To think a fully equipped kitchen for 6 people must include...

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...amongst other essentials the following items:
Wooden spoon or plastic/silicon equivalent
Whisk
Spatula
Scales
Large bowl big enough to make salad/ cake mix / whatever for six people
More than one tea towel (for 7 days)

Bonus points if you can guess what has inspired this.

Was posting that Centre Parcs In Belgium don't have ovens (so no oven gloves either)! But see I've been beaten to it.
There was a juice bar though and some fairly healthy food options in the restaurants.
The drive there was about as long as it's taken me to get to Longleat before, but I do live fairly close to the ferry

If you're at sherwood there's a big Tesco a mile down the road if that's any use, plus a chip shop and a Chinese near Tesco. Centre parcs kitchens are shit.

From what I hear Centre Parcs is very expensive.

But I wouldn't go on holiday any place I had to set foot inside a kitchen.

In 45 years of self-catering holidays, I have never felt the need for scales or a whisk. Not having oven gloves is very remiss though.

The 6 plates for 6 people is bloody infuriating though, which is one reason why we get places bigger than we need (the other is so we don't have to sit cheek by cheek crammed on small sofas).

I take my own potato peeler on holiday, because I can only use one type of peeler on account of being a bit of a klutz, and my super-sharp all-purpose kitchen knife.

Tea towels have never bothered me, but then I won't go to places that don't have a dishwasher.

You can go offsite and pick up some bits outside the park if you need to. A set of cheapy scales and a wok in Tesco would probably only be a tenner. We went to centre parcs near Bedford and there's a Tesco a mile down the road.

Horrified that there is no washing machine. I went to Forest holidays and they don't have washing machines either. I'm not going back.

Ssshhhhh don't tell anyone...CP Whinfell Lakeside Lodges have a washing machine.
And you can get a service wash done. But it might fade/shrink your clothes.

Aw man I really want to be in CP right now :-(

We only ever go for a Friday-Monday and don't tend to do much in the way of big cooking.

Always do a supermarket shop at home and take with (pop the cool box in the car for fridge/freezer stuff)

We also usually cook and freeze some stuff in advance like a big tub of veg soup for lunch.

Suppose we normally go in winter so fridge space isn't such an issue because things can go outside or in the cool box.

Petronellas Lakeside lodges do t have washing machines anymore since they were refurbished. We come to CP regularly (here at the moment!) and there are always oven gloves and large bowls (3 bowls in fact!). We've also got a large frying pan as well. Sounds like you've got things missing, just rung and ask for them replacing,

As for you wanting large mugs, you must want enormous Ines as there are large mugs and huge cappuccino cups too!

We are in Spain, likewise no whisk or scales - concluded it's too hot to bake so they don't.

We have sherry glasses of every size so we ok

Ines? Ones!

You want to bake a cake for 6 people on holiday?

We have rented out a holiday home for years. No baking stuff . Has wooden spoon etc. Few teatowels but l always bring my own so didnt think to put loads in ours.
Has washing machine dishwasher too.
For the pp with airb& b we stayed in one and owner had walked out and left kitchen as in a normal day. Bedroom was as a guestroom but rest of house a regular home. We were out and about so much we didnt care.

Busy making notes here, as I'm just finishing the refurb on my first holiday let. I'm aiming for a 4* Visit Scotland rating - would you expect one of those pod-type coffee machines in the kitchen and if so, would you expect pods supplied with it? Or would a cafetiere be sufficient?

I feel your frustration, and I give you:

Center Parcs Pudding Cake!

3 eggs
1.5 cups SR flour
1.5 cups sugar
3/4 cup of oil
splash of vanilla
jam or chocolate pieces

Butter the biggest glass bowl that will fit in the microwave.

Cover the bottom generously with jam or chocolate.

Beat all other ingredients together and pour into the prepared bowl.

Microwave for 7 min, until it passes the skewer test. Top may not look cooked.

Turn onto a plate to serve.

Yes, I, too, like to bake on holiday. (I've even baked using a campfire.)

This recipe was invented in Centre Parcs, using what was available. No cake tins, no scales, no whisk (hence oil instead of butter). Dc liked it so much that they ask for it very often.

What size is your cup, Stepaway?

We've just come back from 10 days at CP Elvedon. On the whole we had a great time, but no chopping board! We checked on the inventory, and they don't provide one, which I thought was staggering, particularly as we had lovely quartz/silestone worktops, so you either had to chop on that or on a plate.

We didn't do much cooking, but I'd have thought that a chopping board was standard, otherwise why give you sharp knives?

I've never seen scales in self catering properties but as there's only ever two of us, we tend to use apartments or small bungalow type places.

If you are baking, are there cake tins (never seen those either) or do you take your own?

I can see how in your circumstances it might be easier/better to cook rather than eat out, but I would never rely on anything except the basics (crockery, cutlery, couple baking trays, pans, spatula set) really and if you want things like cake tins, scales etc, take your own if you are travelling by car - or bake the cakes the day before you go - they'll be OK for a few days.

I think as a property owner you could fill the kitchen with half the contents of Lakeland, but find that 80% of it isn't touched by 80% of people as they will eat out, bring cooked food with them or have easy to prepare stuff. And then there is the risk that the equipment will get lost, broken or stolen anyway and inventory checks will take ages if you have to count cake tins, scales, multiple glass and plate options.

Whatever they provide! A standard mug is slightly too big, a slender mug or standard teacup are about right.

Whinfell have chopping boards Persil, how odd they don't at Elveden.

You wouldn't get a set of scales in my holiday let. Mind you, if I put the amount of stuff in it that over the years people have thought was essential there wouldn't be room to move. I've been told I'm a slovenly host for not providing a steam mop (although there was a perfectly good sweeping brush, dust pan, vacuum cleaner and normal mop and bucket.) Someone complained that I didn't provide a measuring jug for a litre - but they could just have used the half litre measuring jug twice! The top two complaints though come from the Spanish family who were struggling to cater for the dinner party for 12 they were throwing in my 5-person, (but equipped for 8 people because when we go there we sometimes jam a few extra family members in.) Apparently the pans weren't big enough to cook for 12 people. They were also perplexed about the lack of a maid.

We have a holiday let in Spain. Sleeps 6. I'd like to think the kitchen is very well equipped and certainly that's what guests tell us, but we don't have scales. We have young kids ourselves so provide plastic tableware as well as crockery, plenty of side plates and bowls. However, I am constantly frustrated at the amount of stuff that goes missing or gets damaged. Most popular items to steal are Tupperware and scissors. Knives are always being used for things they shouldn't be, leading to bent or blunt ends, despite there being a perfectly good can opener and bottle opener and corcskrew available. I restock as often as I can but can't be going out to Spain every weekend.

OP I hear you!!!!
I love to cook while on holiday and some of the "fully equipped" kitchens have been woeful. One luxury Hoseasons bungalow in the Isle of White provided us with 4 plates 4 cups 4 tea spoons etc Ridiculous!!!!
If we are holidaying in the UK I am likely to take a stick blender / s
low cooker / pressure cooker with me now.
We are currently in Italy, we came here last year and the kitchen was not bad but lacking in sharp knives and a decent non stick pan, there are scales though. I've just used it to weigh the flour for pancakes that I cooked in the lightweight non stick pan I brought with me (along with a good knife and peeler).
I know cooking on holiday is some peoples idea of hell but I love eating good food and prefer my own cooking!! Yesterday I made coleslaw and then poached some left over nectarines in Limoncello and set in raspberry jelly, we ate it with icecream.