Laboratory taste

Organization of product preparation zones in the kitchen in terms of ergonomics and with the help of modern solutions offered by fittings manufacturers

Most of the operations related to the cutting of products and prepare them to the "final stage", the hostess are performed on the working plane, which is located next to the sink and the cooking panel (the oven may be located autonomously). Having a woman dreams to equip this zone so that everything you need is in their places, and any item can be easily removed, to use and quickly return it back.

"Maria" There is a lot of ways to plan one of the most important areas of the kitchen in such a way that when cooking food did not have to make unnecessary movements and spend time in search of the necessary things. The main thing is to try to systematize everything that is in the field of view of the hostess.

Rationalization of the kitchen and increasing its comfort are companies specializing in the field of fittings and systems for organizing cabinets and boxes: Hailo, Hettich, Kessebhmer, Vauth-Sagel (all Germany), Blum, Grass, Harn (Austria), Inoxa, Vibo, Volpato (all of italy) IDR. Just a year, new solutions appear, which are introduced into their programs manufacturers from various countries. Among European is, for example, Alno, Bau-for-Mat, Beckermann Kchen, Geba, Haecker, Miele, Nobilia, Nolte Kchen, Rot Punkt, Siematic (all Germany), Aran, Arca, Aster Cucine, Bamax, Berloni, Binova , Composit, FIMBERTI, Lema, Parlani, Pedini, Scavolini, Selva, Snaidero, Spini (all of Italy). It is worth named and many leading domestic firms: "Allegrdrev", "Announcement", "Atlas-Lux", "Driada", "Eurocomfort", "Kitchen Dvor", "Legna", "Maria", "Satellite Style", "Stylish Kitchens "," Forem-kitchen "," Edel "," Ekomeber "," Elt ", Giulia Novars, Verona Mobili, Virs iDR. The buyer's own shopping salons will help to navigate the buyer, organize the kitchen up to the smallest detail (based on the budget, the area of ​​the room, the selected composition, furniture style, individual queries) and turn the product processing zone into the real taste laboratory.

BECKERMANN KCHENDOWNING TRANSFERY ABOUT ERGONOMIC KITCHEN, started in "IVD", 2010, №3, we do not accidentally want to focus your attention on the features of this zone. It is here that the products are mainly separated and prepared them for subsequent thermal processing. On its "territory" it is necessary to place many items: accessories, small household appliances, scales, cutting boards, all sorts of tanks, butter bottles and vinegar, sauces, spices, seasonings, cereals IDR. It is not easy to decompose all this, as it is called, on the shelves in a small closed kitchen. No less effort requires an open kitchen organization in the studio space. The boundaries between zones are sometimes very transparent, one smoothly flows and even invades another. For example, often used bulky utensils and baking molds are better to keep under the cooking panel in widescreen full-digit boxes or on open metal shelves (and this is already a food cooking zone). If the place under the cooking surface is occupied by a brass cabinet, the pots and frying pan "move" into the lowest box under the working table, in the angular cabinet (with a L-shaped kitchen layout) or an exit column located nearby.

Bau-for-Mattrodno present the product processing zone without its other nearest sinker. The last one today has turned into a multifunctional washing center equipped with a collaneer, cutting boards and other accessories (Blanco, Franke, Schock, Teka, All Germany; Reginox, the Netherlands). Such centers become a comfortable continuation of the cutting zone, take part of its "duties" on themselves.

Now we consider the components of the zones of interest to us in more detail. Forest standard version is a kitchen top working surface (table top), lower and upper cabinets, as well as space (niche) between them.

Field of culinary action

BECKERMANN KCHENOVANTSOVA products processing area (call it working or cutting), intended for all sorts of manipulations with them, including using small household appliances. The more often you do cook, the more space should be left for cutting and preparation of edible supplies. Experts recommend that the work surface width is at least 900-1200mm. On the plane of a width of less than 600mm hostess will be uncomfortable. Wrossy manufacturers depth countertops are usually 600-650mm. The Veverop is made to make a working countertop deeper (up to 1200mm). Ergonomics Ergonomics Sticks The plane on which you are separating products, it is advisable to raise over the entire table top for approximately 10 cm, the cooking panel, on the contrary, omit to 10 cm, and lay the wash slightly above the working surface. Nevertheless, most users prefer to place all the "hot spots" at one height.

