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Appliance trends: This year’s cooking show focuses on colors, cooking times

Northstar Appliances offers modern appliances in 1950s styling in a range of bold colors. (Sam Shelanski/Karen Schwartz via AP)
Northstar Appliances offers modern appliances in 1950s styling in a range of bold colors. (Sam Shelanski/Karen Schwartz via AP)
photo Some new items AGA offers as options for two-, three-, five- or seven-oven configurations in its ranges, along with a choice of 15 enamel finishes. (Sam Shelanski/Karen Schwartz via AP)

Whether you’re Paleo, vegan or something in between, today’s luxury kitchen appliances are designed to let you individualize everything from color to cooking method.

“There’s a paradigm shift to personalization in the kitchen,” says Christopher von Nagel, president and chief executive officer of BSH Home Appliances Corp. North America.

BSH, which makes the Bosch, Gaggenau and Thermador brands, and more than 500 other exhibitors showed off their wares at this year’s three-day Kitchen and Bath Industry Show, held in Las Vegas. Walking through the crowd of more than 100,000 dealers, builders, architects, designers and suppliers, it became apparent that anyone shopping for a new kitchen should be prepared to make a lot of decisions, because the choices are overwhelming.

Among the highlights:

Cooking in color