/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16607115]

Could you live with a small kitchen?

[Anonymous No.16607119]

I have a pretty small kitchen right now, it's small enough that I can't put a microwave somewhere unless I want counter space. It's fine for me, I don't cook anything too extravagant anyway.

[Anonymous No.16607136]

>>16607115
My kitchen is smaller than this and it's perfect for two people to cook together. The only thing wrong with that pic is that they have an electric stove.
The only problem I've ever found is that I can't go nuts buying appliances because I don't have room for them.

[Anonymous No.16607140]

>>16607115
My first apartment had a small kitchen and it was OK because my roommate and I were both clean people. I inherited my mom's house a few years later and its kitchen is huge but I made the mistake of letting a retard live with me so there was always something on every horizontal surface including the sink and that was awful.

[Anonymous No.16607158]

post kitchens a la battlestation

[Anonymous No.16607190]

>>16607115
I live in yuropooria, everything is small here. Fucking 4000 poons for a small flat in london anon.

[Anonymous No.16607200]

>>16607115
Wtf is wrong with you OP.
Have you seen the kitchens in the regular department in Japan, China, Korea, Hongkong?

There's and outside world, anon

[Anonymous No.16607282]

>>16607115
I already do. You just have to keep your counters as clear as possible to maximize workspace. It’s actually nice to have everything within easy reach.

[Anonymous No.16607317]

>>16607282
this is a normal sized kitchen, we Americans just like giant ones with islands and shit

[Anonymous No.16607328]

>>16607115
I currently live with a kitchen about half that size. Electric coil stove as well. If you need a big expensive kitchen to cook you can't really cook.

[Anonymous No.16607338]

>>16607282
get a fucking liquor cabinet you fag. also red wongs are shit whats wrong with you

[Anonymous No.16607340]

>>16607338
>also red wongs are shit whats wrong with you
How much time do you have?

[Anonymous No.16607441]

>>16607115
There are Michelin starred kitchens that are smaller than that. When I remember this, I know I have 0 excuses to produce something good.

[Anonymous No.16607489]

>>16607441
french tire company

[Anonymous No.16607501]

>>16607489
Same company that makes pic makes most of the home appliances in American homes. What's your point?

[Anonymous No.16607511]

>>16607501
anus logo

[Anonymous No.16607526]

>>16607338
>wongs are shit
I'll be kicking down your door tonight, good luck.

[Anonymous No.16607647]

>>16607115
No I can't even fit my twin in the kitchen.

[Anonymous No.16607665]

>>16607115
My kitchen is smaller than this and I get by with it just fine. It is just a matter of not cluttering up your countertops with useless shit. Having a microwave mounted is nice, too, but I never fucking use it. Thinking of getting rid of it and installing a proper range hood.

[Anonymous No.16607675]

>>16607501
>manufacturer manufactures things
>manufacturer rates food
>same thing
retard

[Anonymous No.16607686]

>>16607115
my kitchen is the same size as the one in OP and I just spilled out more shelving into the next room and put a couple of things on carts too

[Anonymous No.16607688]

>>16607665
You have to vent it outside

[Anonymous No.16607783]

>>16607115
This kitchen looks like absolute contemporary trash. Will be outdated in 1 year

[Anonymous No.16607794]

>>16607783
Thanks for pointing out the obvious. It's not my kitchen, either.

[Anonymous No.16607799]

>>16607688
Stove sits on an exterior wall. I can drill a hole outside.

[Anonymous No.16607805]

>>16607115
Prefer it. Large kitchens at home are nothing but marketing shit. "Look honey, we can cook together with all of our friends over." The reality is that one person does 99percent of the cooking. So a galley kitchen - like a station on a line - is by far the most efficient.

[Anonymous No.16607813]

>>16607115
Mines got about that much counter space but more floor space, it can get annoying if you're doing a big thing but I put a lot of stuff on the sink like roasting trays out of the oven or cutting boards.

