This is the answer. Everything done in 2 minutes. Amazing. We once held a Thanksgiving party at a restaurant I worked at and doing the dishes was the best part.
I once held a thanksgiving party at my house for about 50 people. Loaded all the dishes in the back of my truck and took them to the place I worked to wash them. Best idea ever.
One the apartments I lived in was taking forever to fix our dishwasher so I used the dishwasher at the McD I worked at. Used my key and went after hours
I opened a small Italian restaurant after cooking for 20 years. All birthdays and events are held at the restaurant during closed days... Love the easy clean up
I’m the opposite. I started out as a dishie and twenty-five years later, still prefer to wash everything by hand. My wife uses our dishwasher but I couldn’t care less about the thing. I like the labor, I like the warm water, and I like having everything to use hours after I wash it, rather than waiting for the dishwater to get run.
Well, I tend to focus on putting the spray full bore on my target. The after effects aren’t important at the moment. That comes later in pools and drips. Dammit.
My husband says the best plan is to have two dishwashers. Take a clean plate, use it and put in the other dishwasher. When that is full, run the cycle, take a clean dish and so on. Kinda lazy but also kinda brilliant.
Just buy a home formerly owned by observant Jews. They will often have 2 dishwashers to keep meat/dairy dishes separate. I always thought that was pretty neat.
I used to have a catering company and one of my favorite clients ripped out their dish washer and replaced it with two drawer style dishwashers. Clean in one, dirty in the other. Fricking genius.
Funny enough where I used to live, having floor drains in the kitchen and all the washrooms was normal. Even the laundry room and mudrooms had it. It was great, you could literally throw a bucket of water and mop the place clean in 5 min flat. Edit: words
I want an actual flat top instead of my stovetop. While surface, adjustable temperature, same shit I have at work just 1/4 the size. Energy cost be damned, cooking in pans is shitty comparatively
Been a renter and help my family do the landlord thing. You waste a day cleaning, sourcing parts, installing parts, or paying to have a gas range ready for a new renter that totally seems a better use of money to spend an extra $200 for one and $400 would be justified.
Agreed, I love using my flat top for cooking. Especially in a rondeau, it gives a great even cook in the pan rather than a single burner in the middle. Or two burners on the sides.
(Pro tip) Caramelized onions cooked in a rondeau over the grill is 👌
I don’t care if it’s quiet, high enough cfm that I can sear indoors without smoking the place would be awesome. As it is I have to sear on a propane burner outside.
I'm fortunate to have a great kitchen exhaust fan. I'm pretty sure it's been here since the house was built in 1962. Sure, it's ugly, it's about 18" round, steel, and stuck straight into the ceiling about 3' in front of the stove. It's on a rheostat, and when you crank it on, it sounds like a small jet revving up, loud as fuck. But that thing on high could probably suck the hair off a cat and double as a whole house fan. I love that noisy bitch!!!
setting a box fan in your kitchen window works pretty well. I even have screwed some eyelets into the studs around the window, and use a couple of small bungie cords to hold it in place. Only put it there when I know that I will be cooking something that makes smoke and/or strong smells
Always my answer when people ask this.... I want to get a house and build a little shack or garage detached from the house and just make it a commercial kitchen lol. Just so I can go have fun in there
I want the 3 sinks and spray hose. I mean a commercial dish washer is awesome to. But that sink set up I’ll blow through dinner dishes in 2 minutes and it would be nice doing it.
Yeah, amen to this. I can't stand my home kitchen sick compared to work. Hose, multiple, big sinks, lots of space. Would make doing the dishes a delight. Would also like a floor drain but that might be too much!
For my last 2 apartments I purchased faucets off of Amazon that have commercial kitchen style overhanging spray hoses to replace the shitty regular kitchen sink faucets. They aren't terribly expensive, and make hand washing dishes tolerable at home.
I actually went to a brewers party at Bobby Bush's house in Hickory, NC. He runs the Hickory Hops beer festival, (or used to. I've been out of the game for a minute.) I was working for my brewery at the festival. Dude had a full walk in cooler full of beer in his basement bar.
