Tracing the history of refrigerators, as early as 1933, Bosch introduced the world's first refrigerator with a compressor. Both Siemens and Bosch refrigerators on the market are made from BSH appliances. If you choose the most familiar foreign home appliances in China, the answer must be BSH. While other brands have inevitably entered China, BSH has been present in China since 1994, witnessing the most representative decades of changes in the Chinese market. BSH understands the needs of the Chinese market very well and is functionally designed to be closer to Chinese life than other foreign brands. Refrigerators were one of the first operations of BSH in China, and the latest technology applications are now in sync with those in Europe. Bosch and Siemens are almost identical in terms of origin, technology, materials, functions and market channels, and many refrigerator models can be found in the two brands. In contrast, Bosch products are equipped with newer and higher-end technologies.
Trendy look
The most impressive thing about Bosch refrigerators is not their function, but their striking and unique design. Bosch's colors are bold and avant-garde, while other brands mostly use basic colors such as white, metallic, and black, while Bosch is skillful in both dark industrial and solid colors. At the 2018 iF exhibition, Bosch also exhibited 20 refrigerators of the same series in different colors to create personalized options. Its main folio three-door refrigerator is bright purple, gorgeous and trendy, with a unique artistic beauty in the new era.
The most eye-catching, yet most overlooked, panel
Changing the color of the appearance is not only a simple change of dye, but also a combination with the panel material to make light makeup and heavy makeup. In recent years, most of Bosch's new products use tempered glass panels. Tempered glass is easy to clean, scratch-resistant, and has random patterns and colors, leaving enough space for designers to splash ink to create. Crystal clear glass makes better use of light reflection and makes the color more vibrant. Panasonic and Hitachi's flagship models are made of glass mirrors to expand the sense of visual space. The PCM color-coated board used in the middle and low-end refrigerators is single in color and dark in tone, and Haier, Midea, and Meiling thousand-yuan machines often use this kind of material. VCM laminated board uses film printing as the appearance pattern, which is mostly manifested as repeated texture, regular graphics, and can also imitate the brushed feeling of stainless steel, which is often used in Rongsheng refrigerators. The stainless steel panel does not leave fingerprints, and the metal texture is more versatile, but care should be taken to avoid scratches, and the color is single.
The Bosch refrigerator, which won the iF Design Award in 2019, is the first time in the history of a refrigerator that a ceramic panel is used. The ceramic panel naturally has the advantages of abrasion resistance, pit scratches, and the gray appearance has a natural stone surface texture, which is quite natural. However, it remains to be tested whether the panel is resistant to long-term oil stains, and it is a bold innovation overall.
Vitamin Zero preservation
Bosch refrigerators put forward the concept of "zero-degree vitamin preservation", which is similar in essence to Panasonic's micro-freezing technology, so that food can be stored in a frozen and unfrozen state, and find a balance between taste and storage time. However, Bosch has done a more detailed job by dividing the zero degree zone into drying cabins, vegetable and fruit moisturizing cabins, and meat storage cabins, and humidity control at the same time.
The fact that food is kept fresh at close to 0°C without freezing also determines that it can be used for more fruits and vegetables, which is a small step up from other brands that are still stored at refrigerated temperatures. However, it is worth noting that papaya, mango, pineapple, passion fruit, and lychee should not be stored in the refrigerator compartment.
The flagship product of the folio three-door
The flagship products of Japanese brands are all Japanese multi-doors, South Korea pushes more side-by-side doors and cross-door doors, Haier is a new stove to create an F-shaped five-door refrigerator, and Bosch is to pick up the neglected side-by-side three-door refrigerator.
Bosch has seized the advantage of a higher vertical expansion of the variable temperature zone with three doors and a large interior space to create an exclusive space for its zero-degree preservation technology. This partition is very conducive to the use of mixed cooling technology, especially to facilitate the circulation of air up and down the air in the air cooling system. There is no best type of refrigerator, only the most suitable refrigerator structure, and the Bosch folio three-door is suitable for families with large space and large freezing needs.
Smart APP
Regardless of whether it can really bring convenience, the accompanying APP function has gradually become the standard configuration of high-end home appliances, flaunting "smart", and many refrigerators have launched exclusive applications. However, the combination of the refrigerator and the mobile phone does not make much sense, and the refrigerator settings generally remain unchanged for a long time. Bosch appliances, including refrigerators, need to be connected to the "Home Connect" app to work with Siemens. For families with BSH home appliances, the same APP can be used to control, of course, the so-called "smart" functions that can be realized at present are also quite limited, if you buy Bosch refrigerators separately, there is no need to pursue this kind of "intelligence".
Mixing and after-sales service
Bosch does not offer direct-cooling refrigerators, all of them are air-cooled or mixed-cooled, which is unique among all brands. Japanese and Korean refrigerators are all air-cooled refrigerators, and domestic brands are mostly low-end direct cooling, mid-to-high-end air-cooling, and there are no hybrid refrigeration products. More than half of Bosch's products use mixed-cooling refrigerators, giving full play to the advantages of air-cooled without frost formation and direct cooling without blow-drying.
At the same time, in order to cooperate with the mixed cooling, most of Bosch's products use dual circulation and triple circulation systems, which can greatly reduce the circulation of food odor and bacteria in various areas. Overall, Bosch's mid-range products (4,000-7,000 yuan) are more competitive, and high-end products with more than 10,000 yuan are inferior to Japanese brands.
Bosch's after-sales service is between domestic brands and other foreign brands, and the after-sales and maintenance network is complete. The warranty time of the refrigerator is 1 year for the whole machine and 3 years for the main components.