Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: kitchen design

[Judy Hecht (judhee]

Here at CoHo Cohousing in Corvallis, Oregon we are
just building so I base my thoughts on cooking at the
local soup kitchen for several years. The expensive
commercial stove that we had there was a disaster. The
large burner size didn't work because they didn't put
enough space between the burners to accomodate large
pots. The pots ended up touching and burning the food
in the spots where they touched. When we chose the
stoves for our common house we looked at commercial
stoves and found that they also had the burner spacing
problem, were expensive, and had poor Consumer's
Reports ratings for repairs. We chose two
non-commercial stoves with 2 large burners each and a
total of eight burners. In my experience that is more
than enough burners but I'm obviously into using fewer
but bigger pots.


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> Hi Joellyn!
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> Hello
> I am member of Camelot Cohousing and I participate
> on our futures 
> committee.  We have been discussing policies for
> post-move in life.  
> One of the topics is the use of alcohol in common
> areas especially the 
> common house.  We were wondering how you have
> handled this issue and 
> what kind of policies have you adopted?   What are
> your rules for 
> serving alcohol at common meals and events?  When
> someone uses the 
> common house like for a wedding or private party
> what are your rules 
> for serving then?  Do you store any alcohol in
> Common areas?  We are 
> just trying to get a sense what's legal and
> functional.
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> From: Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Some learnings about group
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> On Dec 1, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Rob Sandelin wrote:
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> > When large groups try to make small group
> decisions, many people get
> > frustrated and waste a lot of time. For example,
> its dumb to decide 
> > what to
> > plant in the community garden in a general
> meeting, too many people do 
> > not
> > care about how many rows of carrots there are, and
> those that do, are
> > annoyed to have to explain their work to people
> who will never do it.
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> What I would add to Rob's wisdom is that it is
> important for the large 
> group to decide what parameters the smaller group
> can work within -- to 
> set boundaries and expectations. But the larger
> group should not say 
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Judy Hecht
CoHo Cohousing
http://www.cohousing-corvallis.com











 
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