Kitchen

A First Kitchen From Zero

A first kitchen arrives empty: a sink, a hob, a cupboard that smells of the last tenant, and nothing to cut on. Our first dinner was made with a borrowed knife on an upturned plate. The first breakfast involved guessing how much flour goes into pancakes. By the end of the first week we had eaten pasta four times, because pasta is what you cook when you own one pan and no bowl. This scene follows those two weeks in the order the gaps showed up — the first dinner, the next morning, the first proper week of cooking, and the evening the dishes finally had somewhere to go. Everything here is the sensible middle of the range, mostly steel, nothing that touches food made of mystery plastic. Expect to spend between $120 and $200 for a kitchen that can cook most weeknight dinners.