What is this... thing... that was built into kitchen worktop?

[AintNobodyHereButUsChickens]

What's it for? We went to look a new kitchens and this hip smasher odd sticky-outy thing was built into one of the hardwood worktops and I can't work out what it's for

Hirsutefirs
It’s a go- no-go dwarf gauge

Or or or is it the exact height and width to fit an Antelop high chair under and it's a posh high chair tray?

Must be something to do with scraping into a bin. Or rest a mixing bowl in so it's not so high when you're mixing

DH is a kitchen designer and he says it's for resting the bowl in and mixing it so that it doesn't move around - someone up thread suggested that too

But why do you need a shape like that to scrape things into a bin? I’ve managed fifty years without one so far. Have I been doing it wrong?

Hardly for a high hair when there are cupboards underneath. No room for toddlers legs.

But the bowl would move cos it’s not on a surface? I don’t understand

Don't get one

It must be something to do with baking because the worktop is dressed with baking stuff.

It's just the right height for a small child to run into and hit their head.

Kitchen shop owner/ kitchen designer sister has never seen anything like it.
She thinks it's likely to be for a child to stand close to the counter on a stool and the curve helps stop them falling off sideways. (They can help make all that delicious grey pastry with you then. Yummm)
I suppose a trayless gighchair would also work depending on the splay of the legs and how close they are to the base unit.

Wow. I can’t imagine mixing in a bowl so often that it would be an advantage to have this, rather than a disadvantage knocking my hip against it a million times a day

That was me. I knew I was right.

Can you tell your dh to make it slide out of the way when not baking? It looks like an accident waiting to happen.

He said you push the bowl into it and hold it in with your hip

I would also be the person who bangs into it every single day

If you had a Pyrex bowl they sort of slide on the worktop don't they. Still never really an issue, I've never wished someone would invent a fix.

I wonder if you have to bring your favourite bowl with you when choosing the kitchen so they can measure the curve to the size of your bowl

Yes agree, my Pyrex bowl would be too small and would wobble on there

You have to go back to the shop and ask.

Hundreds of mumsnetters need to know what it's for!

Somewhere for the cat to sit.

To rest a pregnant bump on? Directly marketed at MN??

Whatever it is don’t buy it! I can recommend Kitchenwarehouse at Ripon OP, they sell safe worktops on their kitchens.

I have decided to email them for confirmation of what NotSorry's DH said. The automated response said I will have a reply within 24hrs so watch this space!

DH is a kitchen designer and he says it's for resting the bowl in and mixing it so that it doesn't move around - someone up thread suggested that too

Stupid idea, unless it's detachable. I'd stick to my tried and tested damp cloth under the bowl, rather than that stomach piercer.

It’s sort of a hairbrained solution to a problem that doesn’t really exist that ultimately ends up causing 99 more pressing problems. Did anyone have that book ‘101 un-useless inventions’ in the 90s - it reminds me of one of those...

You don’t have anything important planned tomorrow do you? Because now you have to go back. We need to know.

Is it like one of those backwards hair wash basins you get in the hairdressers? Only for feeding?