Nolte Kchenny hostess would like to have an eternal countertop, which is not afraid of any everyday storms (water, acids, sharp and cutting items). Traditional decide for design kitchen, wooden tops. They remain relevant in our days, despite the huge selection of competitive materials. The table tops from the array (solid or glued) are beautiful, but impractical (truth, subject to restoration): Non-strokes to mechanical damage and exposure to hot items, spots remain on them. It requires special care: the tree does not like an extra moisture, it takes from time to time "undead" and "feed" with special means. Most often, this material is used in the kitchens made in the country style.

The kitchen top of an artificial stone (composite material, which includes a natural stone), in terms of strength, durability and unpretentiousness in operation, perhaps it is not equal. A variety of artificial stone palettes allows you to choose the necessary shade. In addition, the sink can be made from this material, and the same color; It is mounted in the worktop using seamless technology. There is a feeling that the countertop and washing are made of a single piece of stone. The result is in the kitchen there are no uncomfortable transitions from the working surface to the washing (dirt accumulates in these sections, and water is sometimes seeping). The Avoda flowing from the crane into such a sink does not create noise (it is inevitable if you have a sink of stainless steel). The outer edge of the countertop of artificial stone can be processed by following the common idea of ​​the design of the kitchen (a variety of chamfer, cartel IDR).

Photo 1. Blum

Photo 2. Blanco

Photo 3. Bau-for-Mat

Photo 4. "Atlas-suite"

1. The engineers equipped with an ORGA-LINE internal separator system (BLUM) allow you to protect the time and strength of the hostess. They can be retractable from the cabinet for the entire length, immediately see the contents and easily get it.

2. Accessories included in the Ronis Wash Center are an embodiment of an innovative concept and perfectly correspond to each other in design and functions. This is a glass cutting board in the form of a semicircle, as well as a stand with a rotating collander and a container.

3-4. Print and aesthetic countertop can have a cutting board from a set array (3) or be composite (4) built into its end, as in the Ethnic kitchen.

For tabletops, natural stone is also used (granite, marble, sandstone), stainless steel, volcanic lava; The glass includes glass. The most common in Russia are kitchen tops from chipboard, lined with laminate (for example, Egger, Austria), which is distinguished by high wear resistance, a variety of colors and an affordable price. But in Europe, traditional heavy countertops from the chipboard go to the past, and they are replaced by a new generation of working surfaces from modern materials. So, Nolte K.U.Chen uses a plastic polymer as a filling. Thanks to this, Airmaxx countertops are unusually lungs and durable.

A close-up sample kitchen with a linear composition of a cutting area is usually located between the washing and the hob. If the front is quite extended or the kitchen angular, sometimes additional areas appear for manipulations with the "wings" products on the other side of the sink or hob. They can be engaged in some types of work, to put waiting for the heat treatment of the dish (for example, a baking sheet with products from the dough), hot dishes so that they do not interfere with the hostess and did not burn her hands intended for serving the dishes. The oven, located autonomic, should also be close to the preparation zone, especially if it often uses it. In the presence of "Islands", the cutting surface is often removed on it. Or it remains at the wall, and on the "island" place, say, the cooking panel, washing or both.

Let's make some conclusions. Planning the processing zone, follow the logic of your actions and movements. You must be able to make one or two steps, control the preparation of food on the cooking panel and in the oven, come back to cutting, cutting and washing products, put ready-made dishes on the free surface, get something from the refrigerator.

Photo 5. Haecker

Photo 6. Beckermann Kchen

Photo 7. Beckermann Kchen.

Photo 8. "Maria" Model Jazz.

5. The ergonomic and functional top cabinet with the sliding facade is raised directly on the worktop.

6. In such trays, each accessory has its own permanent place.

7. In the "island" composition of the product preparation zone includes several cutting surface fragments (Leonardo kitchen).

8. Takets for household appliances are built directly in the worktop.

Rationality - Engine Comfort

In modern cuisine, the disorderly jet of utensils is opposed to a rational disposal of the internal space. Today you can achieve the size and "filling" of each cabinet and box corresponded to a specific function. There are no single-valued solutions, general principles formulated on the basis of the main provisions of ergonomics exist. So, often used things should be placed in boxes right under the tabletop or on the first tier of the top cabinet. Rarely used by the last shelves of mounted modules (but not only heavy items are dangerous) and at the lower level of floor, for example, in the basebox.

