The kitchen continues, and it's hard to remember what we've done since I last posted about it. I do know that Miss Teen comes most weeks, and every time she comes we have done more to the kitchen. I've been rubbish at taking photos since we put the walk in larder in, so I'm trying to remember what we've changed.
I found a well used 29cm Miele warming drawer for sale fairly locally. It's the same model as the one I already have, it's just 29cm instead of 14. I decided to buy it to see how well it worked for very low temperature cooking and proving (the 14cm one isn't tall enough to get a joint of beef in). I wasn't sure which one I was going to keep, so we installed it on top of the other one so I could try it out.
It's worked really really well. I've been able to prove dough for foccaccia, in my Remoska, in it (several times now), and we've low cooked two joints of beef. Its more noisy than the 14cm one, it's definitely very preloved.
At the moment, we've got both of them installed, and it'll stay that way until we get taller drawers for the whole housing.
I've managed to buy a few more useful units, some of which I'll wait until later to talk about (they aren't very exciting). I also picked up a bargain 900mm drawer unit, which was exactly what I needed to finish another section. Except when I got it home, it was only 800, the seller had just made a mistake. We debated about keeping it for when we do the utility room next year, but we just don't have the space.
We eventually got another 900 unit, which has now done the job. I've reluctantly sold the 800.
I've bought a better pull out bin set, but it needs a 600 unit and our current one is only 500. I'm just trying to get a unit to put it in.
Some time ago I also bought a pre-loved-but-not-used Hailo Pantry Box for a 60cm unit, as I wanted to have a drawer for bread. The seller was lovely, and agreed to post. They had a lot going on, so I knew it would take a little while. In the meantime, we'd put in a temporary solution (an 800 unit) which was working well. Apart from the bread bin. We'd tried a couple (OK, three) of bread bins and still haven't found the right answer. I no longer had room for the pantry box, and I assumed I had been scammed.
I was wrong. I had message from the seller to say that it was on its way. When it arrived, I told DH that we probably weren't going to use it now as things had moved on. However, we needed to unwrap it to make sure it was all OK, then we'd just put it in the summerhouse with all the other yet-to-be-fitted bits, and we might fit it in the utility room DH couldn't picture how it was meant to work so after unwrapping it all (it was beautifully protected), we tried it in an under-oven drawer, DH really liked it, which surprised me as he had not been on board with the whole bread drawer concept
So now we are looking for two 60 cm units. The bread unit will go where the bin unit is currently, and we'll move the bin unit next to the sink when we do that run.
Speaking of which, we've got the 2 drawer unit for the sink run (DH took the best bits from two of the units we bought originally - months ago now- and created a very robust unit). The new sink has arrived. All we need now is the replacement water softener, which we've still to make a decision on. amd then we can replace that run.
It's all a bit higgledy piggledy and mismatched and it'll continue to be so until I manage to get replacement drawer fronts (or we have all the fronts repainted. We've still got stuff everywhere, as I don't want to dump stuff in the drawers. Most of it is waiting for new wall units, and that will be months away I think.
I've been ruthlessly decluttering, selling and donating stuff I never thought I'd let go.
