Cohousing-L Mailing List: Kitchen appliances--commercial grade?

[Ceil Malek (cfrenchmalek]

Answer some or all of our questions.

Casa Verde Commons, Colorado Springs, CO, (a community of 34 households
with about 75 residents) needs to replace our sanitizer (part of the
original kitchen installed 22 years ago),which no longer works reliably and
our stove, purchased used five years ago, with gas burners and a convection
oven (36 inch, commercial quality),  which is not working reliably enough.

We'd like to know what other cohousing communities use in their kitchens.
Do you use a sanitizer? Commercial?  If so, what brand and what's your
experience with reliability and ease of use?  When did you buy it, and how
much did it cost?

What about your stove?  Do you use gas or electric or gas and electric?
Did you purchase a commercial stove?  What size?  What brand? Cost?  What
has your experience been?

Information about the size of your community and the scope of your meals
program and how the appliances are used would be helpful.

 If answering all these questions is too time consuming, just answer the
ones that you have information about.

Thanks so much for your help.

Ceil Malek
Casa Verde Commons