Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Private amenities vs common resources

[Anne Jackson (a.jackson]

Whatever you do, I urgentlly suggest to skip the microwave. The small
studies done suggest that it denatures the food. Like many other products
and processes on the market, they mainly enrich someone else's pocketbook.
My sources were from conversations with other environmental experts, but you
may find something on www.mercola.com   Anne Jackson, Environmental Health
Association, L.A.
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From: <manya [at] shaw.ca>
To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 9:15 PM
Subject: [C-L]_Private amenities vs common resources


>
> We have just joined a cohousing project (after a
> long association) which is completing construction.
>  At this point we are faced with decisions about
> what our individual unit layout will be.  And
> so...we are grappling with kitchen issues for our
> "unit".  We were going through the usual discussions
> about what cabinet  should go where when we had a
> "lightbulb moment" about appliances which was, "wait
> a second, why are we considering a standard 30" gas
> oven with range when on a daily basis we never use
> more than 2 burners at a  time for any routine
> family meal, and we probably roast something twice a
> week?"  After all, for the twice yearly need to
> roast a 20lb turkey we can use the common kitchen.
> From there we started to rethink what we needed in
> our private kitchen (after all, isn't one of the
> principles/effects of cohousing that we share
> resources?). So I was wondering what solutions other
> cohousers found for their "personal" kitchens:
> smaller (two-burner) ranges, combination micro-wave
> convection ovens, etc.?
>
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