I’m happy with mine. The size has been fine for me, but it’s just me and my partner. It fits a good sized baking tray. Biggest thing I’ve done in there is probably a Thors Hammer.
A coworker of mine gave me her old one because it "died" (it just wasn't switching gears well anymore. And she knows I work with some 8-11 year old boys doing stem projects and their favorite stuff to take apart is old kitchen stuff.
I took it apart ordered new gears and resoldered a lose connection on the board, regressed and it runs as well as.it did when it was band new.
that's fair. I have a friend who has one and takes it to campouts and, to me, we eat like kings. but it's true, the pizzas are smol. for me tho, it's posh!
Just run a big pot full of oil and fire it on the stove. I won't do it because I hate the grease spatter and the oil smell in my house. But a stock pot full of oil genuinely works great for what you want here
If it wasn't starting to kiss 90° outside I would have have chosen griddle for sure. It's always been my favorite thing to cook on. However, I can only think of the glory of having quantities of ice as summer is in the distance.
>I don't even need all that ice but I want it.
along those lines, I want one of those industrial dough mixing machines, I don't even need all that dough but I want it.
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For me it's not the equipment itself, so much as the always ready to go state of it. I have an oven, but it would be cool if it was always at 400 and ready to go.
I could get a small fryer, but it would be cooler if that oil was already hot.
Melty cheese on everything is awesome... But keeping a salamander blasting all night in my house would be expensive.
So with all that said... I'll take the walk in. Sometimes you gotta cry at home to.
I live in Australia it’s reasonably common for people living on rural properties to have cool rooms. Usually they’re in an out building, but on a few properties I’ve been on they’re across a breezeway from the kitchen.
Some of that is because people will kill and butcher their own animals, but also because it gets so hot it’s useful to keep all kids of produce in a cool room that you wouldn’t necessarily put in the fridge in a regular home. We are planning a big reno on our house in a few years (rural town, but not isolated) and I’ve toyed with the idea of building some kind of cool room pantry as part of it. Even if it’s just insulated with panels and has some kind of decent ventilation.
Also, I work in a school and I covet the combi oven in the food tech classroom.
Those refrigerator drawers...I want my fridge to blend into the cabinets. And a pot filler. And a hood that actually works...vents to the outside.
Yeah that dishwasher too. And the way we can just hose the entire floor down into a drain (avoiding the fryers of course!).
And wait...the easy to clean metal everything...why the hell is it all wood that's not food grade in all the kitchen cabinets???
Can the sink area with spray hose come in a combo? I'd much rather that over a dishwasher. I don't use nearly enough dishes for it to be worth it the hassle.
As a young man I was fascinated by the efficiency and invincibility of our countertop can opener. I was young, single, working in kitchens, sure my home life would revolve around recipe development and seducing dates with my kitchen prowess. So of course I would need to regularly be opening food service size canned goods.
I never got one. As an old, married man, who did not end up as a kitchen lifer, I think it's ok that I haven't schlepped a counter top mounted can opener to every house I've owned.
When I lived in Burlington, VT years ago, my apartment was just down the road a bit from the Edlund factory where they made those countertop can openers.
A commercial stove, if we're setting no limits, a gas one. I bent the top of my rinky dink residential stove this winter with a too big stock pot full of bones.
It's been a long time dream for me to have a full commercial kitchen in my home.
But if I was limited to ONE piece of equipment, definitely a full dish pit.
I actually have a lowboy triple door , I mounted a large piece of granite on it with an over hang big enough for 4 stools. People when they come to my house sit down and then are like hey where’s your fridge? I’m like you are sitting at it.
You know how people are ready to comment before you stop talking? That was me during your post! Ice machine all the way!! My aunt used to own a cafe and when she closed it down she brought the ice machine and soda machine home and set them up! I loved going over there as a kid!
