Hello Group!!

I was wondering if anyone's ever heard of the kitchen designer Stephen
Rabinowitz?? I was looking on eBay for something to give my husband
who is a chef and wants to get our home kitchen redone. He always
talks about how kitchens are poorly designed and how you can't just
have Home Depot design your kitchen on a computer and expect to get a
well thought-out design....

It's here on this , but I am skeptical to bid. Although at $300 for
hand-drafted design, it seems like I shoud jump on it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=23646430 64

That designer evidently designed one of Frank Sinatra's kitchens and
gives speeches about "ill conceived kitchen designs." It looks like
he will design one person's kitchen in a while as he is in his 60s now
(he studied Frank Lloyd Wright and Aero Saarinan in the 1950s and
onward at Yale I think) and has attained a level of success.

I can't afford the buy it now price, so I am thinking if i jump on it
I may get it at the opening bid. Any thoughts??

When I get a decent job (i.e. paying more than $19,000 a year which is
what I make in the military) and can buy a house, my kitchen will be
done like a commercial kitchen -- commercial stove, stainless steel
everything, etc.

--
John Gaughan
http://www.johngaughan.net/

I hear you. So much easier to clean up for one thing..

John Gaughan wrote in message ...
>When I get a decent job (i.e. paying more than $19,000 a year which is
>what I make in the military) and can buy a house, my kitchen will be
>done like a commercial kitchen -- commercial stove, stainless steel
>everything, etc.
>
>--
>John Gaughan
>http://www.johngaughan.net/

>

"John D. Misrahi" writes:
>
>John Gaughan wrote in message ...
>>When I get a decent job (i.e. paying more than $19,000 a year which is
>>what I make in the military) and can buy a house, my kitchen will be
>>done like a commercial kitchen -- commercial stove, stainless steel
>>everything, etc.
>
>So much easier to clean up for one thing..

Not really... stainless steel is a bitch to keep looking clean, streak free,
and fingerprint free... stainless steel is unforgiving, every speck shows like
10X actual size. I suppose though for someone who doesn't cook much, if at
all, and can afford a cleaning servant, then the commercial kitchen look can
make one appear the culinary maven - not - um, while you're at it don't skimp
on strewing the All-Crap cookware about. Can always tell the food frauds, they
somehow think professional cooks do janitorial duty.


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PENMART01 wrote:
> Not really... stainless steel is a bitch to keep looking clean,
> streak free, and fingerprint free... stainless steel is unforgiving,
> every speck shows like 10X actual size.

I want all stainless because it functions well, is very durable, and
simple. As long as it is "clean enough" I am happy. It does not need to
be polished.

--
John Gaughan
http://www.johngaughan.net/

"John Gaughan" wrote in message ...
> PENMART01 wrote:
> > Not really... stainless steel is a bitch to keep looking clean,
> > streak free, and fingerprint free... stainless steel is unforgiving,
> > every speck shows like 10X actual size.
>
> I want all stainless because it functions well, is very durable, and
> simple. As long as it is "clean enough" I am happy. It does not need to
> be polished.
>

I've got stainless counters and I don't really find them all that difficult
to keep clean. I do have a work table in my kitchen where I do almost all of
my food prep so the counters don't get all that much of a work out. The
toughest work cleaning is just right around the sink and stove of course.

-Mike

In article >, John Gaughan
> writes:

>PENMART01 wrote:
>> Not really... stainless steel is a bitch to keep looking clean,
>> streak free, and fingerprint free... stainless steel is unforgiving,
>> every speck shows like 10X actual size.
>
>I want all stainless because it functions well, is very durable, and
>simple. As long as it is "clean enough" I am happy. It does not need to
>be polished.

You omited the post from the person I responded to... that's what makes you a
sleaze bag.


---= BOYCOTT FRENCH--GERMAN (belgium) =---
---= Move UNITED NATIONS To Paris =---
Sheldon
````````````
"Life would be devoid of all meaning were it without tribulation."

Michelle wrote:

> Hello Group!!
>
> I was wondering if anyone's ever heard of the kitchen designer Stephen
> Rabinowitz?? I was looking on eBay for something to give my husband
> who is a chef and wants to get our home kitchen redone. He always
> talks about how kitchens are poorly designed and how you can't just
> have Home Depot design your kitchen on a computer and expect to get a
> well thought-out design....
>

Take a look at a book called "Great Kitchens: Design Ideas from America's
Top Chefs", which features the home kitchens of several chefs including
Rick Bayless, Tom Douglas, and Alice Waters.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books


---jkb

--
"The kitchen staff is complaining of rats in the kitchen.
I'd like to hire a new staff."
-- Lunchlady Doris