Good kitchen sink for a slattern?

[Pannacotta]

Am planning a new kitchen and would like a sink which will disguise the fact I am a domestic slattern.

There are always dirty pans waiting to be washed next to our sink and clean post/pans piled up on the drainer (I won't mention the used tea bags and empty cat food tins...)

Would a double undermounted sink be worth getting? Are drainer cut outs easy to keep clean?

It would be nice to be able to have a sink big enough to wash baking trays/fridge shelves in, though I fear a white belfast sink is at odds with my housekeeping.

Any tips/recommendations please?

Ta

I would go for a 1.5 sink or double sink, metal, that way you can avoid plastic washing up bowls but still be able to tip away the dregs of a drink or rinse gravy off plates.

I have a single sink now and I really miss having a double. The metal ones come up nicely with a good scrub plus Cif cream or astonish paste if someone has left teabags in them for days. So I hear

To disguise mess, I would think it's all about where you put the sink in the kitchen rather than the type of sink (though I definitely agree you want a double or 1.5).

What I mean is, imagine where the kitchen table is going to be. Put the sink somewhere it can't really be seen by people who are sitting at the table. Likewise, imagine what people will see when they first walk into the kitchen from the hallway. Put the sink somewhere that is not the first place they will look.

So for example if you are having a central island in your new kitchen, don't put the sink in it, it will be the centre of attention! try to tuck it away at the back/side of the kitchen.

"Good kitchen sink for a slattern?"

That would be what we like to call 'the dishwashing machine' in our house.

Its like a special sort of sink that washes up for you.

:) More, we have one of those!
Still manage to make huge amounts of mess every day though!

I have planned the sink to be on the back wall so it's out of sight when you come into the kitchen and it will be stainless steel rather than white. Would never dream of putting a sink on an island...

Any thoughts on whether an undermounted sink and the worktop around it is easier to keep clean than one which sits on the worktop?
This looks good
www.tapsuk.com/101.0051.478-franke-mythos-1.5-bowl-stainless-kitchen-sink-mmx661-r.html

Also, with a double sink, I was thinking I could stash dirty pans in there rather than on the worktop, but would this work?

Am sure there must be some other sink slatterns on here...

i did this only today pannacotta! i hid a dirty pan in a sink only today! we have hidden some pans in it today for visiting people to not notice! (they had been in the dishwasher and been failed and were / are requiring some manual attention!)
A DOUBLE SINK is just amazing.

ooh in my last kitchen I had a humungous sink in a terracotta colour (nicer than it sounds honestly) with a half sink and drainer
was excellent for hiding stuff cos it was so deep
and the colour meant you couldn't see the tea stains

Disposable crockery and cutlery? Eat out all the time? Get takeaways in?

Seriously though, someone I knew had a huge Belfast sink and a sliding lid over it that could be used as an extra work surface. That was a good idea I thought.

it was like this , composite sink, god I loved that sink !!

and yy a deep one hides a multitude of crap

Glad I'm not the only one who has a loitering dirty pan habit!!

Liking the "sink lid" idea for hiding those guilty, dirty secrets...

ggirl that sink does look good, though have to admit the colour is not my favourite.

A deep double sink is sounding more and more like a good idea...

Any thoughts re undermounted vs surface mounted?

Perhaps I should look for some pans which are dishwasher proof as well.

Please feel free to point me in the right direction....

depends what surface you are having. ours is undermounted and it just looks amazing. even more 'hidden'. but we have granite and it works as a drainer too with grooves cut into the granite. i much prefer undermounted. but maybe you dont have such a strong view?

I do like the look of them, they look much sleeker, and think we will go for quartz worktop as I like the paler colours so this would work.

Just remember reading somewhere that in hard water areas, which ours is, the drainer grooves can get really badly stained with limescale, esp if you are not terribly good at cleaning....

Erm.... all pans are dishwasher proof?

we are in hard water area and have undermounted sink in granite top
the area around the sink has limescale , needs a good scrubbing with wire when I can be arsed
it is a pita tbh
but the over the top ones would still get limescale around the unit but I guess you wouldn't have to worry about limescale in the draining grooves , well they'd still have limescale but with ssteel you could get rid easier with deadly chemicals

More we have posh Analon non-stick pans which arent dishwasher proof as it removes the non-stick coating.

WIll do some archive searching re limscale and drainer channels...

Buy good quality steel pans with steel handles and a black iron griddle pan that must never be washed but rinsed, scrubbed and wiped with oil.

A pan that can't be dishwashered surely is a bit fragile to cook with?

They are fine to cook with, I tend to use silcone spatulas or wooden spoons with them so they dont get damaged but no other tlc.

But we cook a lot and do things like porridge and risotto so the non-stick makes it much easier to clean them afterwards.

I do have some expensive Habitat stainless steel pans but they are a bugger to clean, either by hand or in the dishwasher...

Am I the only one wondering why go to so much effort to hid the pans - surely it would just be easier to wash the damn things?

Fwiw, I have a light grey marble double sink. No water marks like you get with the silver ones and any stains magically disappear with a squirt of bleach.

You never know, a nice shiny new kitchen may cure your slatternly ways

*hide

My stellar stainless pans wash fine in the dishwasher, even porridge and rissotto.
Double stainless sink on top of work surface best for slattern imo - the large stainless drainer area cleans very easily, and stays looking clean

Thanks CMOT for that, I did wonder if a sink with drainer might be a better bet for us. Not sure we have the budget for a marble sink...

Will check out stellar pans too.

Grape we do wash the pans/roasting trays etc, but the fact they dont go in the dishwasher does mean they spend time next to the sink before they are washed and then are left to drain on the side, none of which is pretty.
At least with two sinks you can hide them away a bit more.

My particularly slatternous friend hides her dirty pans in the oven. In fact said oven is used more for dirty pan storage than for cooking

friend?

amazonian I have a friend who has a stash of roasting and baking tins hiding in her oven...