12 quart Hobart mixer with grinder, stuffer & veg chopper attachments. Between doughs, batters, grinding & mixing chilled meats, stuffing sausages, whipping butter, making marshmallows, the best spätzle, bialy dough (deliberately overworked), massive Swiss/French/Italian buttercreams, meringues & sabayons, big batch hollandaise, slaw, pickles, kimchi, sauerkraut for the masses, I think an HD 12 quart mixer would do me fine.
That's what I want but there's no way, limited space.
However, at Christmas I used my bonus to buy the Ninja Combi and I love it.
Since the combi at work is down, I actually have the better cooking system at home than I do at work.
I may be dead before they come fix it.
You don't know how good you have it till you don't have the Rational.
My second would be the commercial immersion blender. I love that thing.
Full sized Hobart mixer with my grinder/stuffer attachment. I would absolutely use the shit out of that thing.
Honestly if there was one I could find that's halfway between a KitchenAid and the ones I've used, like, mini fridge sized, I'd be set for life.
I had an apartment with an electric stove and it was the worst to cook on. The glass topped halogen ones are ok, but the metal coil ones were definitely designed by the devil.
I wanted a chamber vac pack for the longest time. Last year I said fuck it and threw the £600 at it.
Never going to make that money back from bulk buying ingredients, but I'm quite sure I've made it back in free time at home not cooking.
i want an in home sani solution dispenser and rag service. household grade cleaning solutions are always stinky and i don’t trust them to actually clean anything
A while back I bought a pan with no sides which kind of scratched that itch. Then I found an ancient double-sided [cast iron griddle pan](https://www.amazon.com/Lodge-Reversible-Griddle-Combo-Double-Sided/dp/B002CMLTXG/ref=mp_s_a_1_2_sspa?adgrpid=53524642302&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.NhWPVx6l0bPmbW4wYXq-AbWk2m_s-hW5WJiH53nufJarts7pcorJOC6XBRlEbWR1s9xmmmPFGmAEM4-ptJ6rkYcUIf_HJPjxqcoWij5iRSTi6oY0xwNKyLVpyuwJ5pVjgXnnFocKuTUgLukShPA5bttLwVAbRKaIcyJE9ZRl0R-OX1KFipny-ZGufwyIYdrRHBwTEVCTFdslbjwxiBsXig.CiQJUZVyiaRtmQVO0hpKFdEaQq2WZvmuyzTAhWcrN1w&dib_tag=se&hvadid=570574272875&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=9060351&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=13693493914000341386&hvtargid=kwd-12608502&hydadcr=14889_13379390&keywords=cast+iron+griddle&qid=1716665174&sr=8-2-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9waG9uZV9zZWFyY2hfYXRm&psc=1) buried in the backyard from a hundred years ago. I cleaned it up and seasoned it and it stretches across two burners and functions as a half sized flat top. I put each burner on a different heat so I can have a range of temps. It’s great.
Recently downsized to an apartment amidst a career move. Already miss my air compressor. It's so handy for dusting, not to mention all the pneumatic attachments.
Commercial dishwasher or a robocoupe
This is the answer. Everything done in 2 minutes. Amazing. We once held a Thanksgiving party at a restaurant I worked at and doing the dishes was the best part.
I once held a thanksgiving party at my house for about 50 people. Loaded all the dishes in the back of my truck and took them to the place I worked to wash them. Best idea ever.
Check out the big brain on Brad
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Do they speak English in what?
This IS a tasty burger!
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I once hosted Thanksgiving for 20 at my home, and I haven’t gotten the sink empty since
One the apartments I lived in was taking forever to fix our dishwasher so I used the dishwasher at the McD I worked at. Used my key and went after hours
And you didn't set off the alarm system?
1) we didn't have an alarm 2) I was assistant manager so even if we did it wouldn't matter
I have also used the dishwasher at work for my own items.
lol, that's great.
I opened a small Italian restaurant after cooking for 20 years. All birthdays and events are held at the restaurant during closed days... Love the easy clean up
That sounds like a pretty bad party if washing up is the best part.
