After waiting for nearly ten years to have my twenty-some-odd year old kitchen redone, my husband and I are finally getting closer and closer to our goal. This week, I’ve spent a lot of time online picking out various gadgets and appliances and looking at designs.
You see, I know nothing about interior design…I only know what I like when I see it. And while I’m a enthusiastic cook, I have no idea the gadgets and such that are out there. Like this weekend, when I discovered that Kitchenaid makes a SINK that is actually a DISHWASHER. A sink, people. And while it only cleans about 5 dishes and various utensils, it does it in 18 minutes. 18 minutes! On silent mode.
Must. Have. This.
And you would have thought I’d discovered the Holy Grail when I bounded into Lowe’s and saw the POT FILLER. This is a faucet that is on the wall behind your cooktop that allows you to fill large pots of water (like for pasta) without dragging the thing to the sink. Holy cannoli, as I’ve been wont to say. I want that, too.
So let’s say you’re designing your dream kitchen. Other than a live-in cook (it’s a given, people,) what would your dream kitchen have to have in order for you to be very happy? Do you cook? Entertain? Does your hubby cook?
I love to cook. It’s my favorite procrastination when I have a book due. Which I do. Only instead of cooking this time, I’m designing a kitchen. My life is so weird.
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I am not a very enthustic cook. However, I am very good when I do. I would love to have one of those stoves that has six burners. That way I could get everything done at one time. I would also want it to have a built in grill on the top, I love to grill and it always seems to rain when I want to cook out. Good luck on your new kitchen. I hope everything runs smoothly and you get all of the gadgets that you dream of.
by Patty L.
on April 3rd, 2007 at 9:43 am
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Thanks, Patty! I really wish I could have a gas cooktop with six burners, but we don’t have natural gas in my area and I don’t like having propane lines running through my house. So the cooktop I’ve chosen has the max of five burners, electric. As for grilling, living in Florida, we can and do grill year round. I’ve often grilled with an umbrella in the rain! I hadn’t thought about putting one inside because our grill is just a few feet away on our patio. But it does sound ideal for someone who lives in places with less hospitible weather. Our neighbors in Atlanta used to laugh because we’d grill in winter…but we’re used to doing it all the time!
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Julie, I’m really jealous. Our kitchen is ANCIENT. I actually think it’s where linoleum comes to die. One day we’ll have to suck it up and remodel, and then I’ll insist on one of those gorgeous islands with an extra sink, where everyone in the family can sit on cool tall chairs and eat. I can hardly wait.
Ann
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Ann, I’ve been waiting 10 years–the kitchen is original to the house and is over 20 years old…appliances as well. I can’t even get my stove/oven fixed anymore because GE doesn’t make parts! Hubby and I have been saving for years. I’m not looking forward to construction (redid the bathrooms 7 years ago and it was a NIGHTMARE) but the end result, I hope, will be worth it!
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Okay. I want both of those. Now. 
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Walk in pantry, tuckerbox freezer that’ll fit a whole cow in it if I want too. An island with lots of draw and cupboard space built into it and a rinsing sink so as to make preperation of food easier. Both a regular and a steam oven built into a wall massive amounts of storage and a rail on the wall I can hang things off. A gianormous induction cooking stove top, I mean you have to love that it cooks with magnets and doesn’t get hot plus I want that tap behind the cooktop cause darn that’s a good idea. Big double door fridge with a handy door and an ice dispenser. a dishlex dishdrawers and I’m sure there’s more but I can’t think of it at the moment
by Megan
on April 3rd, 2007 at 11:00 pm
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I’m not much use in the kitchen myself, but I love the pictures. Oh to be able to afford some of those nifty appliances…I’d probably spend more time inthe kitchen then LOL.
by Stacy ~
on April 4th, 2007 at 5:36 am
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Megan, GREAT suggestions. I just heard of the steam oven yesterday on the food network. Never seen it before. I haven’t heard of induction cooking stovetops, but will go look it up.
Wish I could have the walk-in pantry, but space, alas, it at a premium. I’d have to give up my inside laundry room…and that’s not happening! I can’t imagine people who do laundry in Florida in their garage! Oh, the heat!
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I’d love a warming drawer. And the potfiller, and an ice box, and….oh lots of things.
by Nicole
on April 4th, 2007 at 8:18 am
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Omg on that kitchen. I want that. I just want a big wide double sink and a fauce that doesn’t splash me everywhere when I wash pots. Is that too much to ask? And why can’t the sink be next to the stove? And more space for food prep. I don’t have enough of that. Nothing in my kitchen is convenient.
And I’m so glad I’m not the only one who procrastinates on book deadlines by cooking. I swear I became a master chef on my last book deadline. 
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Well, if the live in chef didn’t come with my new kitchen, I’d want a really big microwave. . . I’m not the one who cooks here, but when I do it’s in the microwave. LOL
Lois
by Lois
on April 4th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
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http://www.kleenmaid.com.au/products.asp?pageID=3&cat=16 I went to a demo of one of these and you can have a pot on the stove top full of water boiling merrily away and put your hand on the burner the pot is using and it’s not hot even right up next to the pot you just feel the heat of the pot not the stove. Here’s the best part though you can toss a teatowel over the cooktop stick the pot on top of that and cook away. All the splater lands on the tea towel so there’s no clean up how cool is that!
by Megan
on April 4th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
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I am not a cook. I make dinner, but my hubby is the cook. He loves to cook, it relaxes him and he loves playing around with ingredients. I just reap the benefits. And have to clean up afterhim. So of course he manages to use every pot we have whenever he cooks.
by Kris
on April 5th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
And you would have thought I’d discovered the Holy Grail when I bounded into Lowe’s and saw the POT FILLER. This is a faucet that is on the wall behind your cooktop that allows you to fill large pots of water (like for pasta) without dragging the thing to the sink. Holy cannoli, as I’ve been wont to say. I want that, too.
