
The ovens are crazy, no wonder the US have all these appliances. My oven steams and a dude on here would not believe me saying its not practical to have an industrial oven in my house.
To be fair though we have a higher voltage residential supply too so you guys might not be able to as effectively use this shit.
It’s corporations. My stove runs on 220V as does my dryer. Aside from gas all of them do. It does exist but it is priced out of a normal person’s budget. These ovens exist only in homes where everyone eats out as generally those are the homes that can afford the extra expense. Or as that person told you previously, unless you purchase a commercial oven. Yay capitalism!
Due ye have dual supply or step up?
To be fair I got what I paid for, I paid shy of two grand for two full size ovens that include a steam and microwave function. We use them all the time. Do you guys have down draft hobs? Best thing I ever bought for the kitchen.
I’m not a typical North American. I have a full kitchen outside my house in an outbuilding that is fully set up as a commercial kitchen on three phase power. Inside my house I have typical shitty North American appliances. The “outdoor” kitchen is all second hand bought at auction commercial restaurant appliances. Gas stove tops. Commercial electric ovens. Vent hoods. The whole thing. It’s taken years and years to build up.
We grow, forage and raise a lot of our own food and have a small galley style kitchen in our little house that just isn’t practical for large batch stuff like butchering and canning.
You’re who I think I will be everytime I try fermenting and planting food.