[Anonymous No.16607828]

>>16607799
Checked. Its beyond drilling a hole. You are better off going through the attic and running a small chimney with a flapper so that you keep the house ibsulated

[Anonymous No.16608374]

>>16607338
zoomers don't remember good red wings, really sad desu :(

[Anonymous No.16608379]

I can't live with myself

[Anonymous No.16608381]

>>16608374
im 29 you faggot. outside of a brief stint TEN years ago, wongs havent been relevant for TWENTY years.

they are shit and nobody cares. nobody cares about cups from the fucking 1930s

[Anonymous No.16608401]

Yes. My floorplan for my kitchen is probably ~60 sqft. It was hard to adapt to for the first couple months (I was living with my parents who had a kitchen almost 3 times as large), but once got acclimated it's not so bad. Really the problem with my kitchen is that there isn't enough counter space. But I'm going to remodel in the next couple years and add another counter.

[Anonymous No.16608414]

>>16608401
Forgot to attach pic. It's messy because I just made dinner and haven't cleaned up yet. It was a pot roast. Shit was cash.

[Anonymous No.16608490]

A large kitchen is fucking Kino and it makes it much more pleasurable to cook, but sometimes you gotta do what needs to be done, picrelated is my current kitchen

[Anonymous No.16608497]

I basically just microwave shit, so sure.

[Anonymous No.16608504]

>>16607282
post the one with the meme rgb lights on pls

[Anonymous No.16608505]

My kitchen is the air fryer I have in my apartment, so yes I think I could live with a small kitchen

[Anonymous No.16608523]

>>16608401
>>16608414
this isn't that bad really. get something like picrel and put it under the window and you have another few feet of counterspace and cabinet.

[Anonymous No.16608526]

>>16607282
>>16607338
^ this but unironically
Get a liquor cabinet, what a waste of space

[Anonymous No.16608560]

>>16607115
Why not get rid of that wall behind the stove and raise and extend the counter so that that becomes an island? If you really need more cabinet space, put cabinet doors on the other side of the island and make it one wide shelf inside. Then you get a bigger kitchen and a dining space at the same time instead of being squeezed into this space.

[Anonymous No.16608690]

>>16607115
i need a big kitchen. i like to entertain.

[Anonymous No.16608695]

if i lived alone then sure, it might be annoying for food prep days but nothing i cant fix with a bench on wheels

[Anonymous No.16608713]

>>16608695
>food prep days
What's that?
Make your own stock etc?

[Anonymous No.16609061]

>>16608490
Show us what is in that fridge.

[Anonymous No.16609066]

>>16607115
Pic rel was the kitchen in my last apartment, so...I think I'd be alright, yeah.

[Anonymous No.16609096]

>>16607115
Is that supposed to be small? I wouldn't want a kitchen bigger than that.

[Anonymous No.16609110]

>>16607115
Kitchen in the image is not small. I would say its a "medium" kitchen.

[Anonymous No.16609212]

>>16607115
this was pretty much my setup in my first apartment in college. I cooked about 5 days a week and you have to get a bit creative especially when cooking for two. But the only thing I really missed was a proper oven

[Anonymous No.16609989]

>>16607338
.t doesn't own a kitchen.

[Anonymous No.16609995]

>>16607115

I can live with a small kitchen.
I could not live with an electric stove

[Anonymous No.16610058]

>>16607115
Yes a compact functional kitchen would be totally fine

[Anonymous No.16610567]

bump

[Anonymous No.16610583]

I used to share a house where every room has a bathroom but the kitchen was shared. Not sharing that so I just got a desk and a minifridge, toaster and microwave, with a plug in frying pan. Used the water from the bathroom faucet. did dishes in the shower.

[Anonymous No.16610622]

>>16607282
Fucking leaf.

