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

I think it’s to cradle a pot belly. Glad to see them designing kitchens with men in mind.

Did you happen to mention a passion for whisking while you were shopping for kitchens? 🤔

I just clicked on this thread to look at the picture. But now...I have to know what it is. Tried googling. Nothing.

Google brings nothing up though, mixing bowl rest, ledge, stand, holder. Mixing bowl work surface, Nothing

Good work on emailing them op!

It's a handy stand for leaning your crutches against. You know, the ones you're going to need (permanently) after you install that worktop in your dream kitchen...

"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"

Mmmm, it looks incredibly ungainly. Best to use a damp cloth to hold bowl in place. Did someone who has never baked invent this?

@APatchyTomCat
Bravo. Bravo.

How strange!

I know I'd forget bowl needed supporting & walk away!
(If that's what it's for!)

It's a bum rest for the young twenty somethings that only use their kitchen worktops for post tinder date fun

It's not a worktop, it's a pastry board, so removable. Which makes the physical danger it poses less of an issue (providing, of course, you put the rather heavy looking thing away after you've finished baking).

I am desperate for your reply OP! I wonder if the will really know or if the office will spend the next 24 hours googling trying to come up with an answer. Maybe they'll end up quoting this page...

I think it's to slide the waste off too. Unnecessary and ugly!

It's a guide for the domestic equivalent of those immensely fun-looking slides sectioned waste disposal chutes that builders attach to the side of the scaffolding to take rubble direct to the skip. Do you regularly peel an extremely large quantity of vegetables?

Alternatively, if you see a mouse scuttling across the kitchen floor, you attach a rubber band to the outer extremities of the inbuilt counter-top peninsula, load it with a large compacted ball of pastry, wait for the rodent to pass exactly underneath that spot, twang the band to fire the weapon and swiftly send the little pest into the next world. It's amazing just how often that scenario arises.

Otherwise, the only explanation that makes any sense whatsoever to me is that it's to enable Chubby Checker fans to fight their natural instincts and stay still when they need to concentrate on weighing or measuring something precisely.

Frankly, I wouldn't be without mine.

You rest your chin on it and shovel food in.

I think pp has it. It’s a remove able pastry board

It looks to me like a solution that hasn’t found its problem just yet!

So the whole massive breadboard thing can slide off? Maybe it’s to stop it squashing the child who has tugged on it for the 8 millionth time and knocked it on to themselves. Instead of crushing them it helpfully pins them to the floor by the neck.

It’s for kitchen sex, clearly, to solve the problem of sliding sideways when going up against the work surface.

This is similar - it's a pastry kneading board.

Worktop mini potty holder?

Lady worktop masturbation steadying curve?

H is a kitchen designer and he says it's for resting the bowl in and mixing it so that it doesn't move around

How could you possibly rest a bowl in that?

Other similar-looking things seem to exist (not that I'm convinced of their usefulness!).

So if it's for pastry, I still don't get what the overhang is for!