Planning the kitchen: five mistakes that spoil your cooking
Created: 06/30/2022Updated: 06/30/2022 09:42
By: Andrea Stettner
Anyone who loves to cook cannot avoid a well-planned kitchen.
We show which mistakes are common when setting up and designing the kitchen unit.
During his life we spend a lot of time in the kitchen - especially if you love to cook.
In order to avoid unnecessary stress, the kitchen should be optimally planned and furnished.
This works even in the smallest kitchen.
However, mistakes happen, which you should avoid as far as possible.
In a well-planned and equipped kitchen, you can cook in a relaxed manner.
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Planning a kitchen: Five mistakes that you should absolutely avoid
Too few sockets:
food processor, hand blender, refrigerator - the number of kitchen appliances is immense these days.
If you plan too few sockets, you will be more concerned with unplugging and plugging in than with the cooking itself. Or you will need an additional power strip, which is difficult to integrate into the kitchen unit.
Greetings from cable salad.
Clear advice from kitchen experts: plan for
at least 17 sockets
in the kitchen.
Work surfaces full:
the multitude of kitchen appliances
also ensures that the work surfaces get too crowded.
However, this leaves too little space for snipping and preparing.
Anyone who does not use devices such as hot air fryers, toasters and the like
on a daily basis
should store them on shelves or kitchen cupboards.
This creates space and it also looks a lot neater.
Are you struggling to keep your kitchen tidy?
Then follow our tidying tips.
Kitchen appliances incorrectly positioned:
Ovens and microwaves are often positioned in awkward places that require you to constantly bend or stretch.
If you plan your kitchen yourself, you should therefore make sure that the appliances and, of course, the power connections are placed
at the right height
.
Back pain doesn't stand a chance.
No scheduling:
If you cook pasta on the stove, you have to drain it in the sink and get the tomato paste for the sauce from the fridge.
If this process turns into a marathon, the kitchen has been planned incorrectly.
It is
best to position the cooker, sink and refrigerator in an imaginary triangle that
costs you no more than one or two steps to the other appliance.
In this way you avoid unnecessarily long distances.
Wrong light:
Anyone who has ever tried to cut an onion in low light will know that this is not a good idea.
In order for cooking to be really fun, the work surface must be perfectly illuminated.
A hanging lamp in the kitchen is not enough.
It is best to
attach light panels
directly under the kitchen cabinets.
You forget these spots all the time when cleaning
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It's not just when planning the kitchen that residents can make mistakes.
With the wrong furnishings, your own home can look really uncomfortable.
Textiles such as carpets, curtains, etc., which provide a lot of warmth, are often missing.
But bare walls also make the room look uncomfortable.
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