Household appliance, comprising: - a drivable, especially rotatable, functional unit, - an electric motor being adapted to drive the functional unit, wherein the electric motor is a synchronous reluctance motor having - a stator, the stator having a number ns of stator slots (6_1 - 6_9) with concentrated stator slot windings (7_1 - 7_9), and - a rotor, the rotor having a number nr of rotor poles (9_1 - 9_6), - wherein a ratio r = ns/nr between the number of stator slots (6_1 - 6_9) and the number of rotor poles is 9/6, or 9/8, or 12/8, and - a control unit, adapted to control the operation of the household appliance and to generate control signals (S1, S2, S3), wherein the control signals (S1, S2, S3) are applied to corresponding stator slot windings (7_1 - 7_9), characterized in that - the control unit is adapted to generate the control signals (S1, S2, S3) such that a torque ripple is reduced, - the control unit is adapted to generate the control signals (S1, S2, S3) based on a vector control, the vector control using current components Iq und Id as set points, - wherein if the rotational frequency of the electric motor is lower than a first threshold frequency, the control unit is adapted to modulate the current components Iq und Id in response to a rotation angle of the rotor such that an angle α of a current I, defined by the current components Iq und Id, depends on the rotation angle of the rotor, and - wherein if the rotational frequency of the electric motor is higher than a second threshold frequency, the control unit is adapted to modulate the current components Iq und Id such that an angle of a resulting current I is constant. - a drivable, especially rotatable, functional unit, - an electric motor being adapted to drive the functional unit, wherein the electric motor is a synchronous reluctance motor having - a stator, the stator having a number ns of stator slots (6_1 - 6_9) with concentrated stator slot windings (7_1 - 7_9), and - a rotor, the rotor having a number nr of rotor poles (9_1 - 9_6), - wherein a ratio r = ns/nr between the number of stator slots (6_1 - 6_9) and the number of rotor poles is 9/6, or 9/8, or 12/8, and - a stator, the stator having a number ns of stator slots (6_1 - 6_9) with concentrated stator slot windings (7_1 - 7_9), and - a rotor, the rotor having a number nr of rotor poles (9_1 - 9_6), - wherein a ratio r = ns/nr between the number of stator slots (6_1 - 6_9) and the number of rotor poles is 9/6, or 9/8, or 12/8, and - a control unit, adapted to control the operation of the household appliance and to generate control signals (S1, S2, S3), wherein the control signals (S1, S2, S3) are applied to corresponding stator slot windings (7_1 - 7_9), - the control unit is adapted to generate the control signals (S1, S2, S3) such that a torque ripple is reduced, - the control unit is adapted to generate the control signals (S1, S2, S3) based on a vector control, the vector control using current components Iq und Id as set points, - wherein if the rotational frequency of the electric motor is lower than a first threshold frequency, the control unit is adapted to modulate the current components Iq und Id in response to a rotation angle of the rotor such that an angle α of a current I, defined by the current components Iq und Id, depends on the rotation angle of the rotor, and - wherein if the rotational frequency of the electric motor is higher than a second threshold frequency, the control unit is adapted to modulate the current components Iq und Id such that an angle of a resulting current I is constant.