Save the kitchen!
If kitchens are being built smaller and food deliveries are on the rise, will we still be cooking Christmas dinner in years to come? Kathy Slack hopes so
It’s the annual festive jigsaw puzzle: how do I fit the brining turkey in the fridge but leave room for the trifle? If Gran’s at the table peeling the spuds, where is little Charlie going to ice his tree decorations? And if only we had a second oven for the ham…
You’d think, given the nation’s seeming obsession with cooking (not to mention our enthusiasm for ever more elaborate seasonal feasting) that we’d be building bigger kitchens. You’d be wrong. In new-build homes, there is a worrying trend towards kitchens that are too small to swing a turkey in. An estate agents’ survey showed recently that the size of the average British kitchen has shrunk since the 1960s (and kitchens weren’t that huge even back then, when it looked like the future was going to be convenience food and instant everything…).