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When the author mentioned the “messy kitchen” I thought it was a joke. Now I realise, as a European, that American house design is just absurd form over functio
by TazeTSchnitzel 7y ago
When the author mentioned the “messy kitchen” I thought it was a joke. Now I realise, as a European, that American house design is just absurd form over function. If you need a second, practical kitchen to deal with your main kitchen not being usable for its ostensible purpose then something is horribly wrong.
- anm89 7y agoThis is a straw man and a half. She literally gives a single example of this and implies it's normative Do you really think this is normal?
- goto11 7y agoThe idea of a "messy kitchen" certainly exist in Europe, see Scullery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scullery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scullery It is not a new invention.
- mcv 7y agoIn NL we've got the "bijkeuken". Modern homes rarely have them, but old farm houses almost always do. Our new house incidentally does have one, which is indeed messy, and mostly used to store kitchen equipment we rarely use, as well as all the kitchen machinery, including the water kettle and coffee maker, that we don't want in plain sight. Apart from making tea and coffee, we don't do any actual work there, though. The real kitchen is still messy, because that's where the real cooking happens.