bp, you’re 15 - 20% away from the right answer....

eam, oooohhhhhh. Adding to my list for Santa!

salex, overthinking is a good thing!

DD has the old traditional stainless divided sink. A small one at that. I was about ready to take the roasting pan to the bathtub to wash it!! (don't worry, I didn't)

That is a beautiful sink eam44. Yours too, RCK. I like a deep sink as well and have an 80/20, or maybe it’s 85/15, I can’t remember, which serves me pretty well. I think the next iteration will be one large sink. I do wonder about placement of the drain. Offset to one side, back center, or other? There seem to be a variety of opinions about what works best and why.

@bpath - what you wrote is what I tell people all the time on this forum. They don’t believe me. Though I don’t think there is a such thing as 80-20 or 85-15 sink. Unless you go custom, your closest choice is 70-30, and I’d only recommend that (for enough space for a roasting pan) if the overall sink width is 36” or more. Just get a single bowl next time. You won’t regret it.

I also have a double sink. You have to clean those large pans in phases!

Ours is a double sink but very deep!

Our house came with the double sink. The previous owners didn’t remodel the kitchen, just the new corian countertop with integrated sink. Easy cleaning. But the double sink? Nope.

We have a triple sink and a roaster would fit in two sides. I love my sink. I would never want another. The worst part of Thanksgiving is the over eating.

This was the first time my siblings, their partners, and 2 guests saw my new(ish) kitchen, and it was fun. Lots of oohs and ahhs.

The worst part of our Thanksgiving was having loved ones scattered and unable to be together, but mostly the fact that my elderly parents were sad this year at how things have changed. I wish I had been able to have a kitchen full of pots and pans to wash, as that would have indicated a house full of people.

Sorry to be a downer, but the reality for some is bittersweet. The holidays are pretty anxiety ridden at times. I feel I can't make it all better for the parents I love so much.

Sorry to hear that Ida. I hope next year you’ll all get to be together.

I also hope that next year my family will all be together again, and I’ll be cooking in my own kitchen that will be completed by then (way to go still!), and maybe graduate to the grownup table. Heck, i’ll be able to use my dining room again. We can all sit at the same table!

Hang in there TB!

Well, T B, I suppose washing the roasting pan wasn’t really the worst part of this Thanksgiving. The worst is it’s the first without Dad, and that a couple of weeks ago Mom didn’t recognize me for the first time. But those are the ”firsts”. The double-sink dilemma is perennial, until we move or remodel :)

Ok so sitting at the kids table was fine. bp, so sorry to hear that. Here are more single bowl sink pics to generate sweet dreams. Goodnight everyone.

My work-around the disgusting cleaning of the roasting pan is I refuse to cook a turkey, so my sister does it at her house. All the mess stays there, and she brings the cooked, carved meat to my house. She has an old, small double bowl sink. I don’t know how she gets the roasting pan clean. I am most thankful that I don’t have to worry about it. Or see it. Or smell it. ~shudder~

We have a 4” Galley sink (single bowl workstation) and it handled eve we threw at it (in it?) beautifully. It came with a large basin (the size of a small sink) that we even used for soaking small things like silverware, which actually fit above the pans soaking underneath. I highly recommend a workstation sink.

If you fill the roasting pan with an inch or two of water and throw in some dishwasher detergent (for a DW machine), cover and let simmer for about 10 minutes, then let cool until you can comfortably clean it, everything will glide right off.

Which is why whenever asked about sink choice, I tell them why I like the single big bowl! I'd NEVER have another double sink again! PITA!

Daisychain- we do that whenever we have stuck on messes in pans- works great!

I put DH in charge of turkey. One smoked on the egg & the other fried. (Yes, we are in the South!!) The guys can be outside, drinking beer &OUT of the kitchen!

I deglaze the cooked bits in the pan with wine and usually end up with minimum mess in mine. What does comes clean in the DW - love my Miele ;)

This year I brined a 22 lb turkey and then used a cooking bag. The juices from the bag went into a fat separator and then to the sauce pan with white wine and Wondra flour for a delicious gravy. No fussing with a crusty roasting pan and the turkey was moister and more flavorful than ever before. This will be my go to from now on.

^^^ that's my annual go to plan. The bag for the cleanup win!

The dishwasher powder is my go-to! I didn’t think to heat it on the stove, though; I usually just let it set overnight. There’s still the spatters, though, that cook on and need some BKF or Choreboy. And of course rinsing the pan after. Without getting water on the counter or floor.

bpath, if you cover and simmer, the steam/fumes seem to loosen the splatters as well (on the inside of the pan at least). We seem to be moving towards a mostly vegetarian diet and, I'm just now realizing, that clean up after cooking has become much easier. I will miss a big chunk of meat at holiday time though.

