Week 111 - The #1 on your wish list for the kitchen

7 years ago

What was the one thing you always wanted to have for your kitchen? Whether you got it or not.

For me, it was a French door oven. I suffered for decades with minor burns on my forearms from the drop down oven doors. It seems like I get burned about 50% of the time that I use our upper oven.

They finally made one in the US that you can buy but I thought it would be another 8 yrs before I could save enough to get one.

Fortunately or not, I ran into two brand new Blue Star French door ovens at a huge discount. DH was so excited that he committed to helping me pay for it so I bought them.

His idea of what it actually cost was way off. His $500 contribution basically covers the front panel of one oven. He was horrified at the end cost but it was too late. No return.

As a result, I had to figure out ways to cut the non avoidable cost from the kitchen. This includes learning how to cut mirror and glass, using our closet doors for the kitchen and custom fitting the new upper cabinets around IKEA innards.

I'm also building some of the cabinets myself, making my own tiles for the backsplash in the bar area and making my own countertop.

What was your #1 desire and did you have to compromise or give up things for it?

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cpartist

7 years ago

last modified: 7 years ago

When we did our condo 6 years ago I wanted an induction cooktop in the worst way. We had to have electric and I absolutely hate electric.

I was all set to buy induction. Did my research, planned on buying the Bosch 800 induction cooktop. Talked up the wonderful features to DH. Went on and on about how wonderful induction was going to be.

Until early one morning when I woke up in a panic and realized we couldn't do induction. I realized induction is created by magnets and DH has a pacemaker! Not even when he's made me mad have I ever considered frying him with the magnets, since they don't come much better than him.

He told me I could get the induction and he'd just stay away from the cooktop. Now I do most of the cooking, but he does occasionally help out, so that didnt sit well with me.

I gave up my dream of having induction.

Fast forward to now. We sold the condo and are building our "dream" house. I had the choice of induction or gas and assumed I'd have to get gas which didn't thrill me. It didn't thrill me because we are in FL and I wanted a surface that didn't heat up the kitchen, and I liked the idea of the much easier cleanup.

This time I got smart. First I did lots of reading online. I got the number of DH's pacemaker, and called the company that makes his pacemaker and asked them. They looked it up and basically told me that as long as his pacemaker is 6" or more from the surface of the cooktop, he'll be fine. So we will finally be getting induction! Woo hoo!

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