What My Kitchen Must-Must-Must Have...
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Comments (15)I've been reading self-help, cleaning and organizing blogs and magazines for years. One thought that stood out "You can't organize clutter." The only way to deal with clutter is put things away where they belong and toss as much as possible on a regular basis....See Moretemporary kitchen must-haves
Comments (27)Some of the temporary kitchen has to do with what one can realistically do with construction going on and with the location of a sink. Our kitchen / dining room was demolished this week. We were without electricity in that section of the house so using the bathroom sink (located off the kitchen) was difficult. If you can move everything out that is the best scenario. My refrigerator stayed in the kitchen and that has been a bit of a problem. Now moving it is difficult because all the doors have been sealed up. My contractor works on Saturday so I am unable to do much while he is around. Yesterday we spent a fair amount of time discussing outlets and such. So I didn't get to cook as planned. I have learned a few things this week: I can only cook when the contractor is not around. No quick dinner prep in the morning before work. I have to be super organized when I go food shopping so that I only buy what I can realistically cook. We don't use disposables so we took out our plastic ware after breaking a cup when carrying dishes to the basement for washing. Having an alternate source of fresh cooking / drinking water has been very helpful. We are using a five gallon bottle with a manual pump (dolphin brand) in it. My favorite cooking appliance is a portable induction one burner (I have pots that are induction ready) that I purchased when I was testing induction. Having the bar near the temporary kitchen is a great plus!! A sense of humor doesn't hurt either. Nor does liking the taste of dust which seems to be everywhere -- LOL!!...See MoreTell me what a 'must-have' is for my new kitchen!
Comments (30)We're just weeks from moving into our new house, but we built in 2001 and I've reproduced the things I loved most about that house in the new one. I'm one who loves deep drawers -- I kept my daily dishes -- heavy stoneware -- in one and my shoulders appreciated not having to lift them into a wall cupboard. I hated the two "door" cabinets I had because I had to sit on the floor to dig things out. The new kitchen is almost all drawers -- and the two door cupboards have pullouts this time. Full extension drawers -- wouldn't be without them. Under cabinet lighting -- ditto. The best quality cabinets you can afford. It's easy to fall in love with a look and sacrifice quality. Resist the temptation. For me, a fridge with a freezer on the bottom. The apartment we're in while building has a top freezer and I curse it every time I have to stand on my head to get something out. My old fridge was a single door, bottom freezer -- I loved it. The new one is a FD bottom freezer. I hope I like the FD as much as my DS and DDIL do. I know I'm WAY in the minority here, but I've had a ceiling fan in every kitchen since 1977, and I can't imagine not having it. I thought long and hard before sacrificing snazzy over-the-island pendants for a pedestrian fan and light -- but I love having cooling breezes while I'm cooking. The snazzy pendants are going over the sink. We loved our island in the last house, but found it a bit too small when entertaining. The one in the new house is more of a continent. I'm almost embarrassed . . . but we'll never find it too small!! Have fun planning! The link below has a lot of great ideas . . . Here is a link that might be useful: Maybe more than you wanted to know!...See MoreMust Have Appliances in a Small Kitchen.
Comments (45)Must not be any other Asians here, because our Must Have is our Zojirushi fuzzy logic rice cooker, esp. because we eat both brown and white rice. Unfortunately, it has a larger footprint than a regular rice cooker. Our other Must Have is the Instant Hot which is used multiple times per day. IMHO, an Absolute Must Have is anything used at least three times per week. A Probable Must Have is anything used weekly. The really questionable items are used under once per month, so you have to weigh how you would manage without it, and the difficulty of storage and cost of replacement. Then, there's the stuff my mom gave us and we never use like the fondue set and the George Forman grill. Unfortunately, they are not new in the box because we felt obligated to use them once since she kept asking, and we are worried that she might remember and ask us again. Thank goodness we have a basement!...See Morepaulineinmn
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