Holy crap. The Bozeman house really resembles the clubhouse of the Divide Ranch and Club, which is about five minutes from my house. Don't ya think?
Amy
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| Author: | Darcie [ Tue Dec 31, 2013 12:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Homes for Amateur Chefs |
One of those terrible articles that I clicked on anyway, and now I feel compelled to subject you to it: Six Homes for Amateur Chefs. Honestly, I wasn't impressed with these kitchens. And I really don't need a built-in aquarium (although I guess the fish could be really fresh). |
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| Author: | TheFuzzy [ Tue Dec 31, 2013 11:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Homes for Amateur Chefs |
Darcie, Sushi! Seriously, what's with the kitchens with 1000sqft of real estate and kitchen islands the size of small yachts? I thought people had figured out by now how fatiguing that is. These mostly look like houses for people who don't cook, but like to serve a lot of drinks in the kitchen. On the other hand, Dallas and Los Angeles look like they might be serious cooks. At least, Los Angeles raided a professional kitchen surplus store. Bozeman, MT's owner watched Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers a few too many times. |
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| Author: | JesBelle [ Wed Jan 01, 2014 8:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Homes for Amateur Chefs |
I predict that the next trend in high-end kitchens will be giant gleaming slabs of polished stone where no-one uses anything but the Keurig and the microwave...and the real kitchen in the basement, where the only decorations are the genuine Downton Abbey reproduction summoning bells. |
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| Author: | Linda [ Wed Jan 01, 2014 9:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Homes for Amateur Chefs |
Impractical for most but they sure are lovely to look at. |
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| Author: | Amy [ Wed Jan 01, 2014 9:37 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Homes for Amateur Chefs |
Holy crap. The Bozeman house really resembles the clubhouse of the Divide Ranch and Club, which is about five minutes from my house. Don't ya think? Amy |
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| Author: | Lindsay [ Wed Jan 01, 2014 10:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Homes for Amateur Chefs |
This reminds me of the time when I was doing some personal catering, and I was at a house that had a spectacularly redone kitchen, making osso buco. It was only when I started browning the veal that I realized there was no vent, and the burners were on an island in the middle of the kitchen. And it was February so opening all the doors and windows in the house trying to create a through breeze wouldn't work. Sure enough, the smoke alarm went off, which was wired to the fire station. The firemen showed up and we got the smoke down - the situation was helped by the fact that I had made a lot of chocolate truffles which I shared liberally with them. But the thing that really stuck with me is that they told me how often they were being called out because so many of these high-end kitchens were being redone without vents. Apparently, they aren't really designed to be cooked in, just admired. |
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| Author: | Amy [ Wed Jan 01, 2014 10:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Homes for Amateur Chefs |
Lindsay, My event last night was in a high-end home, and it's an open kitchen. The hood has one speed: ON. I couldn't turn it on during the cocktail hour because it's too loud, so I had to suffer through the grease and smoke until they went downstairs for dinner. No smoke alarms, no firemen, but frustrating and annoying nonetheless. I can only imagine the panic you must have felt. Thank God for chocolate (and, I assume, a fair amount of booze). Amy |
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| Author: | TheFuzzy [ Wed Jan 01, 2014 12:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Homes for Amateur Chefs |
Amy, I wonder if they hired the same architect? Certainly looks like it. Lindsay, Regarding the lack of vents ... my in-laws have a stove island/bar which has a "pop-up" vent built into the back of the stove (I have no idea where it exhausts). It doesn't work, of course; on low it doesn't suck anything up since it's to the side of the stove, and on high it sucks out the flames on the stove. So sometimes the vent thing is the result of trusting your kitchen contractor/supplier too much. |
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| Author: | Cubangirl [ Wed Jan 01, 2014 7:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Homes for Amateur Chefs |
Josh, my JennAir is on the leg of the rectangle that is open to the family room. It has a downdraft vent. When done right it works. I used to grill hamburgers on the grill module when the kids were little without smoking the house. The only time I've had problems is when I've left a popcorn pot on the stove with two kernels waiting to pop and forgotten about it. I don't think a hood would have helped 
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| Author: | talanhart [ Thu Jan 02, 2014 7:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Homes for Amateur Chefs |
I always look at the floors. It looks like three of the kitchens do have Wood floors and not stone or tile. |
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