Pot Fillers! Countertop vs wall mounted? Placement over burners?
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Comments (3)I've got to say, your pictures aren't that helpful, because I can't tell where your niche is in comparison to your stove or rest of your kitchen. We're no experts, but I'll tell you how we decided. We too have a 48-inch range, and I ended up putting it 10 inches from the right side of the edge of the stove, and 18 inches above the counter level. We too were stumped about where to put it, so this is what we did. We pored pictures of kitchens that had pot fillers to try to calculate more or less where other people put theirs. Everyone said to measure your tallest pots. My tallest is about 11 inches, but it sits higher than that (from counter level) when it is on the range burner. I also noticed that a lot of people tended to put them at the height of the lowest part of their cabinets, which is 18 inches in most people's cases. It looks good to me at that height. While 18 sounds high, once you put the faucet in, the bottom most part of it is not that much higher than your biggest pot as it sits on the burners. I also didn' want it grazing my pots. And because this is a big stove, as is yours, then I wanted it to accomodate the biggest meal, biggest quantities we would ever prepare. Why else have a range and kitchen with these proportions? We both have big extended families and entertain a lot. As to where to locate it left or right, I decided that since our big main sink is to the left of the stove (on another wall) I wanted the pot filler to be more on the right side of the stove. We have a six burner Viking, with a 12-inch griddle more on the left side of the stove. It also made more sense to have the pot filler over the double row of burners, which are more to the right side of the stove. At 10 inches from the right, the pot filler is almost right between the two sets of burners on that side of the stove. Basically, you just have to see what looks right to your eye, and what would fit best with whatever backsplash/niche you will have. The height is what you most have to worry about, I think. Good luck deciding....See MoreDecluttering Help - Dish Rack on counter vs. sink, folding vs. no
Comments (40)I have a question. I often put my pots/pans right back onto the stove to dry, instead of taking up room in the dish rack. Is this a bad idea? They really don't seem to drip at all. (I usually leave the lids in the dish rack, though.) I have an older Simple Human dish rack, and keep two narrow silicone OXO drying mats underneath it for my cooking knives. I also pull those mats out to the side when I have wine glasses to dry. I'd love to get rid of this system, but I can't bring myself to commit to hand-drying all the time right now, in the middle of a move. It might be my next New Years' goal, though. My MIL has zero counter space and hand-dries all the time, even when she visits here. I've been intrigued! (Years ago, my New Years' goal was to make my bed daily and wash my sheets weekly, and it "stuck" -- going on at least four years now!)...See Moredrop burner height for large pots
Comments (2)I think it could work with this caveat: the exposed sides of the adjacent sections of cabs may need to be heat-resistant depending on how much space there is between them and the sides of the big pot. Ex.: say you decide to have a 4' section of lowered counter with the big electric burner plunked in the middle of it. Assuming you have an very big canner (but not the largest restaurant pot you could possibly ever get) say 18" in diameter, then the potentially flammable exposed sides of the adjacent cabs (assuming there are any) would be 15" away from the canner, and probably safe. But if you have narrower lowered section, say 27"-30", then you would start to have a problem unless you constructed the exposed sides with heat resistant materials, at least similar to a back splash and maybe even more protected since the barrier around the hot section would be more enclosed - in U-shape - in from one side across the back and out to the front again. I hope this is clear, and helpful. As far as a covering, I think you could cover it, but there might be safety issues if you didn't have a positive shutoff. Imagine someone visiting the kitchen that didn't realize that the switch they turned on was an eletric resistance coil under the counter! Do you know that it is possible to buy Amish-made canning vessels (water baths) with spigots near the bottom for emptying? I have thought of purchasing one as it would make emptying it out so much easier. You could get one of those wall-mounted pot fillers to use at the start, and a water bath with a spigot for the end of the day. (I would be figuring out how to hook up a hose from that to my prep sink, I think.) The other possibility to think of is having a stove with enough top-room so you could keep more than one w/b in progress at once. As a pratical matter I find that since I work alone for most things I usually have a pretty good match between the number of jars I can fill and the processing times for a load. When I use a pressure canner, that falls by the wayside, of course, since those times are very long. However I sometimes use my largest pressure canner as w/b for very large, stacked loads for some loads, especially cold-packed items where I can do a lot (18-30 units depending on jar size) at once. Such large loads, or straight pressure packs take attention once you start so I tend to not be prepping the next load while I'm processing the first. The best thing to have is a trusted adult companion while canning. That would beat the benefit of almost any improvement in the physical set-up in my opinion. Canning for fun by yourself may be a blast, but canning for serious family-sized food preservation is a lot of work. Hard, but satisfying. There are some people here with significantly canning-oriented kitchens - do some more searching and you will find threads and discussions - some with drool-worthy pics! HTH, L....See MorePot Filler Location - center or side?
Comments (5)I have been working on this for a few more hours and I think I am starting to get an idea. Visually centered when retracted puts the mount point 3" off center. Conveniently that moves the handle out from directly over the center burner. When retracted the mass is just above the spout. With that in mind, vertically I could put the spout 16" above the cooking surface. The mount point would be 3-1/2" below that. The grates are 1" above counter grade so that puts the spout 17" above counter. The hood is 34" above counter (I am very tall) so that puts the mass very close to the vertical center. Unfortunately, that can make things look low but given the hoods extension from the wall I think it works. Thoughts? Is 16" above the cooking surface too high? Most of my pots are 10" or less but I am not sure I want it TOO close to the cooking surface....See MoreHeather N
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