<p>Another vote for Stainless Steel. We have had enamel and Corian in previous lives, but I am completely sold on Stainless. We’ve got an undermount triple sink…Big, 11" deep left side, shallower narrow middle (with garbage disposal) and probably 9" deep right side sink. Recently I stayed at my mother’s house for 3 weeks. She has got the most shallow sink that they make, I think. It drove me crazy.</p>
<p>Anxiousmom, I have to admit that I’m a bit jealous! I’m a sucker for counter space, though, so I’m not sure I’d be willing to give up that much of my kitchen for a sink!</p>
<p>I had bad luck with an expensive Grohe kitchen faucet too–it rusted out. I’ve have two deep single-bowl stainless steel sinks. One in the pantry and one in the main kitchen (this one is probably the size of a double sink and its a Franke). I love it. In my old house, I had a double-bowl kitchen sink with a porcelain glaze. I was really careful and even then, I had a few scratches in it. I think the stainless steel is more forgiving than the porcelain when it comes to breaking glasses or dishes. I never had a Corian sink, but I did have Corian counters that looked really nice in my old kitchen. I had a baby sitter who put a hot pot (after heating milk for hot chocolate) on the Corian and it left a deep a black ring, which I was never able to remove. I ended up having to replace the counter because it looked so bad.</p>
<p>I think Corian has been reformulated. Today’s Corian is much sturdier and prettier than the old stuff. The nice thing about Corian is that is is very easily repairable. I have sanded some scratches off of my counters, and when someone accidentally chipped the sink by dropping a tool that absolutely did not belong in the kitchen :rolleyes: into it, I called a Corian repair guy, and the fix was painless and amazing: the guy cut a circle out of the sink, cut a circle out of the matching Corian material, glued the circle back in with a special glue, sanded the thing, and I can’t even tell if the sink has been repaired! My next kitchen (if any) will have a Corian sink. My faucet is a Moen and does a nice job, but it has been repaired once by hubby, so I’m not sure if I’m wild about this brand.</p>
<p>We have the one Shrinkwrap mentions above. Very pleased with the design. I despised our other divided sink (same size bowls, high divide) and insisted I’d never have one again, but this one is great. It fits everything. You get the best of both worlds.</p>
<p>We did get cast iron. No scratching yet, but I will watch for it.</p>
<p>I think our Grohe faucets were about 70$ each (but bought 10 years ago!), and the wall-mounted kitchen faucet was about $100. It doesn’t have the fancy pull-out spray options - it’s just a faucet.
I’m pretty sure that the “working” parts are solid brass and ceramic, so those shouldn’t rust. The external “showy” parts are replaceable. (We swapped out our spout in the kitchen faucet from a really long straight one, to a higher arc…) Well, I hope that our Grohe’s last another ten years… <em>knocks on wood</em></p>
<p>I’m the odd man out. we remodeled our kitchen a few years, just as butler sinks were coming into popularity, and we have a big single fireclay sink. I love it, although it was completely mounted properly (the cabinets swelled after the sink was fitted. It does chip when DH throws the pots into it (which makes me really mad), but you can put anything into it and can bathe a toddler. I use a dishpan in the sink. I hated the way our stainless sink never looked clean.</p>
<p>I’m wondering if the pro-stainless people are in soft water areas. I’m currently living parttime with a stainless sink in soft-water Portland, OR and I have no problem keeping it looking nice, but the stainless sink we had years ago in hard-water California always looked terrible.</p>