[Anonymous No.16610674]

>>16609066
Show your starfish

[Smurf-fag No.16611124]

>>16607115
>>16607282
Its length compensates the wide. Pic rel. is mine, I want to save up some money to buy a counter and move the refrigerator where the microwave is

[Anonymous No.16611134]

>>16607115
I had a small kitchen in my university dorm room.
Just a stove and a fridge, not even a microwave or a toaster for a while until my roommate bought them.
It's not what I'd prefer at all but it's manageable.

[Smurf-fag No.16611140]

>>16611124

[Anonymous No.16611149]

>>16607489
And yet they know food, crazy how that works

[Smurf-fag No.16611151]

>>16611140

[Anonymous No.16611869]

i lived in a Leo Palace (brand chain of cheap rental apartments in Japan) for 3 or 4 years at one point and pic related is what the kitchen looks like.
Off the left frame of the picture is the front door, the top left is the bathroom and door on the right is through to the 1 room.
Kitchen's basically an afterthought in the hallway, but it works for a single male.

[Anonymous No.16612005]

>>16607115
Stuck with an apartment kitchen about that size, it's fine.

[Anonymous No.16612012]

>>16608713
I think he means in the /fit/ way, where you cook for the entire week.

[Anonymous No.16612023]

>>16611869
Were you taking this on a ladder or are Japs that short?

[Anonymous No.16612036]

>>16607115
>small kitchen
Look at what a €1300 apartment here gets you lol

[Anonymous No.16612055]

>>16611869
>No fish grill
Now that's a cheap-ass kitchen.

[Anonymous No.16612143]

>>16611869
Holy shit people actually live like this.

[Anonymous No.16612153]

>>16612036
In the states €1300 would rent you a very nice two bedroom, 2.5 bathroom house with a real kitchen and a separate dining room.

[Anonymous No.16612167]

>>16612153
What a retarded comment. Totally devoid of context.

[Anonymous No.16612186]

>>16612153
$1500/1600 will maybe get you a studio in a new building around here. And this isn't even a particularly expensive city.

[Anonymous No.16612188]

>>16612167
Seethe more you dumb eurocuck

[Anonymous No.16612214]

>>16607200
>insectland
>living

There is no living as an insectoid. Only existing. Such is life in the bugman hive

[Anonymous No.16612222]

>>16612186
2br 2ba is generally achievable for $1500 in some parts of the country.
The comps near the lot my company is developing in Austin are all 1200-1400. All built in the last 5 years.
Trying to quantify the real estate market in a massive nation is retarded on its face though, I agree there.

[Anonymous No.16612226]

>>16612153
Depends on where you live. If you're in LA or some shit, you could be spending 1.5k/month on a literal broom closet.

[Anonymous No.16612246]

>>16612226
I don’t take liberal shitholes into consideration.

[Anonymous No.16612252]

>>16608490
based schizo kitchen poster

[Anonymous No.16612258]

>>16607115
I had that same sized kitchen for about 5 years.
Not bad if there's only one person cooking.
My parent's kitchen is even smaller.

[Anonymous No.16612295]

>>16607136
>The only problem I've ever found is that I can't go nuts buying appliances because I don't have room for them.
My roommate has a TON of small appliances.
Air Stream oven (pic related), toaster, coffee maker, food processor, meat grinder, sous vide machine, crock pot, egg poacher and a stick blender.
Gotta keep most of it on the shelves when not in use.

[Anonymous No.16612300]

>>16612295
Shit! I forgot the Foreman grill, two panini presses and the waffle iron.

[Anonymous No.16612486]

>>16607115
if you think this is a small kitchen, you've lived a sheltered and/or upper-class life

[Anonymous No.16612635]

>>16607115
yes

[Anonymous No.16612684]

>>16612635
best post in thread

[Anonymous No.16613366]

>>16611149
they dont though

[Anonymous No.16613466]

>>16607115
Small kitchen is OK, but a kitchen without a gas stove simply sucks. My current kitchen is tiny and I never feel inspired to cook because the stovetop is shit tier

[Anonymous No.16613536]

>>16607115
That's huge compared to what I have right now

[Anonymous No.16613551]

>>16613536
Borges is cool

[Anonymous No.16613560]

>>16613536
Scandi tier

[Anonymous No.16613577]

>>16613551
Ye

>>16613560
Ye

[Anonymous No.16613898]

>>16612300
SHIT!!!!!
I completely forgot the deli-slicer!

