How The Kitchen Function

A kitchen layout must enable you to perform a great many specific tasks efficiently and comfortably. Among these are:

1. Bringing in groceries and other household goods from outside. This is one of the reasons that the location of the kitchen, in relation to the rest of the house, is important. The location has to pass what we'd like to call a torn-bag-of-groceries test. If you’re hauling in a torn, heavy grocery bag from the nearest entry, you need a convenient surface on which to set it down before the bag breaks.

2. Storing groceries and other household goods. Your cooking and shopping habits will dictate how much and what kind of storage you need. For example, do you buy mostly fresh fruits. Vegetables, Meats, And fish, or do you rely primarily on packaged goods? Do you shop in bulk or on an as-needed basis? 

3. Preparing food. The relationship between the sink and the cook top is still the most important one in kitchen planning. Think of it in terms of how it passes the hot pasta test. That is, you need to be able to remove a boiling pot of pasta from the cook top to a colander in the sink quickly and efficiently. If you have to walk around an island or other appurtenance to do it, or if your path is usually crossed by kids at play, your kitchen plan fails the test.

The relationship between the sink and the refrigerator is also critical. It must pass the dripping Romaine lettuce test. That is, you need a quick, direct path so that you can retrieve fresh foods from the refrigerator and take them to the food preparation center without danger of dropping them or otherwise creating a mess in the kitchen.

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Vital to efficient meal preparation is enough continuous counter space for chopping, cutting, slicing, or otherwise processing and arranging food before it's cooked. 

If two cooks prepare meals together, there should be a mini-work pattern, for example, between the refrigerator, microwave, and a secondary sink, ad sufficient aisle space to allow one person to work without interrupting or bumping into the other.

Food preparation is also made simpler when the utensils, spices, and cookware are easily available to the cook close to the most-used appliances. 

Before the advent of the microwave oven, the cook top was the most-used cooking appliance, and ovens were the least. The microwave has changed cooking methods, however, so its placement has become important.

Serving meals

You need adequate to Set down pots, casseroles, and dishes. Such "landing space, “ should be provided next to key appliances: cook top,  ovens (microwave and conventional), and refrigerator, If have a sizable an island can be used not only as a food preparation area but also as a "landing" and serving area. Landing space next to a cook top or oven should be heatproof. Note that laminate counters. by themselves. are not heatproof, so a trivet or Other heatproof material should be kept handy.

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If the path between serving and dining is circuitous, it should be reworked. Similarly, it should be easy or you to go to the refrigerator from the dining area in the kitchen, to get the extra soda or ketchup you may have forgotten, without crossing the sink/cook top path.

Cleaning up 

Everyone least favorite task—cleaning up much simpler if the sink, dishwasher, and storage for dishes, utensils, and glassware are in proximity. Beware plans that show dishwashers angled next to the sink, however; unless there's enough clearance space, you won't be able to load or unload the dishwasher without feeling completely hemmed in.

If you have sufficient space. consider using one sink for cleanup purposes. clustered with the dishwasher. storage for everyday dishes and glassware. and the recycling center. A secondary sink can be devoted to meal preparation tasks.

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