This station is all about food prep. The Waterstation by KWC is a cylindrical, stainless steel sink station. It has several separate compartments and a central water source. Cutting boards and drain boards are supplied that fit into the sink openings. And bowls are inset into the countertop for holding prepped food.
It looks handy, sure. But what's the use for such a station in a residential kitchen? While it does look very attractive, and we can only imagine the ease with which we'd be able to prep food at one of these babies, it seems unnecessary unless used in commerial kitchens. This is really just a heck of a large sink when you strip it down to its essence. Anyone else?
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I grew up in a big house with a kitchen my entire former 500 sf manhattan apt would fit into, with room to spare. In my late teens, I was an au pair in a chalet in the French alps which had a galley kitchen (summers, they sailed, also had a great house built on a Roman foundation at the cote d'azur) I learned in the chalet's kitchen, which is virtually the kitchen I have now (even the pass-through is in the same place) that I think and cook more calmly and efficiently in a smaller space. The huge kitchen of my childhood had so much counter space that you just moved from one mess to the next, running from mess to mess, creating a super confusing mess in the process) - so to me this stainles work station looks silly, rigid and in the way. It reminds me of teh fixin's bar at thruway stops. I think it was Maxwell who said the important triangle between fridge, stove and sink defines a good kitchen and to that i say amen! I also have stuff hanging off the walls that would probably make a lot of people's skin crawl, and it has cheap looking cupboards and fake butcher-block counters but i love cooking there. It feels like an artist's workshop.
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