The kitchen in the new house was a big improvement for my mother. She loved the layout. According to her, a U shaped kitchen was the most efficient design. I know that when she and my father built a new house in Utah, she was adamant about having a U shaped kitchen.
She loved her electric, double wall ovens. No more lighting the oven pilot light with a match whenever she wanted to bake. Those double ovens got a lot of use when she baked and cooked big meals like Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner. The turkey could be cooking away in one oven and she could bake rolls and other dishes in the other. She also used the second oven as a warming oven.
The kitchen had a gas cook top. She could have had electric which was the latest and greatest new thing back then.. But she wanted gas so that she'd have a way to cook should the power ever go out. Smart woman. I don't know if the power ever went out making it necessary for her to use only the cook top. But she was prepared, just in case. But probably the biggest thing in the new kitchen was the dishwasher. No more hand washing of dishes! Even I learned to love having a dishwasher.
The kitchen was big enough for a good size table under the window and with room to spare for my mother's sewing machine next to it. Overall, it was a good kitchen arrangement....a dream kitchen of the early 1960s.
Not very different from a dream kitchen today. Add a microwave and a refrigerator with ice in the door, and maybe some stainless steel and granite.
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