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This page is the first major area of the website. It describes our incredible kitchen renovation. What we'll talk about
here are the components of the kitchen, how it ended up, and how it functions.
For the time being, here's what's going on at Heck's Kitchen:
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 kept by Randy. Go to the
KrisBlog for project management details.
Current Status
The dumpster is currently being filled with cabinets and tiles.
Renovation Elapsed Time:
- The oven is officially busted. The control circuit that runs the broiler
died two weeks into our owning the property. Imagine that. It may have been
the self-cleaning cycle that killed it. We have a temperature sensor that is
so far out of calibration it's dangerous. An essential piece of equipment in
a kitchen, that you really don't want to have but have to have is an oven
thermometer. Get one that hangs on a rack inside the oven, but don't hang it
too close to an element.
- The fridge is on a frost-defrost loop. I'm pretty sure that it's a lack
of Freon, but I'm not spending anything on a fridge that has to last another
eight weeks.
- The stove top. Now here's a wonder of engineering. The front two
elements have temperature sensors, so you can exactly control the element.
When the original owners put it in, It seemed like a good idea at the time.
But then, so did human sacrifice. Some older, and very expensive, frying
pans have a slight upward indent. I can only assume that that is to
distribute the heat from a gas stove. Unfortunately, this leaves a gap
between the temperature sensor and the pan. Oops. Now the stove gets
confused and Kris gets really upset. You can guess where this is going.
- The microwave/vent hood combination is now a clock. An expensive kitchen
timer. Now, if it only could run multiple clocks at once, it might have some
utility. On a 4" pipe, with almost no suction, it's hardly worth the
trouble.
Even for me, there's way too much restaurant eating time. The pubs have been
getting a lot of our business lately.
Here's what the kitchen looked like just prior to demolition. It doesn't look so bad, does it?
Try working in it. Remember, virtually nothing works properly. We even had to
bring in a second microwave (right side, east view) and a toaster oven (centre,
northeast view).
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