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Separate bedrooms are common enough, bathrooms I can somewhat understand, but kitchens ? Why does your dream have this ?

baldeagle 7y ago
Not the OP, but sometimes I wish that I had a separate kitchen so I could prep like I did back when we lived apart and had date nights. Candles, clean kitchen, and hot food that she hasn't been smelling for the last hour...
asark 7y ago
Very different ideas of what and how to cook, where and how to store foods (especially, what goes in the fridge and what doesn't), and so on. Instead of one kitchen with both our stuff in it and little shared, we could have much more orderly separate ones with only a little duplication. It'd be fine if only one of us ever cooked, and if either of us didn't find the other's methods and tools frustrating to use at best, but that's not the case, so here we are. Examples: my ideal kitchen would contain a rice cooker and zero crock pots. Hers would have zero rice cookers and at least two crock pots. Mine would have at most two non-stick pans of any kind—really, I could live with just one—but several cast iron pieces, and some steel. Hers would have exclusively non-stick. I'd be entirely content with a single short built-in oven to save space. She'd want a full-size double oven. That sort of thing. [EDIT] also, whether it's OK to leave any small appliances on the counter full-time or they must all go in cabinets when not in use. We finally, after years, compromised on the stand mixer and we're up to a 4-slice toaster now so it's just too damn big to store, but the rest...
- mixmastamyk 7y ago
  One with dirty dishes laying everywhere, one neat and tidy.
  - asark 7y ago
    I didn't want to go for the low blow, besides I hold out hope that mise-en-place and clean-as-you-go will catch on one day. [EDIT] and actually I bet we'd both do a better job of keeping it clean, with separate kitchens.
- mrfusion 7y ago
  For some reason I’m really curious to hear about the difference in refrigeration preferences.
  - asark 7y ago
    One of us thinks that pretty much everything that's not refrigerated at the store doesn't belong in the refrigerator at home (onions, apples). The other disagrees.
    - disfadbish 7y ago
      you shouldn't put apples or onions in the fridge, they go bad faster. Apples also release ethylene gas which makes other produce rot faster.

baldeagle 7y ago

Not the OP, but sometimes I wish that I had a separate kitchen so I could prep like I did back when we lived apart and had date nights. Candles, clean kitchen, and hot food that she hasn't been smelling for the last hour...

asark 7y ago

Very different ideas of what and how to cook, where and how to store foods (especially, what goes in the fridge and what doesn't), and so on. Instead of one kitchen with both our stuff in it and little shared, we could have much more orderly separate ones with only a little duplication. It'd be fine if only one of us ever cooked, and if either of us didn't find the other's methods and tools frustrating to use at best, but that's not the case, so here we are. Examples: my ideal kitchen would contain a rice cooker and zero crock pots. Hers would have zero rice cookers and at least two crock pots. Mine would have at most two non-stick pans of any kind—really, I could live with just one—but several cast iron pieces, and some steel. Hers would have exclusively non-stick. I'd be entirely content with a single short built-in oven to save space. She'd want a full-size double oven. That sort of thing. [EDIT] also, whether it's OK to leave any small appliances on the counter full-time or they must all go in cabinets when not in use. We finally, after years, compromised on the stand mixer and we're up to a 4-slice toaster now so it's just too damn big to store, but the rest...

mixmastamyk 7y ago
One with dirty dishes laying everywhere, one neat and tidy.
- asark 7y ago
  I didn't want to go for the low blow, besides I hold out hope that mise-en-place and clean-as-you-go will catch on one day. [EDIT] and actually I bet we'd both do a better job of keeping it clean, with separate kitchens.
mrfusion 7y ago
For some reason I’m really curious to hear about the difference in refrigeration preferences.
- asark 7y ago
  One of us thinks that pretty much everything that's not refrigerated at the store doesn't belong in the refrigerator at home (onions, apples). The other disagrees.
  - disfadbish 7y ago
    you shouldn't put apples or onions in the fridge, they go bad faster. Apples also release ethylene gas which makes other produce rot faster.