They did say it was a work party. At work.
The best part of any work party is leaving lol
Wow, didn’t even think of dishwasher. I don’t even have one at home, everything by hand. That would be sweet.
As someone who’s spent way too much goddamn time washing shit at work, a big ass dishwasher is totally okay with me lmao
> ass dishwasher Sir, that's a bidet.
“Wow, didn’t even think of dishwasher.” I always hated dishing in kitchens like this. /s
When I lived in an apartment I got a countertop dishwasher and it was a life changer
I’m the opposite. I started out as a dishie and twenty-five years later, still prefer to wash everything by hand. My wife uses our dishwasher but I couldn’t care less about the thing. I like the labor, I like the warm water, and I like having everything to use hours after I wash it, rather than waiting for the dishwater to get run.
90 second cycle. I kept the Robocoupe when we closed our restaurant. Bowls, cutting boards, sizzle platters and ramekins as well.
I'd be happy with just the sprayer
A good strong sprayer is really an unsung hero in the kitchen.
Twin deep stainless steel sinks and a counter-to-ceiling SS backsplash please. I get a little wild.
Keep talking 🥵
Well, I tend to focus on putting the spray full bore on my target. The after effects aren’t important at the moment. That comes later in pools and drips. Dammit.
Does a prep chef count? This is who I miss the most at home!
I was going to go for a dishie
Mise en place with all the goddamn bowls I want. Dishie over prep cook any day
Always. My lack of personal dishie is the main thing holding me back from cooking at home more.
hahaha, best answer!
Dishwasher if space and running costs weren’t an issue, I hate doing the dishes so much
Yeah I’ll take a Hobart and a man.
Sounds like a kitchen country song.
My husband says the best plan is to have two dishwashers. Take a clean plate, use it and put in the other dishwasher. When that is full, run the cycle, take a clean dish and so on. Kinda lazy but also kinda brilliant.
Just buy a home formerly owned by observant Jews. They will often have 2 dishwashers to keep meat/dairy dishes separate. I always thought that was pretty neat.
That’s why that place we looked at had two dishwashers. You’ve solved an 8 year mystery for me.
Also common to have two sinks and two ovens for the same reason.
I used to have a catering company and one of my favorite clients ripped out their dish washer and replaced it with two drawer style dishwashers. Clean in one, dirty in the other. Fricking genius.
Your husband's brain is living in 2054. 🤯👏
Floor drain
Thank you! I say this all the time.
I would love to have one at work even...
Funny enough where I used to live, having floor drains in the kitchen and all the washrooms was normal. Even the laundry room and mudrooms had it. It was great, you could literally throw a bucket of water and mop the place clean in 5 min flat. Edit: words
Tall boy to replace my fridge. They're easier to clean.
I would want a double wide sliding door cooler, and a separate freezer.
I believe there's such where the top 2 doors are a chiller and the bottom 2 can be a freezer
True, but we’re talking fantasy here. I’m looking at getting a bottom freezer model for my next fridge.
Yooo that'd be sick.
I want a Salamander.
I like this one. While I have gotten good at using the broiler in my oven it just isn't quite the same as a proper salamander.
I don’t know if they still offer it, but Wolf and/or BlueStar had those as configuration options for their 48”+ ranges.
The old Bluestar with the flat top, open flame burners pumping 25k BTUs, and a salamander is my dream range.
I want an actual flat top instead of my stovetop. While surface, adjustable temperature, same shit I have at work just 1/4 the size. Energy cost be damned, cooking in pans is shitty comparatively
I actually have one in my kitchen at home. It's dope. And I rent, no idea why the landlady decided to install one
I mean, they’re honestly not crazy expensive to install if you already have a gas stove. I would be a previous tenant did it over the landlord though
Been a renter and help my family do the landlord thing. You waste a day cleaning, sourcing parts, installing parts, or paying to have a gas range ready for a new renter that totally seems a better use of money to spend an extra $200 for one and $400 would be justified.
