The SilKEN^® Induction Cooking System made by Kenyon Custom, received a Silver award in the Major Appliances & HVAC category in appliance DESIGN magazine’s 24^th Annual Excellence in Design Award Competition.

The SilKEN^® induction cooking system represents Kenyon Custom’s entry into induction cooking technology, enhanced with the SilKEN^® silicone mats.  SilKEN^® is a comprehensive green and sustainable, energy efficient, safe and easy to clean specialty cooking appliance.  Immediately applicable to the residential, marine, recreational vehicle, hospitality, institutional, military and academic housing markets, that satisfies a commercial product void in an unmet marketplace.

“The purpose of appliance DESIGN’s annual design competition is to honor those designers who have excelled in meeting the modern challenge of harmoniously melding technology and industrial design,” said Maggie McFadden Shein, appliance DESIGN editor.

An independent panel of three industrial design experts performed judging of the entries. Evaluation of the entries was based on four criteria: appearance, human factors, innovation and technical merits. Each year, the Excellence in Design awards attracts a very high-level group of competitors and each submission is carefully examined and judged by our independent panelist of judges.

The judges noted that the companies behind the honored entries demonstrated that they are serious about industrial design and showed that seriousness by attention to details and innovative approaches that sharply differentiated winning products from their competitors. Another common element found among the recognized products was the ability to make technology more accessible to the user.

Photos and descriptions of winners will appear in the June 2011 issue of appliance DESIGN magazine, and in the digital and online versions at www.applianceDESIGN.com. 
appliance DESIGN is a publication of BNP Media, Troy, Mich.