[LMB] Lois-Bujold Digest, Vol 28, Issue 49

[Katrina Allis]

Lestyn"
> >
> >The cookbooks go in the cabinet above the stove. If
> >the oven is on it gets too hot for food to keep well
> >(unless your oven vents differently than most) and
> >it is usually too shallow for pots and pans.
> >Cookbooks work well there. YMMV.
> I'll say. I don't think I've ever seen a kitchen with cupboards
> beneath the oven. A warming draw or a pot storer of a foot high
> possibly, built into the oven, but running all the way to the floor.
>

If you've got a wall oven, which are becoming increasingly popular here in
NZ, it's possible to have a storage drawer below the oven; the kitchen in
the house I grew up in had the baking trays and cake tins and stuff like
that stored in a deep drawer beneath it. The microwave was above it and the
hobs on the other side of the kitchen.

Should I ever get to build my own kitchen, there is going to be a wall oven
and benchtop hobs.  It's great because you never have to pull out the oven
to clean underneath and you can't drop food in the crack between the oven
and the bench...

We scrubbed our kitchen floor recently, including beneath the fridge, dryer
and oven.  Under the oven was absolutely disgusting.

Katrina
-- 
I have CDO.  It's like Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, only in alphabetical
order as it should be.

Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was
putting one foot in front of the other.  Moving all the same.
Lois McMaster Bujold, _Curse of Chalion_