What do you use for mise en place bowls?
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Comments (29)I shop at multiple stores. Pay day is every other Friday so I that is when I go to Wal-Mart or Smith's (Kroger owned). Every 2 weeks we also get coffee beans at the little mom and pop shop. We go to Sprouts every 2 weeks as their ads overlap on Wednesdays. This is actually getting less frequent as they have not put the bulk things on sale that I want the most as frequently (steel cut oats and short grain brown rice). The bread outlet is a once a month trip. Other stores such as Keller's (for meat), Trader Joe's, the international markets, Vitamin Cottage (for other bulk items), I alternate months. Some things I get through Amazon's subscribe and save and that can vary in frequency. Eggs are mostly from my hens and many of our vegetables come from our garden. Some of the variety in shopping is about the money savings but it is more along the lines of trying to match the quality to a certain price point and meeting my needs of acquiring a diversity of ingredients. Arborio rice at TJ's, quality meat at Keller's, red lentils in bulk at Vitamin Cottage, etc. Part of it is me trying to maintain a well stocked pantry because my moods are fickle and if the pantry has a variety of things, I can cook according to my mood. Pre-planned menus never, ever work for me....See MoreWhat do you put in decorative baskets and bowls?
Comments (13)I also love bowls, especially ceramic, pottery, and brass ones. I use a variety of handmade pottery ones in a stand I have in my kitchen - a smaller one holds garlic, another holds shallots, another brims with onions, and another for potatoes. A couple shallow bowls hold my kitchen towels and cloth napkins. Next to the sink there is a tiny bowl where I can place my rings while I do dishes. On top of the fridge is a nice silver bowl where all the loose change goes. The cat eats and drinks out of old pottery bowls that are more shallow. In my studio, I have several large brass basins and bowls that hold my brushes and other supplies. A brass bowl on the entryway console table is where my keys go, and a larger ceramic basin is where I toss the mail as I come in. In my bathroom, I have a long shelf and I have several bowls there - they are great to hold hairbrushes and makeup brushes, Bobby pins, etc. In the bedroom, there is a small bowl or tray on each nightstand - great place for watches, hair pins, rings. I rarely use bowls as merely beautiful objects, because there are so often a utility to them so they can both be serving a purpose as well as being beautiful - for organization like I do in the kitchen and bathroom, managing loose odds and ends such as hair pins, loose change and mail, and even easily-dismissed functions like as pet dishes....See MoreDo you use a 'garbage bowl' ?
Comments (27)We have the "chicken bucket". All veggie ends and parings, used paper towels, leftovers forgotten in the back of the fridge, and meat scraps (no bones) go in there and it's taken out to the chickens. They run to the fence when they see me coming with it. They especially like it during canning season! They eat what they want, the rest gets mixed with the straw along with the exit material from the chickens and it all gets mixed in with the grass clippings in the compost bin. Figure first time through the chicken is better than it rotting in the pile. Double duty if you will....See MoreDo you prefer a 1-bowl or 2-bowl sink?
Comments (33)This is one of those things that's a personal preference. Like a few others above, we prefer a 2-bowl sink. We deliberately selected it despite everyone saying not to. We have never regretted our choice! The key to a 2-bowl sink, as others have also stated, is the sizing. Unless your sink is enormous, don't get one with equal-size bowls -- 70/30 and 60/40 work much better. The unequal bowls allow you to have one bowl that is large and one that is small and you use them according to your need at the time. I sometimes wonder if the people who so adamantly loathe a double-bowl were only exposed to those 50/50 sinks -- even in a 36" wide sink base, they're too small or too large for the majority of sink tasks. Another consideration: If you have two sinks in your kitchen, you have, in essence, two bowls to work with -- the cleanup sink and the prep sink. This doesn't mean that if you have two sinks you should get a single-bowl cleanup sink nor does it mean that if you have only one sink you should get a double-bowl sink. It's still a matter of personal preference! Three sizes are key... Sink base size -- In my opinion, if you are going to get a double-bowl sink, the minimum sink base size should be 36". Any smaller, and the bowls are going to be too small for most tasks. Sink size -- The larger the sink itself, the larger the bowls can be. Bowl sizes -- The bowls should be unequal in size, but each size should still be useful. If the smaller bowl is too small to be useful for anything, then you will hate it. Ditto if the larger bowl is too small for larger tasks. In our case... Our sink base is 36" wide Our sink's overall dimensions are 35-1/8" x 20-7/8" (Ticor 405D) The interior dimensions of the bowls are: -- Large bowl: 21-3/8" x 18-3/4" x 9"D -- Small bowl: 10.5" x 15-7/8" x 7"D It works perfectly for our needs: The larger bowl is large enough to fit (flat) every pot/pan/cookie sheet I own as well as my vent hood's squirrel cage insert and all my refrigerator shelves and drawers (except the 36" wide one, which wouldn't in the vast majority of single-bowl sinks either). We didn't have room to store a dish bin when not in use and I didn't want it sitting on the counter or in the sink when not in use -- it's clutter! My DH uses the small bowl to soak silverware w/o having to fill the big side. It's also useful if the large bowl is filled with dishes, b/c the small bowl is usually empty or close to empty. The large side is for stacking dirty dishes if the DW isn't available. It holds a lot of dirty dishes! It's also big enough to clean refrigerator components, etc. Both fit all my pots for filling, although I usually use my prep sink for that task since it's closer to the cooktop and it has a pull out faucet instead of a pull down (a pull out works better than pull down when I'm filling a pot on the counter so I don't have to lift it up and out of the sink.) I have occasionally wondered about the low-divide for that rare instance when I clean the 36"W refrigerator shelf in the sink (I usually wipe it down in-place b/c it's so bulky), but it's not enough to make me unhappy with what we have -- I am very happy with my 2-bowl sink!...See MoreLars
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