AIBU to think bread bins are totally pointless?

[PrincessJenga]

DP is obsessed with getting a bread bin. He swears it will keep bread fresher than just putting it in the cupboard and that it's more convenient than my tactic of freezing every bread product that enters our home. I don't see the point. Surely they just take up space in the kitchen and make no difference to the bread itself? We can't agree so I said I'd put it to the MN jury.

Breadbin: waste of money or kitchen essential?

I know. But I don't like kettles. I don't want it there looking at me.

I watched an episode of Grand Designs once and all you could see in the kitchen was about 40 feet of clean bare worktop and a great big tap. I have a great big tap, but everyone keeps putting stuff on the side. I have got rid of the microwave, the jug of utensils and the toaster, but can't get rid of the kettle.

Disclaimer: I am not as deranged as I sound

GetOrf, you just sound as if you wish you lived with John Pawson

Yes! That's exaclty what I want from life - this is my dream kitchen albeit without the flamboyant unecessary plant.

See - no kettle, no bread bin, no shit.

I have never heard of John Pawson but he is obviously my ideal man.

Get Orf

You remind me of my mum when I was growing up. We weren't allowed anything on the side including the kettle lead which had to be disconnected from the kettle and hung up on a hook out of sight!
When I had my DS I went to stay at my parents and every time I walked from the lounge I would come back to find the baby gym tidied away somewhere. In fact anything I needed would disappear away somewhere out of sight normally when I needed it quickly with baby in one arm.
I once counted how many times I had to open the cupboard to get the washing up liquid and replace in cupboard after use, (obviously hand washing everything as you go with new baby so as not to leave empty bottles around) the cupboard was opened and closed around 40 times a day just for washing up liquid!

I wouldn't mind but her food prep skills are lethal for example she defrosts prawns under warm tap water etc. I would much prefer the odd thing out in a kitchen and safer food prep TBH

Getorf- you need one of those taps that produces instant boiling water, might be more aesthetically pleasing to you.

This quooker thingy

All twee kitchen containers are totally pointless.

MT banged on about T/C/S containers, bread bins and the like, for a full year before I conceded defeat and bought some.

He still continues to search cupboards for those consumables now hiding away in their shiny new containers, months after order was (allegedly) wrought upon my kitchen.

He can't find a damn thing. The only viable purpose seems to be providing me with a good laugh every time I hear him swear and bang cupboard doors in the kitchen.

purple but the quooker tap will clash with my sink tap, so that won't do. Unless I hide the quooker in a cupboard

Micro my dd will rebel like you I expect - when she moves out she will have vases and mug trees and stuff and I will have to sit on my hands when i go to her house

you could actually kill someone if you knock something of that worktop, Getorf

it's a sheer drop on the other side

some poor sod would get an errant tin of beans lodged in his skull

and that has to be the least flamboyant plant I have ever set eyes on

Get orf
That's just it I am not rebelling I am totally normal and I can't stand mug trees or containers for utensils. I don't have excessive things out in fact I am quite minimalist it's just that if you use something often it should be to hand like a kettle for example

That kitchen is vile btw, so claustrophobic and the work tops so narrow. The lip underneath the worktop is just a haven for crap too and would be a bugger to clean!

I know - I have never met anyone who doesn't think I am nuts re my kitchen plans.

That kitchen is beautiful

Sans the plant.

GetOrf - I thought of a boiling water tap for you as well! They come in all sorts of different designs and there are also wall-mounted ones too. I know somebody whose boiling-water thingy is set into the wall.

You would hate my house

YABU, We have a bread bin and it does keep the bread fresher, Putting the bread in the fridge can actually make the bread go off more quickly

Yes we have a bread bin, a Brabantia one BUT I am on the hunt for a bigger one and have yet to find something suitable................

I think this is one of the best thread titles of all time.

And it's made be double think if I REALLY need that bloody bread bin or not!

I love you mumnetters - you are so astute!

OK you win, this is, against stiff competition, the dullest AIBU yet.

Keeping bread in the fridge is bonkers, makes it go stale. But a frozen ciabatta or similar doughy white bread defrosted in the oven, so the lashing of butter melt on application... oh yes.

No, best Aibu for ages.
I use an old enamel flour bin. It looks very fetching in my slightly cluttered kitchen.
But I suspect my kitchen would give GetOrf an aneurysm.

Hahah, sorry tinker! I have to be honest & say I wasn't expecting quite so many replies. Breadbins clearly touched a nerve! Just trying to work out what pointless crappy invention to ask you all about next... We just bought a butter dish. Thoughts?