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Kuppersbusch has a new design for built in stovetops. Instead of the usual round units that come two to a built in unit, they have honeycomb shaped units.

You have your choice of 3-6 units and they can be tesselated in a multitude of ways. The red unit is the control.

Not all shapes can be tesselated, but the honeycomb design is one that is featured in nature quite heavily because it’s the most efficient of the shapes that can be tesselated. When a bee makes a honeycomb, it uses less wax making the six-sided shape than it would a triangle or a square. An octagon uses less wax, but you can’t tesselate an octagon (it leaves a hole between the shapes). That’s your math lesson for the day.

As cool as this stove is, I am completely unwilling to pay approximately $5000 for the six unit version. I’ll stick with my cheap $200 stove because I don’t cook often enough to make something like this feasible.

Looks cool, though…

For More Information:

• Electric Cooktops by Kuppersbusch – built-in honeycomb cooktop | Trendir

• Gear Live | Kuppersbusch Built-In Electric Honeycomb Cooktop