A Kitchen for Someone Who Actually Cooks

The kitchen it replaced had been bought as a showroom package four years earlier, and on the day it was installed it looked superb. It also had nowhere to keep a wet grinder, counters too shallow to work a dosa tawa and a full vessel side by side, and an extractor rated for a kitchen where nobody fries anything.

This one is built around what gets cooked in it. Deeper counters at the working end, a wet zone with its own drainage and a ventilated bay the grinder lives in permanently rather than being lifted out, drawer stacks sized to the actual vessels instead of to a catalogue, and extraction specified for tempering rather than for toast. It photographs less well. It works considerably better.