If you look in architectural magazines or cooking magazines, kitchens have become enormous, high-tech wonders; ads show monster appliances, triple ovens and fridges big enough to park a cow in. I will admit to having been drawn into big kitchen lust — taken in by kitchen porn. I spent quite a bit of time complaining about how small my kitchen was in our last house.
Now that we are living in a smallish apartment, and moving to an even smaller one this summer, kitchen porn looks odd to me now. I cook as much or more than I did before, and other than not being able to have people loitering in the kitchen (which is open to the living room), it doesn’t really matter.
Our refrigerator is smaller as well, though not as small as it could be. We don’t really use all of the space in it as is, which is another oddity since we had an enormous 25cu ft model in the States that was always full.
I think that the catalyst for this change has been that since we moved to London, I have become far more committed to fresh, seasonal, local food, and you simply don’t need a big fridge when you are committed to fresh and seasonal. When your shopping and cooking responds to the marketplace, the baker, vegetable store and neighbourhood vendor, storage space, both refrigerated and non-, shrinks drastically.
Tags: cooking, Eating, unnecessary, Unnecessary Things
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You know Jon that the other day on a morning local news show there was a segment called killer kitchens. The phrase was interestingly enough repeated three times and ended on that note. This “killer kitchen” had four refrigerators, five ovens, a microwave, a warming drawer, two dishwashers and a trash compactor all in a residential kitchen.
I would definitely sentence that kitchen death.
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