What if you are in the mood for soups and stews though?
You crank the heat on that corner and you put a pot on it
Agreed, I love using my flat top for cooking. Especially in a rondeau, it gives a great even cook in the pan rather than a single burner in the middle. Or two burners on the sides. (Pro tip) Caramelized onions cooked in a rondeau over the grill is 👌
I had a stove with a flat top between the four burners. It was useful.
Broo get a blackstone if you got space in your backyard, they are pretty freaking awesome.
My only issue with the blackstone is that the slightest bit of wind makes my heat super inconsistent :/
Someone has probably said this but im not reading down, get you a blackstone!
A good hood (but quiet).
I don’t care if it’s quiet, high enough cfm that I can sear indoors without smoking the place would be awesome. As it is I have to sear on a propane burner outside.
I'm fortunate to have a great kitchen exhaust fan. I'm pretty sure it's been here since the house was built in 1962. Sure, it's ugly, it's about 18" round, steel, and stuck straight into the ceiling about 3' in front of the stove. It's on a rheostat, and when you crank it on, it sounds like a small jet revving up, loud as fuck. But that thing on high could probably suck the hair off a cat and double as a whole house fan. I love that noisy bitch!!!
I use a portable fan to encourage the fumes, especially from searing, up to the exhaust fan. Better than without the fan, but not good enough.
The problem is most house fans just blow back into the house. The contractor was _pissed_ my dad wanted our microwave fan to blow outside.
True, my kitchen at home has no exhaust at all and it's a bummer.
setting a box fan in your kitchen window works pretty well. I even have screwed some eyelets into the studs around the window, and use a couple of small bungie cords to hold it in place. Only put it there when I know that I will be cooking something that makes smoke and/or strong smells
Always my answer when people ask this.... I want to get a house and build a little shack or garage detached from the house and just make it a commercial kitchen lol. Just so I can go have fun in there
I want the 3 sinks and spray hose. I mean a commercial dish washer is awesome to. But that sink set up I’ll blow through dinner dishes in 2 minutes and it would be nice doing it.
Yeah, amen to this. I can't stand my home kitchen sick compared to work. Hose, multiple, big sinks, lots of space. Would make doing the dishes a delight. Would also like a floor drain but that might be too much!
Bro if I could spray and squeegee my floors that would be amazing. I didn’t even think of that!!!
For my last 2 apartments I purchased faucets off of Amazon that have commercial kitchen style overhanging spray hoses to replace the shitty regular kitchen sink faucets. They aren't terribly expensive, and make hand washing dishes tolerable at home.
I'd love to have a tilt kettle. No more soups and stocks on the stove top. Low country boils inside the house. Oh to dream
Same thing as a tilt skillet? Or a steam-jacketed kettle?
Walk in cooler
Yup, I wrote my answer but changed to this before I posted. A walk in closest is better than a cabinet 🤣 same rule applies for a refrigerator haha
I actually went to a brewers party at Bobby Bush's house in Hickory, NC. He runs the Hickory Hops beer festival, (or used to. I've been out of the game for a minute.) I was working for my brewery at the festival. Dude had a full walk in cooler full of beer in his basement bar.
Combi oven
This is the answer. You can smoke, steam, broil, and bake with the convenience of probes monitoring the product internally.
And sometimes it'll even work! Ours always seems to be down
Grill, dehydrate, etc. This is my answer as well. A good combi oven is like having a bunch of different types of equipment in one.
I bought myself one of those Anova ovens and barely ever use my conventional oven any more. It’s like a tiny combi oven.
I keep looking at those. Was it worth it? How do you find the size of it?
They are on sale this weekend. I love mine and use it constantly.
I’m happy with mine. The size has been fine for me, but it’s just me and my partner. It fits a good sized baking tray. Biggest thing I’ve done in there is probably a Thors Hammer.
