Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: kitchen design

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

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Thanks to everyone who has responded with info - good input to put into
the stew. Keep it coming, pls.

As to this post, are you sure you're talking about a real commercial stove
as opposed to one of the designer quasi-commercial stoves being sold to
people building fancy kitchens at home? The reasons I ask are 1) I've
never known CU to review true commercial stoves because "civilians" hardly
ever buy them, and 2) we had one in a restaurant I co-owned at some time
in the past and that one had plenty of room between burners for large pots
- which is why it was a restaurant grade stove. At Arboretum Cohousing I'm
anticipating the use of a lot of large pots!

Robin Alexander

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From: Judy Hecht [mailto:judhee [at] yahoo.com]
Sent: Sun 12/3/2006 11:58 PM
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ kitchen design



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.