This is the model kitchen at the Home Depot in the South Bronx.
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@futurebird Dang, if I could buy a high-quality little two-burner with a mini oven???
I can only remember one time when I used three burners in over ten years. And I could have skipped it. But a little counter... more storage? I would pay for that! I bet thousands of people who shop at this store would.
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@futurebird they may be under the impression that showing the expensive stuff gets people in the mood to spend but i think that sounds like typical marketing brain assuming you can trick people instead of working with them
This isn't showing me expensive stuff. It's things that don't make any sense ... Like showing me an industrial pizza oven and a dishwasher designed to clean only huge pizza pans. It's interesting but ... I don't even get it.
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I also suspect they sell a lot of stoves. "landlord specials" which are the cheapest ugliest things you've ever seen.
But that's probably all they sell.
They should have commercial stoves for the local eateries and cute tiny ones for condo and coop owners. But whatever ... don't make money. I don't care.
But even if they can't manage to sell stoves that are more localized and popular they should just rip out the show kitchens it's a waste of floor space. They could put a stack of air conditioners there or something that people would want to see and buy.
But, the Home Depot formula says there must be a goofy show kitchen, and they just slavishly stick to that formula.
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But even if they can't manage to sell stoves that are more localized and popular they should just rip out the show kitchens it's a waste of floor space. They could put a stack of air conditioners there or something that people would want to see and buy.
But, the Home Depot formula says there must be a goofy show kitchen, and they just slavishly stick to that formula.
OK I can admit I have a deep aversion to suburban kitchen design. And I think I will find out where they make the appliances for kitchens on yachts. Might have more luck there. I've always wanted a kitchen that felt like it was on a boat.
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OK I can admit I have a deep aversion to suburban kitchen design. And I think I will find out where they make the appliances for kitchens on yachts. Might have more luck there. I've always wanted a kitchen that felt like it was on a boat.
@futurebird prepare to spend about triple than what you'd pay for the equivalent functionality from a big box store if you buy marine appliances
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@futurebird prepare to spend about triple than what you'd pay for the equivalent functionality from a big box store if you buy marine appliances
It might be cheaper to buy a boat and scrap the kitchen ... but then you'd have a boat which is kind of like being cursed in a way (unless you are on it and sailing and then its the best thing ever. )
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OK I can admit I have a deep aversion to suburban kitchen design. And I think I will find out where they make the appliances for kitchens on yachts. Might have more luck there. I've always wanted a kitchen that felt like it was on a boat.
@futurebird I worked at a tiny restaurant in a lake. It's kitchen had equipment that all fit into a walk-in closet, like being on an old, sketchy shrimp boat's galley.
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OK I can admit I have a deep aversion to suburban kitchen design. And I think I will find out where they make the appliances for kitchens on yachts. Might have more luck there. I've always wanted a kitchen that felt like it was on a boat.
@futurebird I reckon https://100r.co/site/galley_refit.html may tickle your fancy. From @neauoire and @rek
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@futurebird I worked at a tiny restaurant in a lake. It's kitchen had equipment that all fit into a walk-in closet, like being on an old, sketchy shrimp boat's galley.
I can't prove this but I think that the smaller the kitchen the more likely the food is to be good... just as a rule of thumb.
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@futurebird I reckon https://100r.co/site/galley_refit.html may tickle your fancy. From @neauoire and @rek
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I can only remember one time when I used three burners in over ten years. And I could have skipped it. But a little counter... more storage? I would pay for that! I bet thousands of people who shop at this store would.
@futurebird @carrideen You might not get a two burner at a size that makes the oven really usable, but I did have an apartment once with a kitchen that would have fit NYC (it was formerly a hallway, literally zero counter space, weird reno) and it had a "compact" stove with four burners but the oven only took a half sheet pan rather than a full sheet pan, the burners were fairly close together to get the foot print very small. You couldn't really put four things on that stove at once without knocking into things, but I think someone decided three would look weird.
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@futurebird @carrideen You might not get a two burner at a size that makes the oven really usable, but I did have an apartment once with a kitchen that would have fit NYC (it was formerly a hallway, literally zero counter space, weird reno) and it had a "compact" stove with four burners but the oven only took a half sheet pan rather than a full sheet pan, the burners were fairly close together to get the foot print very small. You couldn't really put four things on that stove at once without knocking into things, but I think someone decided three would look weird.
I do not understand the need for more than two burners. What the heck are people doing? Making French five course meals??