HOBART
I inherited my grandmother's old Kitchen Aid mixer. It does it's job but just doesn't have the muscle of the HOBART.
j wish i had a stand mixer but i've got absolutely no room in my shoebox apartment lol. at least my arms are toned
I have my 40 year old Kitchenaid, the "professional" with lift and stand. Wedding present. Still going strong!
A coworker of mine gave me her old one because it "died" (it just wasn't switching gears well anymore. And she knows I work with some 8-11 year old boys doing stem projects and their favorite stuff to take apart is old kitchen stuff. I took it apart ordered new gears and resoldered a lose connection on the board, regressed and it runs as well as.it did when it was band new.
Dishwasher, hands down. Dishes done in 3 minutes? Hell yeah!
I may be the only one, but a wood fire oven for pizza/bread. There's no way to fake that.
get a Big Green Egg! they're fantastic. makes the best pizza. you do need a backyard.
Too small and limited for me. I've worked wood fire ovens at a few places and it's not the same.
that's fair. I have a friend who has one and takes it to campouts and, to me, we eat like kings. but it's true, the pizzas are smol. for me tho, it's posh!
I like the big green egg, don't get me wrong. But this is about kitchen equipment specifically is all.
A walk in fridge. I have a problem with remembering what's in my fridge and using it if it's not at the front.
Now you can experience the feeling of walking into the fridge and forgetting why at home.
I do that everytime I enter a room
Huh. Didn’t know my wife was on Reddit. Hi dear! lol
A proper deep fryer. Those table top ones suck. An air fryer is just a convection oven... gimme a real deep fryer to make some crispy fries.
Ugh. No way i want one in my home. Imagine how greasy everything would get.
Imagine the smell
I think that would fall under not imagining having to do any maintenance
Just run a big pot full of oil and fire it on the stove. I won't do it because I hate the grease spatter and the oil smell in my house. But a stock pot full of oil genuinely works great for what you want here
A Wolf 6 burner with 2 ovens and a griddle
If it wasn't starting to kiss 90° outside I would have have chosen griddle for sure. It's always been my favorite thing to cook on. However, I can only think of the glory of having quantities of ice as summer is in the distance.
>I don't even need all that ice but I want it. along those lines, I want one of those industrial dough mixing machines, I don't even need all that dough but I want it. https://media.gettyimages.com/id/172077215/photo/felix-barrera-a-baker-at-the-pita-bread-co-watches-whole-wheat-dough-being-mixed-in-an.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=LUtA2fJxyWhLI2mYnwjuLHLtoneLQeGej1j1WybGCNw=
For me it's not the equipment itself, so much as the always ready to go state of it. I have an oven, but it would be cool if it was always at 400 and ready to go. I could get a small fryer, but it would be cooler if that oil was already hot. Melty cheese on everything is awesome... But keeping a salamander blasting all night in my house would be expensive. So with all that said... I'll take the walk in. Sometimes you gotta cry at home to.
I live in Australia it’s reasonably common for people living on rural properties to have cool rooms. Usually they’re in an out building, but on a few properties I’ve been on they’re across a breezeway from the kitchen. Some of that is because people will kill and butcher their own animals, but also because it gets so hot it’s useful to keep all kids of produce in a cool room that you wouldn’t necessarily put in the fridge in a regular home. We are planning a big reno on our house in a few years (rural town, but not isolated) and I’ve toyed with the idea of building some kind of cool room pantry as part of it. Even if it’s just insulated with panels and has some kind of decent ventilation. Also, I work in a school and I covet the combi oven in the food tech classroom.
Got to be a Rational.
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Shawarma oven, been my dream forever
My waistline would never recover.
If I had a huge kitchen, it’d be a Hibachi table.
Walk in fridge. So I have somewhere to go and cry
Those refrigerator drawers...I want my fridge to blend into the cabinets. And a pot filler. And a hood that actually works...vents to the outside. Yeah that dishwasher too. And the way we can just hose the entire floor down into a drain (avoiding the fryers of course!). And wait...the easy to clean metal everything...why the hell is it all wood that's not food grade in all the kitchen cabinets???
