I know I haven't done a whole lot of complaining about my kitchen situation. I've been too busy complaining about work and people I work with.
Well, here's the deal: I like to cook. Really, I do. I like cooking foods that people found dry and bland during childhood and make them edible. I like it when people pick up their fork and eat nonstop because they fear that whatever it is on their plate will be swiped by food pirates.
I don't cook much anymore. There are a multitude of problems in our kitchen, one of them being the fact that our stove and oven (see figure A) don't fit our lifestyle. It's one of those units where it was sold with interchangeable cartridges for the cooktop. The buyers chose to get 1 regular coil cartridge and one grill cartridge. The only time I ever use the grill is when I don't have enough burners to cook my met on. It's too damn hard to clean when you're done, and frankly if you don't clean it, the house stinks. The burner unit is less than fully functional because the back burner is too small and too close to the front burner to put anything but a small pot on. That's great when you're heating up some canned green beans but using it to make gravy while you mash potatoes up front is impossible.
The oven, *sigh*. It just doesn't cook evenly, and it's really hard to put a full-sized cookie sheet in there. They just don't fit unless you slant them against the side wall.
The microwave. Well, the microwave is sort of stigmatized. When we moved in it (and the stove) were caked with grease and mold and STANK very badly. It's the kind that doesn't rotate the food and the rack is missing. It grosses me out to think of how it smelled when I opened it the first time.
Wait - not done yet. We have a severe lack of counter space because of the fact that we have a second microwave next to the sink. We have to have the second microwave because the only thing the one over the stove is good for is melting butter.
So, quite diplomatically we chose a new stand-alone range/oven and over-the-range microwave
to replace both pieces.
I'll be able to have a meat, two vegs, and gravy, and I'll have room on the countertop for that stainless Kitchenaid mixer I've been eyeing for a few years. (Oh, bread dough, I've missed you so!)
Posted by Tiffany at December 4, 2005 12:13 PM | TrackBack