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Skriven 2010-10-21 16:00:08 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 2924 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
Ärende: dream kitchen  was: seafood
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Hi Nancy,

 RH> Very much so. It was interesting to see; I'm wondering if it will
 RH> actually be manufactured and if so, how much it will cost.  I'm not
 RH> going to look for it on the general market for at least a year or so.

 NB> If it truly works, I imagine it will actually be manufactured and
 NB> marketed...  I'd expect it to be high-end, though... but there could
 NB> be sufficient market there for it to at least be tried.

We'll just have to keep an eye out for it.  BTW, your talking with the
other RH about stoves with push buttons and a deep fryer well coil got
me thinking.  That was the kind of stove my mom had in 1958 when they
moved into the house Dad built. It's the one I learned to cook/bake on
and was replaced in 1978 (77?) with the one she has now.


 RH> This house has a small closet just outside the kitchen--could be a
 RH> linen closet or a pantry.  We were using it for both for a while, then
 RH> bought a Rubbermaid snap together storage unit that we use for linens.

 NB> Thus freeing it for use as a pantry... :)

Yes, and we have improved on it. It has wire shelves that made small
things unsteady.  I'd slipped a piece of cardboard under one shelf but
hadn't done all yet. Then we ordered some bookshelves and one set came
in warped.  We were told to keep them and a replacement would be sent.
That came in OK so Steve cut down the shelves to fit the ones in the
pantry.  No more unsteady cans of tomato paste or other small likewise.
The bookshelves had a "lip" that Steve reversed when he put them into
the pantry so small things don't fall out as easy.

 RH> I'd kept some underneath the bathroom sinks as well but had to almost
 RH> stand on my head to get them out of the master bathroom sink cabinet.

 NB> Oh what fun.. (G)

For sure!  That's a small bathroom and we'd added a small plastic chest
of drawers to the limited floor space already.  There's no medicine
cabinet in there so some things that we'd put in one are on the sink, in
the drawers or in our nightstands.  We've talked about putting one in
but haven't, yet.


 RH> Now I have all the shelves in the closet filled (not quite brim full)
 RH> with pantry type items.  Steve wanted some tomato sauce yesterday and
 RH> found we were out of it.  Guess that'll have to be remedied; it's one
 RH> of my staples.

 NB> Not quite full enough if it doesn't have the staples... (G)
 NB> Surprising, isn't it, how easily space is filled... ;)

Very much so!  When we got back from our trip in July, I had an
interesting time re-arrainging things to accommodate all we'd bought. A
lot of it was small stuff but the multi grain puffed cakes and the rice
cakes took up a lot of space. I managed to squeeze it all in with
creative arrainging; now there's more space as we've snacked down on
that kind of munchie, used various canned goods, etc.

 RH> As long as we're nomads, the dream kitchen is just that.  It's nice
 RH> to think I might have it some day but the reality is, it'll probably
 RH> alwas be a dream.

 NB> Mine will always only be a dream as long as we still live here, as
 NB> there isn't really any way to make it happen here...  If our son comes
 NB> through with his long-ago promise to "build his aged parents a
 NB> retirement home", we might have some input as to what would be
 NB> there... then I might get
 NB> my walk-in pantry... and other things I'd like in a dream kitchen...
 NB> ;)

We've not had either of our daughters make that kind of an offer yet.
(G) As nice as Rachel's kitchen is, there are some things I'd tweak on
it to make it a bit more user friendly if possible if it were mine.  She
has a butler's pantry, as well as a walk in pantry.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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