Our kitchen work triangle

You may be familiar with the concept of a kitchen work triangle.  The idea is that if you make an efficient path between the sink, stove and refrigerator, your kitchen time will be spent most productively.  Lately, a huge improvement was made here at the hotel.  For a long time, our refrigerator has been located in an adjacent room, which will become the quilt shop classroom.  A few days ago, the refrigerator was repositioned in the kitchen.  So the number of steps between the stove and refrigerator was reduced from about 20 to 4.  Huge change!  Welcome change!  But, even though it's been a few days, I still sometimes retrace my steps to the classroom.  What's that they say about teaching an old dog new tricks?  Today will be the day I'm fully trained!

We still have a way to go to make our kitchen even more efficient.  Because of our remodeling, the water to the kitchen sink has been shut off.  This is still the case, because we have other issues in that area of the kitchen to address first.  So the best sink to wash dishes in is located upstairs (18 steps to the staircase alone)!  At least we don't have to do dishes in the bathtub!  I know that's a common phenomenon when remodeling.  Stay tuned, within a month or two I should have a greatly improved kitchen triangle.

It's kind of amazing what you just accept as "normal" during a remodeling project as large as this one.  I'm going to try to write about these situations because, after a change is made, that becomes the "new normal" and you forget about the the earlier circumstances.  But those earlier circumstances can be pretty amusing.