Who Has Control Of Their Kitchen

[wee stu]

Wouldn't dream of brewing in my kitchen.

High velocity burners, huge evaporation rates, triple tier gravity fed system, doesn't merit thinking about .

That said, and just to stir the kettle a little, I reckon "who controls their kitchen" could be strongly related to the level or type of brewer you are

I am now firmly in the all grain camp.

One of the things that pushed me that way, apart from the quest for great beer , was a long standing love of cooking, and eating, real food.

The tin opener in my kitchen (I do 90% of the cooking in my house, event though both my wife and I work full time, and she is a great cook) does basically two things - opens tinned tomatoes when I am in a hurry and coconut milk when I have not pre-prepared.

The kitchen has no microwave and few labour saving utensils.

Processed or packaged food simply isn't on the menu.

I reckon there is probably a very high proportion of all grain brewers who are more than handy in the kitchen.

The ones I know are often as vehemently against processed, convenience food as they are against processed, convenience beer.

(considered donning a flame suit, but reckoned "heh, if you can't stand the heat........."

 

[jimi]

I still got the run of the kitchen, but my 15lt batches don't consume alot of space. Enough I suppose though to have to order out for take away a couple of times when a brew day has been slow.
The lady doesn't mind and usually tends to allow some mess to build up prior, knowing that I'll be going over everything like a madman before hand and clearing space and mess ( not that it's her responsibility to keep it clean h34r: :lol: )
The tile floor always comes up a treat afterwrad as I tend to spill as much ortho-phos acid sanatiser as I do wort.