[Anonymous No.16613917]

>>16607115
>>16607282
you fuckers call that small?

[Anonymous No.16614416]

>>16609066
Why would you waste your little counter space like that?

[Anonymous No.16614473]

>>16613917
even if I was a hermit, I wouldnt compromise on living space

[Anonymous No.16614478]

>>16614416
...you know that the cutting board isn't fused to the counter, right?

[Anonymous No.16614495]

>>16614478
Maybe he means the dishwasher, which is on space you can't use from in the kitchen, or the narrow-ass shelf on the side?

[Anonymous No.16614506]

>>16607282
get a look at this fucking millionaire

[Anonymous No.16614527]

>>16607115
That kitchen is a perfectly adequate size. Can't have tons of small appliances out, but the only ones I have out every day are my kettle and rice cooker.

>>16607140
>there was always something on every horizontal surface including the sink and that was awful.
This. Doesn't matter how big the kitchen is if you live with messy cunts.

>>16613917
This would be a little difficult.

[Anonymous No.16614560]

>>16609066
What's in the cat?

[Anonymous No.16614571]

>>16612036
At least it has an oven.

[Anonymous No.16614587]

>>16613898
The only thing I miss about working at a deli is the deli-slicer. It was relaxing watching all the meat and cheese come out.

[Anonymous No.16615116]

>>16607282
Mine's half the size of this. My condo is huge for my area but was built 100 years ago so the kitchen is tiny and the storage space is pitiful and my dining room is full of massive boxes of ingredients.

[Anonymous No.16615187]

Absolutely, live in nyc kitchen is only 8x16, counter depth fridge with a second in the basement for overflow helps. When I renovated the biggest improvements was opening up a wall to the living room and doing an oversized island so it didn’t feel closed in and adding a 36” stove with an outside vented over powered hood

[Anonymous No.16615202]

>>16607665
If you actually cook a lot, especially over high heat a correctly vented exhaust hood is one if not the most important parts of a functional kitchen

[Anonymous No.16615204]

Is it better to knock the wall down and have an island, but sacrifice the dining table?

[Anonymous No.16615216]

>>16607828
What are you talking about? Why would he put 20-30’ of ductwork when he can exhaust right behind the hood? You can get a wall jack with a flapper that would function the same way as a roof top vent without the loss of cfm’s that’s that long of a run will bring

[Anonymous No.16615229]

>>16612153
Depends on the state and even more importantly the city.here in nyc good luck finding a audio for that

[Anonymous No.16615572]

when I was in Japan my kitchen was just a sink and a stove. I had to put a cutting board over the sink to not use my desk for food prep lol

[ieatinmycar No.16615706]

>>16607115
That looks like an entirely useable kitchen, I've seen worse.
Yes, I've made renting decisions based on how convenient the kitchen was.

[Anonymous No.16615882]

>>16612143
most people in densely populated places like Tokyo, China, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong etc yeah.
This is what the main room looks like.
Not much, but it works.
The space above the cupboards on the right is a raised space where you sleep.
Sometimes they have an actual ladder leading to a capsule-hotel-style loft above the kitchen to sleep in instead.

It's not much, but it's your own 1 room apartment for $600/mo. $50/mo for utilities and free gigabit fiber internet.
In the West you'll easily pay $250/week to have a bedroom in a share house that's 20min walk from anything. Let alone good luck finding your own apartment that cheap.