Three truths

"Maria" How to make food cooking more comfortable? For this, planning the product preparation zone, follow the major rules:

1) Use the cuisine in the lower tier boxes, and not cabinets with swing doors and static shelves;

2) at this level it is advisable to apply full-digit volumetric boxes 900 and 1200 mm wide, equipped with high-tech sliding systems and smooth closing;

3) To obtain a maximum of useful space, think good not only the design of the boxes (for example, with high side and rear walls), but also equipped with their organization systems.

Large ergonomic drawers adapted for storage plates - the norm for the kitchen XXIV. Get the heavy and fragile dishes below more convenient than from the upper shelves. On the powerful guide box with a weighty cargo (about 50kg and more) slides easily and silently. At the same time, its internal layout is easy to change, it is enough to rearrange wooden or metal pins so as to fix the plates of a certain size. Manufacturers are increasingly implementing high technologies- for example, electric drive-based boxes (Hettich, Grass). To get a good review, full-digging boxes and other storage systems are used (narrow cassettes-bottles, wide columns, exit angular elements, and in cabinets with swing doors-retractable mesh baskets). The order and large capacity provide high rear and side walls of the boxes, as well as a well-thought-out system of organizational liners.

Floors special importance

The main load in the cutting zone of products falls on the lower cabinets under the table top. In love branded salon, where you will order the kitchen, experts will offer the most diverse modifications of the boxes and the internal "filling" for their inserts-organizers of various functional purposes. This will allow planning an individual workplace and rationally use almost all the space.

How do the boxes usually form? Position under the tabletop by law is occupied by the storage systems of cutlery and accessories. For them produce diverse liners made of metal, plastic, array. Metal organizers look as a component of the box, but the metal walls do not allow changing the cells in places. Plastic liner systems with easily rearranged separators and removable containers (BLUM, GRASS, Hettich) are tightly in the box and are able to adapt to the user's requirements. In this case, plastic inserts supply for drawers of any width: 300, 400, 450, 500, 600, 900, 1000, 1200 mm. They are used by many European and domestic manufacturers.

Photo 9. Miele.

Photo 10. Nolte Kchen

Photo 11. "Stylish kitchens"

Photo 12. Verona Mobili.

9. Organization system with built-in weights.

10. Effect facades must comply with the comfort of the "inner world" of cabinets and boxes (fragment of the kitchen Nova Basic).

11. The bowl insert from the array with the sockets allows you to keep all the working tools under the tabletop.

12.Organizer for storing cutlery and accessories (fragment of the perla kitchen).

The effective system of the organization from the array (most often beech or maple) with nests in which kitchen tools and various accessories have already been laid. Among them, the hostess, loving cook, will find a set of knives, hatchers, a hammer for chops, a press for garlic, pizzaist, a whisk, a sitechko, graters, blades, IDR openers. All this is complete with a box. Such almost flat board-boards attractively looks and pleasant to the touch, besides, they allow you to put items in the nest and remove from them without an unpleasant knock and a stall. The second box from the top of the box is adapted for storing bulk products. It is equipped with system systems with a set of glass containers equipped with hermetic caps, designed for spices, flour, croup, sugar and inserted into the nests. At the same time, you choose any configuration of such a box, any number of nests, and therefore the number of jars of different sizes. But such filling of the box is not an axiom. Maybe you will store small household appliances in it, such as a mixer, blender (for this there is a separate system of organization with rosettes built into the box), cutting boards or something else. If there is enough space under the table top, you can organize a compartment for splitting and cutting boards.

Caphed deep and wide (900-1200mm) boxes below and equipped with partitions, with a dedicated covers for storing covers, it is convenient to keep large pots and frying pan. Today, such boxes are very popular. Their advantage over shelves with swing doors is obvious.

A little about the constructive diversity of the boxes themselves. For example, 16cm contains mobile frames with high-speed frames that allow you to create a second tier. 320mm high drawers can be equipped with partitions for storing various large-sized things, and drawers and retractable bases with a height of 48cm-durable inserts for the most severe items, including beverage containers. The removable metallic second bottom with the holes will help to fit the boxes in the best way that they will keep them. West holes are inserted rubber plugs that do not give products to slide along the bottom of the box. Some of such traffic jams, if desired, remove and install dividers in their form in the form of brackets or columns, which will provide free access to pots, frying pan, IDR plates.

