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The 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

• mcv 7y ago
  In 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.