Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A major appliance is a large machine which accomplishes some routine housekeeping task, which includes purposes such as cooking, food preservation, or cleaning, whether in a household, institutional, commercial or industrial setting. An appliance is differentiated from a plumbing fixture because it uses an energy input for its operation other than water. Major appliances are differentiated from small appliances because they are large, difficult to move, and generally fixed in place to some extent. They may be roughly divided into refrigeration equipment, stoves, washing equipment, and miscellaneous. In the distinction White goods / brown goods most are white goods. Major appliances include: dishwasher dryer freezer and refrigerator furnace Ironing. stove, also known as range or oven; cooking plate Vacuum cleaner. water heater washing machine This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.