KITCHEN SINKS
4 August 2008
“Sink of the Possibilities”
Well, OK, if it’s a weekday I must be writing about kitchens and bathrooms again. And today we are going to discuss sinks. Again. Whoopee, right? When I first got talked into this by my partner, th
at was my thought. How many ways can anyone talk about a sink, for Heaven’s sake! Well, as it turns out, there are a lot of ways to talk about such mundane items because there are so many people out there who are working very hard to make the mundane spectacular. And I know what you’re thinking. Spectacular kitchen sink just has to be an oxymoron. Well, that depends on how you choose to look at it. Myself, I’ve always loved kitchens and have spent a lot of time in them over the years (cooking four years professionally), and the result of that is that I have a very good understanding of how a kitchen should be laid out and how the component parts come together.
I don’t think I have ever worked in a well-designed kitchen, but the thought of that—the holy grail of it, if you will—is what keeps me working on these blogs, looking for ideas for our readers and for the kitchen I have yet to make for us (you can check out our kitchen’s present layout on Thinking About It). And sinks, believe it or not, can very much be part of a good kitchen design, simply because of what they necessarily add to a kitchen. Or, in the case of those who don’t give that matter as much thought as they might hav
e, a poor choice for a sink can take away quite a bit from the workability of a kitchen. And, face it, if a kitchen does not work well, it really does not matter how much “wow” the kitchen design has.
With that in mind, I would like to introduce you to a couple of concepts I really like from Kohler, the first of which is for those of you lucky enough to have an island counter for a food preparation center. The Crevasse Prep Sink by Kohler is the only sink I ever saw in my life that actually has push buttons to activate the water! You push one button for a quick rinse of the sink and the other when you want to give the sink a complete washing and turn on the garbage disposal! Coupled with the chopping block they’ve pictured here—and will sell you for a nominal fee—you’re pretty much set for that particular chore. They even include a flashing blue light to let you know when the unit is in operation! And I’m told that they have figured out a way to ensure that the buttons are only
activated when a person touches them. Bumping the buttons with a pan does nothing.
The other items that particularly caught my eye were the new Kohler 8 Degree Stainless Steel Sink and the Kohler Karbon Articulating Kitchen Faucet. The 8 Degree Sink comes in both a double basin sink and a single sink, and both of them accommodate a rack that has been specially designed for those who would like to wash wine glasses and leave them to air dry out of sight in the sink. The articulating kitchen faucet really doesn’t need me to describe its advantages because of these pictures, but I can’t help thinking that this sort of thing, along with a single basin sink, would be just the thing for me when I’m cleaning the pots and pans at Thanksgiving. There’ll only “just sinks” until you use them. Then, if they’re well-designed, they’re a God send.
Joseph
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