There have been many threads on these and similar sinks(I know because I have read the all-LOL) I bought the 36" kraus but it's not installed yet. I really don't think it will be and issue for you. But I'm only 5'3". Does it come with the bottom grid as well? That will raise your working height up a bit. I'm sure other posters will chime in with their advise too. They are the ones that convinced me to go ahead and order mine. I love GW!!

I have this sink. I haven't installed yet either (this Thursday - YAY!!!), but I did 'simulate' before we demo'd the old kitchen. I'm 5'6" and I loved it, even tho it was just practice!! Check out www.expressdecor.com too, I got mine there w/free shipping, free return when I ordered the 33" in by mistake, and got a package deal with a Kraus faucet. It included the grid, drain basket and dish towel. Good luck!!!

A sink is "too deep" for only 1 of 2 possible reasons:

1) It blocks your use of the under-sink cabinet, so that you can't fit a GD plus cleaning supplies or trash pullout or custom U-shaped drawers or whatever else you have in mind.
2) It gives you a backache because you clean pots and pans as they are lying down flat on the sink bottom. I have never cleaned anything this way, so sink depth doesn't matter to me. Watch how you hold your pots pans and dishes, and see whether you clean them flat. If you always hold or tilt them, then sink depth won't matter to you.

I'm 5'8" and the other cook in our house is 5'9". We demoed washing dishes at different heights, cleaning the sink itself, and feeding food scraps down the disposal and decided we didn't want our sink bottom any lower than 27.5" off the ground (meaning about a 7" depth (undermount) is our preference).

We do tilt extra large skillets to wash them, but often wipe around the whole rim while it is in one position (holding on to the handle), which requires wiping near the bottom of the sink and leaning in (which we want to avoid if we have a choice -- and we do). Other people might rotate pots and skillets, and not have this issue or not care. Since we do lots of actions at our sink that cause us to want to reach the bottom, we prefer a higher sink bottom than many standard sinks today.

Our main cook's aunt (who is 94) has a wide sink (original to the house) that is only 5 inches deep. She's only 5', though. That sink is a pleasure to work in, even for us at much taller heights. We don't want to go that shallow, though -- depth does have advantages for some tasks.

Best to test for yourself, and see what tradeoff you prefer.

I have a 10 inch Krause sink (not the farmhouse, but that doesn't matter). The depth doesn't bother me. I'm only 5'3". However, it also doesn't bother dh who is 6'3". I love the depth for cleaning pots and pans and for hiding things if I don't have time to clean them right away!

We really wanted to order the Krauss 10" because of cost, but my wife tried working in a 10 " and didn't like it at all because she did find hard on her back. It's a very personal thing so you should definitely try one. She is also 5'6". I respectfully disagree that the depth doesn't /shouldn't matter - it most certainly did for us. We ended up with a Kindred 70/30 double bowl with the large bowl being 9" deep and the small bowl 8" deep. The best advice is to try it for yourself.