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

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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

Come on now, it's for giving birth whilst lying back and preparing your husbands packed lunch.

Obvious really.

Wrong thread and also WRONG advice!!!

Once upon a time, in a land far away, there was a fabled band of kitchen & bathroom designers. They laboured long & hard to fashion fixtures worthy of their gracious princess, a girl of sensitivity who recognised the kudos of being associated with the latest trends.

After long labour, possibly supported by overnight activity featuring elves, our fabled band of heroes triumphed, & glorious rumour suffused the land. At last, a kitchen where the nobility could show off all the latest appliances, with none of the usual timewasting associated with trotting down the castle's endless chilly corridors to the jakes.

Alas, the land's joy & celebration was shortlived, as a wicked witch invited herself to the inaugural feast prepared in the new kitchen, & cast a curse which ruined all the heroic designers' painstaking work.

Only a vestigial fragment of this mighty former work now remains, & is exhibited in a showroom museum in Harrogate, a town lauded for its acknowledgement of fey kitchen & sanitaryware over the centuries. It is, of course, the only remaining example of the much-feted Worktop Po, & shame on you all for not recognising it instantly.

It wouldn't work as a bin drop because you'd have to push all your scraps carefully onto the peninsula to get to the curved drop.

I guess if it was supposed to hold a mixing bowl you'd be pushing the mixing bowl up against the curve with your belly/hip to hold it in place while you put a bit of effort in (whisking egg whites by hand for instance). Seems a bit specialist...

Definitely looks like a huge removeabke chopping board on the website virtual tour. Can't actually find it for sale though

amatsip

I will check back tomorrow

I think you need to send them a strongly worded email telling them they can’t just put something like that out on display without a little sign explaining what the hell it is!

Why would you make pastry on a wooden board? Wouldn't the granite surface be better - you need a cool surface for pastry.

I think it's a piece of wankery placed there by a personal injury lawyer masquerading as a kitchen designer.

Or maybe it's a measuring device - if you thighs don't fit between the two ends, you shouldn't be eating more cake. If so, it and its designer can fuck off all the way to the Miserable Cafe of Joyless Shit That's Good For You.

How can it be for a bowl? Why would you have a mixing bowl there, like that? If you put a tea towel under a bowl it won't slide about, I can't work out what function it could possibly have.

I am shamelessly marking my spot on this thread because ...... damn that thing is weird and I would walk into it every single time I walked past. That thing is not necessary in a kitchen

It looks dangerous!

If you look closely you can see a seam so it must fold down when not in use. Not sure of it's use but baking is most likely surely.

Something id walk into on a daily basis

But if it's to hold a bowl- how do bowls necessarily fit? It's a fixed size and shape.

Do you fold it back on to the work top and it braces the bowl in it's curve when beating sugar and butter together ?

And it's a stupid idea and very poorly designed IMHO.

Pointless. Unless it's got two hooks on the underside for dangling a carrier bag from, I suppose.

(DP is a fully paid up member of the Why Use the Seventy Quid Purpose Built Bin When the Corner Shop Gives You Carrier Bags To Hang Off The Handles school of catering).

It's for losing weight. You put all the chocolate against the wall and if you get too close, you get spiked. It's a long term solution.

Surely nobody would start mixing some and think “ Oh I have to stand in that bit, jam the bowl into this wooden shape, stabilise it with my hip and then mix it”?!

How can a chopping board be that big, where do you keep it?!

@Bubblysqueak I could do with that in my kitchen if that's what it's for 😂😂

Damned if I know.
Place marking for answers!

Was it really built in ? Could it be a measuring device that someone had left there ?

This is one of my favourite threads. Oh the curiosity!
I've now scoured online pictures or bespoke wooden kitchen worktops. There is nothing like this on any of them. It's obviously a freak's work!