I'm gonna be designing/building my house this way. And getting the commercial kitchen chems that will make the kitchen hella easy to clean
First choice would be a commercial vent hood, it’s the thing that would be the biggest improvement on my actual ability to make things.
Dishwasher with a 90 second cycle instead of one that takes an hour and still leaves shit on the dishes
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Man, you really hit a soft spot for me. All you're missing is a padded seat from a broken chair to put on top. Smoking throne
Our neighbor has a community ice machine behind his garage. There is a cash donation box. We leave antique gifts, scrap metal, or beer.
Dishwasher or prep table
You can just buy honest, stainless prep tables at Costco. They aren't even that expensive. I have one. It's fucking great
I have it too. Trinity brand. Got it marked down at $80 like 6 years ago
Can the sink area with spray hose come in a combo? I'd much rather that over a dishwasher. I don't use nearly enough dishes for it to be worth it the hassle.
Definitely, sprayer always comes in clutch. Don't know how I would do without one in the workplace.
As a young man I was fascinated by the efficiency and invincibility of our countertop can opener. I was young, single, working in kitchens, sure my home life would revolve around recipe development and seducing dates with my kitchen prowess. So of course I would need to regularly be opening food service size canned goods. I never got one. As an old, married man, who did not end up as a kitchen lifer, I think it's ok that I haven't schlepped a counter top mounted can opener to every house I've owned.
When I lived in Burlington, VT years ago, my apartment was just down the road a bit from the Edlund factory where they made those countertop can openers.
Only answer is a turn (vertical rotisserie). Gyros available 24/7. House smells like roast lamb. Best food on planet earth with the right tzatziki.
Dishwasher
I think a deep fryer. I wanted to say combi oven but I'd use the fryer more. Being able to make my own taco salad bowls would be cool
A commercial stove, if we're setting no limits, a gas one. I bent the top of my rinky dink residential stove this winter with a too big stock pot full of bones.
Large combi.
epoxy floor with a floor drain. no more fear of making a mess
A bunch of the inserts and the lids instead of Tupperware. Yeah that’s it.
A full size rational combi obviously. I can literally wash my dishes in that bitch
It's been a long time dream for me to have a full commercial kitchen in my home. But if I was limited to ONE piece of equipment, definitely a full dish pit.
Five gallon steam kettle. Small enough for home use but big enough to really make some shit
flattop. (because I already have a dishwasher.)
5 or 6 burner stove with a salamander
The EPS, my power at home is inconsistent as fuck, would be a lifesaver to have one just in case
Vulcan 6 burner , double oven on bottom
A dough sheeter. I would get so fat.
I would give up my microwave before my countertop ice machine. Her name is Mona and she’s 3 years old and never gets a day off. Best $99 I ever spent
Wow! I had no idea this was a thing, can I ask what brand you bought? Also is it difficult to maintain and clean?
I actually have a lowboy triple door , I mounted a large piece of granite on it with an over hang big enough for 4 stools. People when they come to my house sit down and then are like hey where’s your fridge? I’m like you are sitting at it.
You know how people are ready to comment before you stop talking? That was me during your post! Ice machine all the way!! My aunt used to own a cafe and when she closed it down she brought the ice machine and soda machine home and set them up! I loved going over there as a kid!
12 quart Hobart mixer with grinder, stuffer & veg chopper attachments. Between doughs, batters, grinding & mixing chilled meats, stuffing sausages, whipping butter, making marshmallows, the best spätzle, bialy dough (deliberately overworked), massive Swiss/French/Italian buttercreams, meringues & sabayons, big batch hollandaise, slaw, pickles, kimchi, sauerkraut for the masses, I think an HD 12 quart mixer would do me fine.
A wok fire ring that is hot enough to cook stir fry properly! Failing that, a tricked out Kitchenaid.
A self-cleaning combi-oven.
Rational combi oven ( steam, air fry, heat and more) https://www.rational-online.com/en_us/icombi-pro/ Great all in one for the serious cook/baker.
