Andy wrote:

> I've watched a lot of food-tv cooking shows. Most of them (not all) use
> island cooktop stoves combined with food prep areas.
>
> What I like about that design is that people can work at the island from
> all sides and not crowd each other. but it dawned on me (v-8 headslap)
> that you'd need one hellova huge kitchen space to have that. More
> specifically a more "square-ish" space so people traffic around the
> island isn't "single-file".
>
> Food-TV-Reality sucks, sometimes!
>
> Andy
> Who'd be a much better cook in a food-tv kitchen.

It's more to do with being able to see the cook and what he or she is
doing than convience. DD has a kitchen with a large island with plenty
of space around it. I like it but could never have one in our kitchen
without adding onto the house. My kitchen is kitchen only, not an
eat-in kitchen.