Three recent introductions to the Kohler lineup are particular standouts to us. One's a kitchen sink, one's for utility, and one's designed especially for food prep...
The Indio kitchen sink (at top) is an undermount with a pretty sleek design. It is a simple, single basin with a side deck for mounting the kitchen faucet (the Karbon articulating faucet is shown here).
The Tandem utility sink is made of cast iron. It has a wide deck so water can be splashed around without getting all over the place. The sink also comes with a top, allowing the sink top to be used as a work surface.
The Crevasse prep sink is probably our favorite out of these three. It's a long, skinny stainless steel sink that leads directly to a garbage disposal. A push-button lets you rinse food prep waste directly down the trough and into the garbage disposal.
Read more on these three sinks and other new Kohler products here.
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Comments (16)
Beautiful. I love the trough sink. I just wish I had room for it...
I didn't want to be the one to say that the first sink is very vagina'esque, but...well, there it is.
The Indio is very nice. The Tandem... I don't know.
The Crevasse is a complete water waster. Good lord.
Agreed on the Crevasse. Great looking and functional but garbage disposal? Composting has gone mainstream. Let's get on board and save the water.
i agree with everyone on the Crevasse. like really, who is throwing away all those perfect scraps.
I, too, agree re: Crevasse. I think AT should agressively filter out products that do not take us in a "greener" direction.
I like the Indio, the faucet looks sort of animated like it was Pixar inspired. And enough said on the Crevasse... seems everyone is in agreement.
more ridiculously overpriced, behind-the-curve products from Kohler. snooze.
I do love the articluating facuet, but again...already been done (better IMO) by other mfgrs.
Perhaps if the Crevasse fed directly into a grey-water retention system so that the nutrients could be used to water plants, I'd be impressed....
...but otherwise, who needs a specific sink just for grinding up food scraps?
"I didn't want to be the one to say that the first sink is very vagina'esque, but...well, there it is."
If that's what they look like - Thank God I'm Gay!
;-)
*blushing!* - speakaboo is right!
Hey, this is Adam Horwitz, Kohler director of Kitchen product marketing. I noticed the conversation about the Crevasse sink and thought I’d add my two cents. When we designed the Crevasse sink, we included two rinse options, one of short bursts, for quick rinsing, and one traditional flow that activates the garbage disposal. In our research of kitchen use, we noticed that people tend to leave the faucet running while using the garbage disposal. We applied a timed rinse with the Crevasse to cut down on this water wasting.
As for disposals versus composting, check out this research from the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewarage District (MMSD) http://v3.mmsd.com/NewsDetails.aspx - they found that food waste feeds the microscopic organisms that get turned into Milorganite fertilizer. MMSD also uses the methane gas produced by the food waste to heat its facilities, saving both energy and money – savings which they in turn passed along to their customers! As green as composting? Maybe not, but definitely much better than sending garbage to a landfill.
I was going to rant about Adam Horwitz and his nice job of greenwashing the Crevasse, but lets face it who would be dumb enough to use the Crevasse more than once. Oh except when they invite their poser "foodie" friends over to watch water run down their expensive one trick pony. People are not buying the crevasse for prep cooking. Their buying it to make up for their insecurities in the kitchen. Think of it and all its other useless kitchen tool cousins as the Hummers of the cooking world.
Kohler had one of the best line-ups of new products at the Kitchen/Bath Industry Show that ended on Sunday. (Too many exhibitors showed little to no new product, which made the Wisconsin wizards stand out that much more.)
Much of what I liked from Kohler is bath-related, but the Stages kitchen series is worth considering, especially for an in-law kitchen or island. Here are my favorite kitchen picks from KBIS this year:
http://jgkitchens.blogspot.com/2009/05/kbis-2009-kitchen-spotlight.html
I just purchased one for my kitchen. Besides the "cool factor" I am going to use it to put ice in for parties and did not want a large faucet sticking out from my kitchen island.
Such haters here... The sink is cool.. admit it - you want one! :)
I don't get it. This sink fills your garbage disposal unit with scraps and a lot of water? Doesn't this mean you'll have a giant container of sludge in the end? I never pour liquids into a garbage. Is there no drain into the sewage system, it just drains into the garbage disposal?