When you are refurbishing your kitchen, it’s important to look beyond aesthetics. Do you know what could be one of the most significant threats to your family’s health and comfort? Access to clean water. Daily doses of clean, pure H2O are essential for hydrating ourselves and flushing toxins from our bodies. Children are especially susceptible to waterborne illness and parasites, as well as to lead and chemicals that may be in our water supplies. Chlorine, the very agent that is used to purify our water, has been linked to learning disabilities in children. Asthma and other illnesses have also been associated with waterborne chemicals and pollutants.Read more...
People have all kinds of theories on what dining should be. Some individuals prefer to dine on the run, and aren’t particular about what they eat, where they eat, or even how the food tastes. To them, eating is merely a necessary fact of life, a biological requirement.
Others enjoy taking the time and effort either to prepare or seek out gourmet-style meals. Good meals to them are to be slowly savored in the company of others, in carefully structured atmospheres at home or in fine restaurants.Read more...
The overall size of your kitchen should depend on the following points:
1. The size of your family and the number of individuals in your family who like to cook. Usually, the bigger the family, the bigger the kitchen. And don’t exclude the children. Psychologists say that youngsters, especially teenagers, should be encouraged to learn how to cook, and that culinary creativity helps a child’s overalldevelopment.
2. Do family members and many friends and guests tend to congregate in the kitchen? Then make the kitchen large enough to accommodate plenty of seating space.
3. Do you approve of or insist upon having meals other than breakfast in the kitchen? If you prefer nightly suppers in the kitchen, then you’d better plan an eat-in kitchen arrangement, with space for a table and chairs. If only breakfast will be served there, then a bar at which three or four people can comfortably sit is likely to be all the eating space you’ll need.Read more...
For the bachelor who scratches his head in bewilderment while attempting to boil water for instant coffee, a kitchen complete with the appliances of his dreams might consist of a frost-free refrigerator, a microwave oven, a double-slotted toaster, and the plainest of sinks.
Others, individuals who fancy themselves a step or two below award-winning French chefs, need wide expanses of counter space, double ovens, microwaves, electric grills and barbecues, three-tubbed stainless steel sinks, boxes of hand appliances, and piles of pots, pans, and multipurpose utensils.Read more...