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Now the research has come up to the overhead kitchen pot rack.
The house plans call for one to be over the island but I have tell my builder what kind.
This was the first one that came up in my looking and I'm practically stunned. I was picturing something like a square piece of iron but this seems ideal, especially with the ladles and big spoons hanging from it.
My stove top cooking right now consists of a big wok pan, two small woks, a circular frying pan that mostly serves as a top to to the big wok, a big pot for boiling water, a griddle currently used for pan cakes, a stop top percolator, a whistling tea pot, (these are in the most active use), then a fish poacher, then an assortment of pots and pans from two different sets probably numbering around 8. The wire rack inside the circular rack is a nice addition since my big water boiling pot doesn't have anything to hang by. If it went up on the rack, it would have to sit there.
I suppose one of the questions of the clueless naive is how much does one pot cook in order to determine how big the overhead rack should be. For me, that is 99.9% everyday.
The wire rack inside the circular rack is a nice addition since my big water boiling pot doesn't have anything to hang by. If it went up on the rack, it would have to sit there.
The middle rack is generally not used to hold items in the way you are describing, it's too high to easily access as the height is intended to make sure things hanging down from the rack aren't low enough to hit you in the head or block your access to the cooktop or countertop the pot rack hangs over.
The other issue is whether you will have a cook top in the island? If you do, the items hanging over it often get dirty and greasy from the cooking and anything not used regularly gets dusty.
Personally, if I were building from scratch and had the room, I'd put in deep drawers in the island for pot storage and use a wall hung rack rather than a ceiling rack.
.......The other issue is whether you will have a cook top in the island? If you do, the items hanging over it often get dirty and greasy from the cooking and anything not used regularly gets dusty.......
Really I forgo the rack myself, instead insult a sweet lighting feature that makes a statement and adds value and extra lighting overhead. Because pots and pans hanging in the air trend to cheapening, and when you walk into the room it's like an elephant, all eye go to it! Just my two cents...
Now the research has come up to the overhead kitchen pot rack.
The house plans call for one to be over the island but I have tell my builder what kind.
This was the first one that came up in my looking and I'm practically stunned. I was picturing something like a square piece of iron but this seems ideal, especially with the ladles and big spoons hanging from it.
My stove top cooking right now consists of a big wok pan, two small woks, a circular frying pan that mostly serves as a top to to the big wok, a big pot for boiling water, a griddle currently used for pan cakes, a stop top percolator, a whistling tea pot, (these are in the most active use), then a fish poacher, then an assortment of pots and pans from two different sets probably numbering around 8. The wire rack inside the circular rack is a nice addition since my big water boiling pot doesn't have anything to hang by. If it went up on the rack, it would have to sit there.
I suppose one of the questions of the clueless naive is how much does one pot cook in order to determine how big the overhead rack should be. For me, that is 99.9% everyday.
if you have an overhead pot rack make sure your pot are pretty! I would set the pots down in two rows, mesure the area they take up and buy one you like that hold that dimension.
Here's one with a place on top to sit large pots, and it has an integrated light. I like the look of it better than the one linked to in the first post, but that's just my taste.
You need to measure your island first so that you can find the right size. You don't want one that's overwhelming or one that looks too dinky.
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