Kitchen Appliances
This large appliance keeps your milk cold and stops your meat from spoiling.
What is a refrigerator (or fridge)?
This machine uses water and detergent to clean your dirty clothes.
What is a measuring tape?
This is a special paper or digital ticket from a store that gives you a lower price or a discount on an appliance.
This is the service where a truck brings the heavy appliance directly to your house or apartment.
What is delivery?
Your use this appliance to wash your dirty plates, cups, and forks after dinner.
What is a dishwasher?
This machine uses hot air to remove water from your wet clothes so you can wear them.
This measurement tells you how tall an appliance is from the floor to the top.
This is the extra money you must pay the government when you buy a product. In Ontario it is 13%.
What is the sales tax (or HST)?
This verb means to connect the new appliance to the water , gas, or electricity so that it works.
What is install (or hook up)?
This small appliance sits on the counter or above the stove and cooks or heats up food very fast.
This style of washing machine opens from the top, so you lift a lid to put your clothes inside.
What is a top-load washer?
This measurement tells you how wide a machine is from the left side to the right side.
What is the width?
This is a paper promise from the company that says they will fix the machine for free if it breaks during the first year.
What is a warranty?
Many stores charge a small fee for this service, where they take your old, broken fridge away when they bring a new one.
What is haul-away (or disposal)?
This is the top part of the stove where you put your frying pans to cook food.
What is a cooktop?
If you have a small space, you can buy a special kit to put your dryer directly on top of your machine. This is called a ________ pair.
What is stackable?
This measurement tells you how far a machine goes back from the front to the wall.
What is the depth?
These 3 words means the appliance is not in the store right now, and you have to wait for the company to get more.
What is "out of stock"?
The word to describe how to take care of your appliance.
What is maintenance?
This large appliance has a fan on top to pull smoke and smells out of the kitchen when you fry food.
This is the name of the wire box or plastic bucket inside the dryer that collects the fuzzy dust from your clothes. You must clean it after every load.
What is the lint trap (or lint filter)?
In Canada, the inside size of a refrigerator or washing machine is measured in these units, shortened to "cu.ft".
This is a price agreement where a store promises to match a lower price if you find the exact same appliance cheaper at a different store.
This is the name of the booklet that comes in the box. It gives you instructions on how to use and take care of your machine.
What is the user manual (or owner's manual)?