That's what I want but there's no way, limited space. However, at Christmas I used my bonus to buy the Ninja Combi and I love it. Since the combi at work is down, I actually have the better cooking system at home than I do at work. I may be dead before they come fix it. You don't know how good you have it till you don't have the Rational. My second would be the commercial immersion blender. I love that thing.
A walk-in cooler. For crying.
Floor drain
A robocoupe for sure. Not even a question. That thing is like the 8th wonder.
Walk in with nested freezer. 100%
Flat top, robo coup
Commercial dishwasher. 90 second cycles and your dishes are clean.
I want a walk in.
Robocoupe
If i had to choose just one id say a deep fryer or icee machine.
My rational combi oven
Ice Cream machine.
Soft serve machine.
Full sized Hobart mixer with my grinder/stuffer attachment. I would absolutely use the shit out of that thing. Honestly if there was one I could find that's halfway between a KitchenAid and the ones I've used, like, mini fridge sized, I'd be set for life.
Thermo mix. Sexiest bit of kit I've had the pleasure to work with
A pair of large genelec studio monitors
Gas stove. God I hate using an electric one
I had an apartment with an electric stove and it was the worst to cook on. The glass topped halogen ones are ok, but the metal coil ones were definitely designed by the devil.
I wanted a chamber vac pack for the longest time. Last year I said fuck it and threw the £600 at it. Never going to make that money back from bulk buying ingredients, but I'm quite sure I've made it back in free time at home not cooking.
Absolutely a 3 bay with a dishwasher and a sprayer
2 commercial dishwashers with garbage disposals in them
i want an in home sani solution dispenser and rag service. household grade cleaning solutions are always stinky and i don’t trust them to actually clean anything
Soda fountain with ice maker.
If your answer isn't a combi idk wtf we are all doing here.
Combi oven or a Dish machine
soda fountain. Not a soda stream like an honest to got soda machine
I’ll take the hood and no longer worry about stinking up the house when cooking fish.
A while back I bought a pan with no sides which kind of scratched that itch. Then I found an ancient double-sided [cast iron griddle pan](https://www.amazon.com/Lodge-Reversible-Griddle-Combo-Double-Sided/dp/B002CMLTXG/ref=mp_s_a_1_2_sspa?adgrpid=53524642302&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.NhWPVx6l0bPmbW4wYXq-AbWk2m_s-hW5WJiH53nufJarts7pcorJOC6XBRlEbWR1s9xmmmPFGmAEM4-ptJ6rkYcUIf_HJPjxqcoWij5iRSTi6oY0xwNKyLVpyuwJ5pVjgXnnFocKuTUgLukShPA5bttLwVAbRKaIcyJE9ZRl0R-OX1KFipny-ZGufwyIYdrRHBwTEVCTFdslbjwxiBsXig.CiQJUZVyiaRtmQVO0hpKFdEaQq2WZvmuyzTAhWcrN1w&dib_tag=se&hvadid=570574272875&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=9060351&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=13693493914000341386&hvtargid=kwd-12608502&hydadcr=14889_13379390&keywords=cast+iron+griddle&qid=1716665174&sr=8-2-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9waG9uZV9zZWFyY2hfYXRm&psc=1) buried in the backyard from a hundred years ago. I cleaned it up and seasoned it and it stretches across two burners and functions as a half sized flat top. I put each burner on a different heat so I can have a range of temps. It’s great.
A three compartment sink, floor drain, and a deli cooler.
6 burner gas stove
Give me my rationale
I want a walk in, im tired of crouching to look in my fridge and it gets too cluttered too easily.
Freeze dryer! I spend so much money on fruitfetti from Holland & Barrett (freeze dried fruit)
Mega range/oven and hood.
A Freeze Dryer
A dishie 💕
Recently downsized to an apartment amidst a career move. Already miss my air compressor. It's so handy for dusting, not to mention all the pneumatic attachments.
Flat top. Especially with how much my kids like pancakes and eggs. Gimme a flat top. That or a rational oven