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[Luke Cage]

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(Parks and Rec)

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[from the Great British Bake Off series 7, Selasi/Bejamina]

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[Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle]

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]

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RIGHT? And then there's all the people who "need" a huge chef's kitchen for their vacation home...as if you're going to be cooking five course dinners on your holidays.

Yes! Or they just HAVE to have an American sized fridge or they can't survive.

And granite counter tops! How are people supposed to prepare their food on disgusting laminate??

I mean as somebody who cooks who comes from a house of cookers, I would really prefer granite because it's way easier to keep clean, and lasts longer... but if they're so set on granite, why not just get the counters replaced?
/doesn't watch the show

I'm sure they could, but the show doesn't usually address potential renovation work during the real estate visit. Also the people who are making a big deal about granite counter tops are often people who don't cook. They just think it's super important for cosmetic reasons.

ah ok. That's just stupid, then.
Also: from my experience in shitty kitchens, the layout is wayyyyy more important than the size. A small kitchen that's intelligently constructed will be more convenient than a big one just slapped together, imo.

Absolutely agree. A lot of those fancy kitchens designed mostly for show eeally wouldn't be good to cook in. As for the counter tops, that's definitely a case where the layout and actual amount of surface area matter a lot more than what material they're made out of.

Definitely. I'd rank layout as the absolute most important thing for a kitchen, though I think that long-lived materials would be second. If you're going to have a good kitchen, you don't want it breaking down on you... but that goes for the cabinets and everything too.
But I'd rather have a good layout with laminate counters than a shitty layout with granite, for sure.
Besides, for one main cook I don't think a huge kitchen would be the best anyway. You want everything to be in reach, not have to walk halfway across it carrying pots and pans.

What makes for a good layout?

1) Enough workspace. Ideally there should be a few counterspaces, and there should be enough room for multiple bowls and chopping board and food processor or whatever else you need to be working with at once.
I personally like having a reasonable space right next to the stovetop, so that you can transfer things to/from the stove with minimal spillage and mess. The more you have to carry things across floor space, the more potential mess there is.

2) adequate storage. There are a whole bunch of things that are necessary: mixing bowls, cooking utensils, knife block, spice rack/drawer, place for oils/bottles, drawers big enough for pots of all sizes.
All of these things need to be stored, but they also need to be within easy reach. You want to be able to pull out the spice you need when you need it, not unpack an entire cabinet to do so. You want your pots stacked nicely but visibly, so you're not rummaging in the bowels of some cabinet and have to take everything out just to get at one pot. You need enough space on the counter for a knife block and spice rack, or alternately a spice drawer of the proper depth (many drawers are too shallow or too deep)(also I tend to prefer both - not ALL spices need to be out all the time, but you still want them accessible!).

Basically it boils down to things being accessible and comfortable to reach, and having adequate workspace. Many of these things can be solved with the bare minimum of design, but I've been in too many kitchens where they just slapped in a bunch of drawers and cabinets and don't give a shit, and then I have nowhere to put my big pots or bottles of oil.
The crux of it, to my mind, is being aware of the sizes/shapes of things, and having drawers of the right size. For example, I like having a deep drawer for oils, because you can easily pull them out from the top and see exactly what you have. Same with spices, but shallow drawer.

Obviously there are other aspects, such as windows (you definitely want good air circulation in the kitchen!), but those you might have less control over if it's a prebuilt house.

Good to know.

Thank you.

Agreed from a fellow cook - granite is used for a reason.

I cook, too. Granite is nice, but it's hardly indispensable in a kitchen.

Seconding the granite love. I grew up with countertops that weren't heat resistant. I never, EVER want to have to deal with that again.

ayrt

lol I'm so used to granite countertops that I wasn't even thinking of the fact that other materials aren't heat resistant! Dang. What a disaster that would be.

... are trivets and pot holders really that hard to use? I've never lived anyplace with granite countertops. Now I'm wondering how I managed to survive so long.

THIS. I despise the granite countertop *thing*. I would much rather have polished concrete or recycled glass. I mean, look at these!

What if you drop a heavy pot? Would that glass surface be up to it?

They seem pretty durable: http://www.countertopguides.com/guides/pros-and-cons-of-crushed-glass-countertops.html

And frankly, the boring-ness of granite would not make me choose it over recycled glass on the off-chance i'd drop a heavy pot. I don't actually *own* any heavy pots, and despise cooking, so it's not a worry.

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