Madge: “You’re soaking in it.”
Man, I am showing my age here!!
It was those ducklings covered in oil that caused me to switch to Dawn. Have stayed with it ever since.
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It was a very expensive suit that was ruined by an oily food stain but then saved by Dawn that made me a complete convert.
Oh yeah. The ducklings in their commercials are so cute.
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Dawn does everything.
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I bought Dawn when the garden store said I needed to wash the leaves of my little orange tree to clean off pests. I’ve also used it on my sage plant.
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Talk about kitchen judginess … checkout this link - These Are The Worst Kitchen Trends Of All Time - Lonny
I actually do agree with many of the comments. But mainly I object to the condescending tone, probably written by designers that once advocated the design decisions. If you like your kitchen, it’s perfect. (I normally give a nod toward neutralish kitchens for resale flexibility, but in today’s hot housing market I bet anything goes).
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Colorado-mom- do you like your bar soap? Trying to get rid of all the mountains of plastic in our house too. Got a French milled ‘dish’ soap bar that’s definitely not at the same cleaning level as Dawn LOL
The worst kitchen article lost me totally when it says “move out the microwave”. The one appliance that I use multiple times per day. Obviously this person never cooked.
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Yeah, that got my attention too. We recently did a major remodel of a home we purchased in December of 2020. The one thing we couldn’t do that we wanted was to install a microwave in the cabinetry like the photo in that article. It would have just been too expensive given the existing custom cabinetry. We would have had to replace a whole wall of cabinets because they couldn’t guarantee that the new cabinetry wouldn’t look identical to the existing. So it is inside that cabinet and really still bothers DH. I don’t care-how hard is it to open a cabinet? But yeah, if starting from scratch or we thought the expense wasn’t crazy, we would definitely have installed it where it’s visible and easily accessible.
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I think that kitchen trends depend on the style and time period of your house. Our neighborhood is all 120+ year old houses. Lots of home have checkerboard floors in the kitchen and they look awesome (not at all like the picture they used in the article). Same on the subway tile which can totally not be boring if done in color or different texture.
I will say that I am not a fan of the microwave over the stove. Less because of aesthetics and more because I need a powerful hood exhaust over my range. In our current house we have the microwave on a shelf in the “working side” of the island. It’s been my favorite spot for the microwave in any of the houses we lived in. Also cheaper to do that than a built in.
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Move out the microwave? Uh, I thought kitchens were for cooking and these days, lots of re heating. There was an article going around a year or so ago titled something like, “Your kitchen is just fine.” Trashing design that is suddenly out of style and making folks think theirs is breaking rules is expensive and resource wasting.
That being said, I am living with a kitchen that needs a remodel after 50 to 60 years. But I am loving the solid and functional drawers and shelves of the 1960s, as well as my pull out cutting board, long out of style.
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I don’t like microwaves built into cabinets, partly because mine is on the big size so that I can cook all the dishes in Moghul Microwave, but I would never ever hide my microwave. I created a big open shelf that houses my fridges, (big one plus wine fridge), there’s a row of shelves on top for trays. It would not be to everyone’s taste, but it works for me. (I’m a Julia Child sort of cook - I want my knives and frying pans and stuff where I can grab them easily.)
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Our rather large microwave is right on our counter next to our stovetop. I like it that way and would never change. If a microwave is high up as it is in one of my son’s places, it’s too high for me to use or clean well. If I were buying a house, that would be a big negative.
Our oven is built in and is quite old - probably goes back to the 50s when stainless steel was first in. We haven’t even thought of replacing it since it works well. Unfortunately, H tells me the “broil” burner is getting iffy in it. I shudder thinking about what we might have to do sooner or later. I doubt we can simply get a replacement part and I’m not sure today’s sizes would make it easy to replace totally.
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I agree about not having a microwave over my stove. But built in and easily accessible would be my preference, not sitting on a counter. JMO.
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If you have plenty of counter space, then use it however you wish. My preference is to save as much counter space as possible for work/prep, so I’d prefer the microwave to be built-in or on a shelf. I also prefer a convection microwave so I get an extra oven. The summer property we just bought does not have a ton of counter space and has a builder-grade white metal range hood that we plan to replace with a convection MW. I agree with others that this is not optimal, but freeing the counter is more important to me, and we don’t plan to cook in this place with the same rigor we do at home.
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LOL - I had almost mentioned the remove-microwave item from article because it irritated me the most.
We adore having the microwave over the smoothtop range. We use the microwave a lot, and it is nice to have a good “landing area” below. We do use our stove, but not as much as serious cooks. The built-in fan is fine for our need, though we often don’t need it. I do recognize the fact that other people (ie potential future buyers) would prefer a different arrangement, but we’ll likely keep it same when/if we remodel.
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We only use bar soap at our showers and some of our bathroom sinks. At our kitchen sink we have Dawn and softsoap (bought a lot of it at beginning of pandemic). It’s a goal to use less plastic, but we’ve been slow evolving.
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Those old ovens (my dads oven is 60+years) are quite easy to fix and replace the burners. I’ve ordered parts (they were standard size ) and it’s simply a matter of pulling one out and inserting the new one.
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People should have what they want!!
I only skimmed that article, but it still annoyed me. My mil has a friend who is also my friend, and she is SO judge-y about all things interior design - kitchen or otherwise. HER way is the right way. Anything else is “wrong.”
My mil has and likes white appliances. When her DW recently broke, it was a bit of a challenge to find a replacement in white (I think the pandemic has made getting appliances - and lots of other things - challenging). Friend kept telling her she should do this or that instead. Also told her her built in oven and microwave were out of style and should be changed. Doesn’t like the raised bar counter in one spot. On and on. Who cares??? She likes it the way it is and she’s 82 years old!! (This friend is 70). Friend talks about increasing resale value. I get that, but mil doesn’t mind how it looks, doesn’t want to go through the hassle of it, and isn’t worried about the resale value.
As someone else noted above - at one point designers were telling us we should do all the things they are saying NOT to do now. Such a racket.
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Good to know, thanks! I really like the oven and it’s at perfect height not being on the floor. It may be 60-70 years old, but it works extremely well. It doesn’t clean itself, but we keep aluminum foil on the bottom, so no biggie at all there. We just replace that when it gets awful (not often).
Counterpoint: a designers job is to keep up with trends. A consumers job is to make decisions based on your own needs. Not the designers problem if you feel you have to keep up with the Joneses!
(disclosure: I am NOT a designer! 
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