I love my single bowl sink. If I want "sections" I use a plastic tub or colander. Cleaning the roasting pan was a nonissue.

There were just my daughter and me for dinner. Of course we missed the rest of our scattered family and those no longer with us. We spent dinner time and after reminiscing about good times (and not so good). It felt really good to compare, resolve, and gently explore the old stuff.

The worst part? Too much leftover turkey. It's okay day-of and next day, but not really my favorite protein.

@T B, I apologize for my reply. I didn’t mean for you to retract your comment, which was pretty funny and yes, it can be pretty trying to be trapped for the weekend! I’m happy that I only have to travel for DH’s family Thanksgiving in October, and it’s a shorter holiday weekend with no football (Well, CFL, but come on) or shopping! I was thoughtless, and I’m sorry. One of the things I’m grateful for this and every year is these forums. They are a great place to share ideas, events, fun, and support. I know everyone here has a story. I’m holding up well because what options are there, and I take it all out on that danged double sink.

Bunny, that sounds like a cozy Thanksgiving :)

Or you can always do what my dog did...

We started out smoking our turkey but the smoker had a hole in the bottom so Dh couldn’t get the temperature hot as he needed. Rather than eat super late, he took it out after a while and finished in a roasting pan in the oven. That resulted in a little bit of unplanned juggling of how to cook the side dishes. there was a bit of chaos when the turkey came out so after removing the turkey from the pan, I put the roasting pan on a brick on the deck railing outside. And promptly forgot about it while cleaning up. Next morning, Dh is raking leaves in the back yard and looks up to see our dog on top of our deck storage box (so she could reach the pan), licking the entire thing clean. . I’m embarrassed to say, it actually made the clean up much easier!

Ditto Wilson: The bag! Self basting, juicy, tender, and easy cleanup.

When we change our sink, I am definitely going for a large single like the ones with which I grew up. I hate the double sinks.

Make gravy and your roasting pan will be easy to clean.

The worse part for me was the need to put up Christmas almost immediately, we have a big party here on the 14th and will be out of town next weekend, so the last 2 days have been all about Christmas. It feels like I just took it down a few days ago.

I'm still nibbling on the remains, so I have yet to tackle the pan. I found a large disposable aluminum roaster pan that I'd stashed away some years ago. With a sheet pan and rack inside for extra support, it made a terrific roasting pan. The pan will go in the trash and the sheet pan and rack in the dishwasher.

I have a double sink, but one side is three times the width of the other, and the divider only goes up 1/3 or 1/2 of the way. The smaller size has the garbage disposal.

I love my old-fashioned double drainboard sink in Maine. I love the runnels and the big lip all around that keeps water from dripping onto the floor. I don't think these can be beat, though I appreciate they don't fit in everywhere.

Because of travel schedules, we bought a Fresh Herb & Apple Cider Brined Fully carved precooked whole Turkey, 16lbs from a caterer. It was not cheap -- $129.99 -- but it was delish, and beautifully plated as well. Next year will prob be in CT, since we have more room here and the kids in the family like to swim in the indoor pool (keeps them busy!) so I will have triple ovens and more time, so I will probably make my own turkey again. But it sure was nice to have that part done!

Things do change. Thanksgiving was my Mom's favorite holiday and once my Mom died in 2014, we all seemed to scatter. (We decided to not stay in NY until after Thanksgiving like in previous years. We were snowbirds at the time, now full time Fl residents.)

For Thanksgiving 2014, DH and I flew to Costa Rica on Thanksgiving morning to start a wonderful birthday celebration (mine) and then a cruise through the Panama Canal. I didn't want to even acknowledge Thanksgiving that year as I missed my Mom terribly.

The next year and every year since, dear friends here in FL invited us to their Thanksgiving dinner. We all chipped in bringing stuff. I brought the pies and zucchini bread (homemade of course) and it turned out that my friend even made the stuffing exactly like my Mom did.

Two years ago, because our dear friends live in a small apartment, I asked them if they'd want to move the celebration to our new house. They did and last year and this year we celebrated with theirs and our good friends in our house. They still made the turkey and stuffing, I still made the pies and zucchini bread and our friends brought sides and appetizers and we all had a wonderful time.

The point of all this is, yes things do change but hopefully you all find new ways to celebrate and be happy together either with family or friends on the holidays.

Around here the worst thing is the inevitable Lake effect snow storm over the weekend. We made the mistake of going out to get a few things today and saw a good dozen slide-offs. It is Dec. 1 and Michigan is underscoring that winter is begun!