[Anonymous No.16615891]

>>16615882
forgot pic cuz alcohol lmao

[Anonymous No.16616886]

I lived in a hotel room with this kitchen for over a year. I don't recommend it. I decided I was going to cook thanksgiving dinner for myself and ended up using the dishwasher on heat dry to keep stuff warm.

[Anonymous No.16618632]

>>16616886
That actually seems pretty comfy (besides the lack of oven).

[Anonymous No.16619497]

>>16618632
it was annoying because the stove had an auto shut off timer so if you were making a stew or something you had to keep resetting it every 30 minutes.

[Anonymous No.16619892]

>>16607282
>that kitchen
>small
fuck you, also get better taste in vodka, absolut tastes like desinfectant

[Anonymous No.16619971]

>>16616886
that kitchen is a bit silly. Why is there a drawer handle on wood in front of the sink that is clearly not a drawer?

[Anonymous No.16620127]

>>16619971
To hang a dish cloth on it?

[Anonymous No.16620177]

>>16619892
it’s vodka you retard. It’s basically ethanol and water, of course it tastes like disinfectant. If it had flavor it wouldn’t be vodka, it would be gin.

[Anonymous No.16620265]

>>16612036
>>16612186
Where the hell do you live? I'm in Copenhagen paying €1500 and have a great place

[Anonymous No.16620284]

>>16620177
There are much better pure vodkas, or if you have a va-jay-jay, there are many flavored vodkas.

[Anonymous No.16620292]

>>16620265
To be fair, I'm in an older building with a 760sqft 1 bedroom in Minneapolis for $1000/m, but even that's $240 more than when I moved in 9 years ago. There's a ton of new construction, but it's all shitty 3-5 over 1* buildings being marketed as luxury places at $1600+ for a 500sqft Studios or income-restricted housing to get that Section 8 money. But there was also a huge gap period where nothing was being built so there's no middle ground that's making older stuff get lower prices.

*3-5 floors of stick frame over a concrete first floor

[Anonymous No.16620317]

>>16607115
I kinda already do. It's almost complete but i can't fit a dishwasher here unfortunately.
Can do with one extra square of prepping room too.

[Anonymous No.16620341]

>>16607115
>Could you live with a small kitchen?
I kitchen'd on my covered patio for like 7 months during a lengthy kitchen remodel, doing the microwave, BBQ grill, outdoor kitchen area, and mini fridge. Garden hose to wash dishes for about a month of it. It was hell, and even then, I could eat out or do takeout at whim, since there was no pandemic.
Little kitchens are alright for those eating out a great deal, but you have to have a big fridge or go insane.
My sister rented a 1/1 during medical school in DC, where a lot of apartments are military era styled with tiny closets for a handful of outfits. Whoever leased it had remodeled a long linen closet into a basic kitchen along a wall, but it had smart design, with a deep farmsink, full dishwasher, extra deep thomasville cabinets top and bottom, and high end fridge. If no one was a cheapass, you can do small really well. It was quite gourmet really, even had good countertop space. She added a high top table for the dining area to increase that countertop area.

[Anonymous No.16620357]

>>16615204
bump

[Anonymous No.16620367]

>>16614473
Are you in Japan or something?

[Anonymous No.16620402]

>>16620177
there are many pure vodkas that don't taste like medical supplies, stolichnaya, russian standard within the budget range for example.

[Anonymous No.16620433]

I am so triggered by most apartment kitchens in my country. Dumbfuck landlords get them renovated and have no idea what they are doing:

>no dishwasher slot
>tiny sink
>cabinets are poorly placed
>cheapskate fridge with a tiny freezer compartment
>terrible stoves with terrible ovens
>LOUD stove fan
>garbage materials that look like ass in 5 years
>flimsy compartmentalized trash bag holders
>the cheapest kitchen appliances you can find because appliances that are pleasant to use and actually last for decades cost 20%-30% more
>overpriced fluorescent lamps instead of cheap and reliable LED strips because they are mentally stuck in the 70's
>two electrical sockets AT MAXIMUM

fucking boomers

[Anonymous No.16620620]

