Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: kitchen design

[Judy Hecht (judhee]

It was indeed a real commercial stove that I worked
on. Not only were the burners too close together to
accomodate large pots but it needed repair frequently
and cost a small fortune. 

I'm wondering if anyone has tried handling their
dishes with just household dishwashers instead of a
commercial sterilizer and how that worked for them?

Judy Hecht 
CoHo Cohousing
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> Thanks to everyone who has responded with info -
> good input to put into
> the stew. Keep it coming, pls.
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> 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
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> 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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> Real commercial stoves are a huge danger to the
> children of your community. They are not insulated
> and will burn anyone who touches them when the oven
> is on.
> 
> You're not building a commercial kitchen. You're
> building a place that should feel like home, and be
> reasonably safe for children, old people and the
> disabled. (hey, we're all temporarily abled, right?)
> 
> The main thing with a stove is BTUs. You want a
> high-end stove for at least one of your stoves
> because otherwise you'll be waiting an hour for
> water to boil in a big pot. 
>  
> Liz
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> New View has the same rules as Cambridge - no
> storage, but occasional use,
> mostly BYOB, has worked fine.
> 
> -Jim
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> On 12/2/06, Diane <dianeclaire [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Deidre,
> > Here at Cambridge Cohousing, we do not store
> alcohol in common areas.  At
> > common meals and events it is usually BYOB -- the
> second B is almost
> > always
> > wine or beer.   Occasionally we might serve wine
> or beer at some common
> > events.   We do not have rules about booze at
> private parties in the
> > common
> > house.   People serve whatever they want.   So
> far, all of this works very
> > well for us.
> >
> > Diane at CCH
> >
> >
> > On 12/1/06, Deirdre Slate <dslate [at] comcast.net>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello
> > > I am member of Camelot Cohousing and I
> participate on our futures
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Judy Hecht
CoHo Cohousing
http://www.cohousing-corvallis.com











 
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