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

[PenguinsAreAce]

...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.

6 people needs at least two potato peelers, oven gloves and at least two chopping boards. Never stayed in a place that has ONE of either of these but instead has drawers of clutter such as an array of melon ballers, serviette dispensers, pineapple ringers, piping tools, tomato rosetters and one place that had a fucking toast rack per person.

@NorthCoast Wed 09-Aug-17 08:43:35
"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 hate those pods. So much waste! We went to an air bnb earlier this year that had one, and duly bought pods from the local mini supermarket. Theses 'universal' pods did not fit the machine. We ended up having to skewer them, open them into a jug and pour water on. And then pour the coffee off when the grounds had settled. It was an urban Airbnb so the next day we went to Starbucks [sigh].

Just go basic. It still works!

I bring cake with me so can do without cake tins & scales, but otherwise I totally agree. And with more DC I might well bring fairy cake tins with me.

We went in s group of 5, and just had enough crockery/ cutlery etc, but I'd packed a box which has knives, tea towels, oven gloves, whisk, peelers etc - just those things that are useful but maybe inessential to someone that doesn't cook.

LOTS OF WINE

You can cook a cake in the roasting dish thing (traybake) or oven proof Pyrex bowl. I did not expect cake tins!

Holidaytime yes, we also love breakfast pancakes and make them a couple of times a week. Cheap, popular and filling.

I am prepared to concede that even I did not expect a veg steamer, even though we use one daily at home.

For those who asked, we have no cleaner (so just one tea towel). Oven gloves really not on the list and pans we have are the ones listed. Mugs really are small/slim. No coffee maker, but there is a cafetière.

It's not camping, so I really don't see why I should pay this amount for a 'fully equipped modern kitchen' and bring my own bloody (silicon) wooden spoon, hand whisk and oven gloves .

Yes, just get a nice £20 cafetiere that anyone can work out rather than a £200 bells and whistles machine. People who are very poncey about coffee don't use pods would bring their own equipment anyway.

We've only encountered a pod machine in a Hilton suite - where of course the pods were provided.

I agree, I would not want pods, but delighted with a cafetière.

No tea towels here or dishcloths or oven gloves or bin bags and just smidgen of loo roll in only one toilet and it sleeps 8. Does have varied cooking utensils but no scales and only a glass worktop chopping board. Luckily they have a shop you can buy basics from including tea towels - more revenue for them!

Would love it if there was an artisan farm shop on site, lol.

Where are you biscuits?

Just totting up the cost of 6x cake from Starbucks versus making my own. Nope, not sold. Mine's much nicer and less sickly sweet/processed too .

Anyone have a good flapjack recipe using cups?

We've stayed in lots of National Trust holiday cottages and a big draw aside from their locations is the fabulously stocked kitchen.

You could easily make a full roast dinner, Victoria Sandwich and cafetière of coffee. There is always a full block of sharp knives, scissors, scales, grater, hand mixer, baking tins, mixing bowls, casserole dishes sometimes even a soup tureen. The only thing I take with me is my favourite Victorinox small knife.

But no swimming pools or anything so maybe no good for you OP but lots are in coastal areas close to beaches and so on.

Credit where credit is due, we have a decent pair of kitchen scissors though they only provided one bar of hand soap for two toilets

Anyone know of any decent big swimming complexes in England that are standalone?

Penguins, if you do consider a NT cottage at some point take note of what they say about wifi as they have been a bit behind the times on that score and for us (have teenager) reliable wifi is as essential as electricity.

Penguins we are in a very expensive caravan on a Parkdean site. I would say cottages are usually much better equiped and usually have some tea/coffee in but none of that was here as a welcome. On the plus side we do have an amazing view and it's very quiet here. Also there is use of pool etc.

There's a fabulous new swimming pool with slides in Scarborough. It's getting a spa soon too. Lots of caravan parks in the area too, don't know about National Trust, but you can do a compare and contrast of ktichen equipment provision across the range of Center Parcs, Scarborough Caravan, NT Cottage .

For your flapjack recipe, you could just convert your normal one. Weigh your ingredients and then see how many cups they fill. Do your syrup in spoons and measure butter by dividing the pack up.

No need to be exact. There's a lot said about baking being an exact science that needs precise measurements. Total bollocks IMHO. There's a million different recipes on the internet for baking that all have different proportions of ingredients and most of them produce an edible product. Your flapjack is unlikely to be not work if you use slightly less butter and slightly more sugar than your normal recipe.

But I know that Center Parcs is expensive but if you are used to the every day swimming that Center Parcs provides, to pay into a standalone place every day for a week would cost hundreds of pounds - something to consider, but there are lots of other activities in the Scarborough and surrounding areas including Dalby Forest for woodland activities (there are other smaller forests close by too as well as all the beach and seaside stuff).

My holiday bag includes scissors, potato peeler, decent size mug, sharp knife, plastic chopping board (far too many badly wiped down wooden but still used for raw meat boards in use), clothes pegs (for washing, cereal and to distinguish the owner of the 16 identical white towels), cafetiere.

I never thought I would have to add baking trays or oven gloves but the place we are in now has neither. It does have a badly repacked fire blanket that I presume has been used as an oven glove! It also has no water jugs - but 4 vases. No baking trays but a wealth of pyrex casserole dishes. No electricals bar a 2 slice toaster - the place sleeps 8. One pinging frying pan.

And the kitchen is huge - there are multiple empty cupboards. The place we stayed in last year had every cupboard full of salad bowls and saucepans. It didn't have any spare cupboards for food, that all had to go on the kitchen surface. A week's food for 6 people- there was no space. And bizarrely enough they didn't have 6 matching glasses, all the crockery was made up of the dogends of crockery sets. Nothing matched. So a cereal bowl could be a huge pasta bowl or a crystal pudding dish, with a range of mixed sizes/shapes/colours in between.

I've always had a cafetière at CP but will take my own next week just incase!

That's what the artisan farm shop is for (that and a massive movement of money from where-visitors-come-from to where-visitors-visit).

We've just had a week at Caerfai. The little farm shop had fresh pains au chocolat, croissants and baguettes every morning, not to mention raw milk and a fridge full of local sausages and bacon.