>>16614587
freshly sliced deli meat tastes way better, too

[Anonymous No.16620640]

>>16614478
he probably means the space taken up by your spices and ingredients, looks good to me, it's all organized and it looks like you know what youre doing

[Anonymous No.16620644]

>>16607136
>perfect for two people to cook together
Absolute fucking cope. It's insufferably small. My kitchen is the same size

[Anonymous No.16620670]

I can live with a bathroom sink and a hot plate, I think I could live with a small kitchen.
Do I want to? No.

[Anonymous No.16620702]

>>16620433
New rules in the electrical code say no more two gang GFCI plugs in the kitchen. So say goodbye to these in future buildings.

[Anonymous No.16621374]

>>16608414
This honestly looks like my kitchen minus the window. Bought a baker's rack for my skillets/baking pans which is kept in another room, and then keep my big utensil cup on the stovetop to save space.

[Anonymous No.16621990]

>>16613917
>the sink is even sideways

holy heck

[Anonymous No.16622907]

>>16608381
they won in 08 and almost in 09 you retard

[Anonymous No.16623176]

>>16607115
pic unrelated? i'd kill to have a kitchen like that
t. poor yuropoor

[Anonymous No.16624216]

>>16620644
Post weight, fuckin fatso. OP's kitchen is incredibly efficient for two people.

[Anonymous No.16624220]

>>16607115
Bitch that's three times my kitchen. Ofc I could, though God knows I'd prefer a biggee one

[Anonymous No.16624235]

>>16613917
I fantasize about having something like this sometimes. Call me crazy. I think it's adorable. I couldn't do it forever but I'd like to make it work.

[Anonymous No.16624243]

>>16607115
i already do, sadly

[Anonymous No.16624253]

>>16607115
I have a kitchen around that size. I'd maybe like a bit more table top space but other than that it's fine for one person.

[Anonymous No.16624766]

>>16624216
Yeah if you want to constantly be walking around each other to get to the garbage can and bumping shoulders. You're coping

[Anonymous No.16624777]

>>16624766
sounds like you need to spend a little less time in the kitchen and more in the gym

[Anonymous No.16624783]

>>16624777
I have had many fights with my boyfriend over how small our kitchen is, it's fucking irritating the way he is constantly in my way. It's easier to blame the kitchen than to blame him for being a blundering fool that doesn't know how to get out of my fucking way. Like I'll have a pot of hot noodles I need to drain in the sink and I'm walking towards it and he'll step right in my path and almost make me drop it

[Anonymous No.16624966]

Since we’re posting kitchens

[Anonymous No.16625063]

>>16624783
So you're fat and apparently currently angry right now that you aren't eating in your small kitchen.

[Anonymous No.16625072]

>>16624966
Why is washer right in the kitchen? Is this some yuropoor thing?

[Anonymous No.16625085]

>>16625072

It's how they wash their food

[Anonymous No.16625096]

>>16625085
lmao fuckin yuros

[Anonymous No.16625220]

>>16625063
>eating
>IN the small kitchen
Are you retarded?

[Anonymous No.16625273]

>>16625220
cope

[Anonymous No.16625455]

>>16625072
>no dryer
does the stove double-duty as the dryer? just hang clothes all over it & leave the door & stovetop lit?

[Anonymous No.16625471]

>>16625455
most yuropeans have washer-dryer combos to save space

[Anonymous No.16625720]

>>16625072
all apartments ive ever seen here have the washer in the kitchen
>>16625455
i have a heat pump ventless dryer in my balcony
>>16625471
ive never seen anyone have a combo. most people here just put their clothes on a drying line and actively laugh at people using dryers, usually the same way they laugh at people who use AC. I suspect they just make fun of what they cant afford

[Anonymous No.16625788]

>>16607282
now thats just showing off, dont be a cunt