kitchenette

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Kitchenette with a small fitted kitchen ( here in a hotel room in Oregon / USA, 2009)

A kitchenette is usually a somewhat separated area of ​​a room in a smaller apartment or apartment , holiday apartment , hotel room or similar, which is equipped with the most necessary elements of a kitchen such as sink , refrigerator and cooking facilities. It is used primarily for heating of finished products or prepared meals and partly also for preparation of the most simple food and also of hot drinks as well as for storage and cleaning of a minimum configuration of cookware , kitchen utensils , crockery and cutlery .

Features and equipment

In contrast to a separate kitchen, kitchenettes are usually connected to the living room or room in an open design and are often arranged in a room niche or separated from the room by means of a short partition (wall template) or the like. Alternatively, they can be located in any (apartment) hallway.

They are usually designed in the form of a built-in kitchen reduced to the essentials . This usually includes a sink, refrigerator and cooking facilities such as a microwave , hotplate or stove . They are often equipped with a fixed, smaller fitted kitchen, but sometimes also with a (sometimes mobile) pantry or cupboard kitchen .

In some cases, they are also used to store food and drinks as well as utensils, crockery and cutlery. In addition to a small refrigerator, they are usually equipped with a few lower and upper cabinets, some with open shelves, in which dry supplies and spices etc., plates, cutlery and cookware, as well as detergent and tea towels etc. can be stored.

The kitchenette is also often found in guest rooms , fitter rooms or in student dormitories . It increases the "cosiness"; Rooms equipped in this way are considered " cozier ".

In general, a kitchenette allows the respective user a certain amount of self-sufficiency in the named locations, which is why it is more common in such forms of living and accommodation in the western world than in Asian countries with their traditionally high proportion of street food and out-of-home catering .

  • Different arrangements of kitchenettes

  • Standing free in the room on a wall

  • In a niche

  • In a niche (here with upscale furnishings)

  • In a hallway area

Trivia

In various “micro-apartments” of around 9 square meters in the Japanese capital of Tokyo , such as the living modules in the Nakagin Capsule Tower from 1972, there are some kitchenettes that manage as “ultra-mini kitchens” with a floor area of ​​only 0.3 square meters : They consist of a small refrigerator, stacked on top of a microwave and a rice cooker, as well as "boxes of dry noodles and sachets of soups ".

literature

  • Klaus Spechtenhauser (ed.): The kitchen. Living environment, use, perspectives . Published on behalf of the ETH Zurich (=  Edition Wohnen . Volume 1 ). Birkhäuser, Basel a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-7643-7280-X , pp. 39-42 .
  • Marion Hellweg: Small Apartments. Maxi furnishing ideas for mini residential refuges . Blottner, Taunusstein 2012, ISBN 978-3-89367-131-1 .

Web links

Commons : Kitchenettes (and pantries / cupboards)  - Collection of images
Wiktionary: Kitchenette  - explanations of meanings, origins of words, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

Note: Individual references given at the end of paragraphs refer to the entire paragraph before.

  1. ↑ Definitions, equipment, service, accommodation. In: deutschertourismusverband.de . Retrieved June 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Oliver Wulf: The kitchenette. Hidden kitchen in the living area. In: Moderne-kueche.com. Retrieved June 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Udo Schmidt (ARD-Studio Tokyo): Micro-apartments in Tokyo: A home on nine square meters. In: tagesschau.de . October 29, 2019, accessed June 23, 2020 .