Photo 13. Hettich.

Photo 14. Miele.

Photo 15. "Atlas-suite"

Photo 16. Verona Mobili.

13-14. Locks of drawers can be issued in different ways: new DesignSide adapters allow you to use glass and other fashionable materials (14), traditional rails (15). For high sidewalls preferably adapters.

15-16. There are many possibilities for using space over the working surface: open shelves in niche (16); Outbound cassette-bottle, which from the lower tier "moved" up (17).

Of particular interest is the optimization of space in high multi-tiered boxes at one facade. So, in the upper tier, functionally delimited by two compartments, hold spices and cutlery. The anostic box under it serves to store bottles with vegetable oil and vinegar.

The original Orga Wing organization system offers Hettich- It is also intended for high drawers. There are not only a place for small kitchen utensils, but also extended the side trays for all trifles.

Transverse rails and spatulas-separators (they move along and across) allow you to clearly separate the box, for example, for storing boxes or packages. In order for the contents to fall out, the sidewalls are inserted into between partitions, thanks to which all items in the box (say, covers, frying pan handles) remain in their places. The high rear wall increases the space and helps to use it more appropriate. Such a box, let's say Boxside (BLUM), with transverse and longitudinal separators makes it possible if you wish to add items in the stacks - nothing will fall back. Let me keep even babysitter.

Photo 17. Bau-for-Mat

Photo 18. "Stylish kitchens"

Photo 19. Blum

Photo 20. "Atlas-suite"

17. If the "leash" function is activated, the inner box automatically extends simultaneously with the external, and if the "leash" is not involved, only the main box opens first.

18-20. It is convenient and ergonomically to organize the workspace using modern solutions. Pneumatic microlift, if necessary, lowered the trays of the upper locker directly on the tabletop (18); The system of holders for jars with spices will allow them to take them to the place of cutting of products (19); On a simple, but comfortable shelf in the kitchen "Paolo" will be all the necessary (20).

Your departure!

Part of the lower cabinets are ergonomic bottled cassettes (minimum width - 150mm). Ukessebhmer is real exit storage rooms, open from all sides to see and access. Vinegar, butter or sauce is easy to remove with one hand movement. Mobile cross separators provide bottle resistance, and the bath in which they are inserted, made of stainless steel, and it is convenient to clean it. Power out of such boxes can be provided for the storage space for cutting boards.

The angular layout of the kitchen has a lot of advantages, but under one condition: if you can make an inaccessible and therefore useless corner is available and useful. For this, a variety of exit structures have been created. There is a LE MANS slot system (KESSEBHMER), which are fully extended from the closet and are also equipped with protective sides. "Magic Corner" Magic Corner (Kessebhmer) is convenient for storing basic dishes and withstands high weight. Carousel round shelves of the TurnMotion of the same manufacturer turn on the total axis by 360 and allow compactly place bulk items (pans, wide bowls of IT.P.). When opening the Wari Corner (Vauth-Sagel), the baskets automatically unfold to the side, providing free access to the content. By purchasing an angular cabinet with Metabox Fittings (Blum), you will be able to get even to the farthest lowest locations. Avtrenenny Orga-Line separators of the same manufacturer provide ample opportunities for the "smart" space organization.

Photo 21. Blum

Photo 22. Virs.

Photo 23. Blum

Photo 24. "Atlas-suite"

21.There cabinet door during operation can be kept open.

22. Support workplace provides a cutting board built into the table top, the continuation of the kitchen top to the right of the cooking panel and the combination of drawers and open shelves (ELISA kitchen).

23-24. Ergonomic solutions for storage of dishes: ORGA-LINE plates (there are up to 12 of them, and they will not slide and tipped), which, when serving the table, it is easy to remove with dishes and transfer (23); The location of the drying for the plate is not at the top, but at the bottom (fragment of the kitchen "Morellla") (24).

Between tiers

It is convenient when in the kitchen frequently used ingredients (spices, orders of IDR) and items are at hand, but at the same time have a permanent place and do not clutter the cutting surface. This can be achieved correctly equipped the space between the upper and lower cabinets. Wall elements allow you to effectively use walls and niches between the two main kitchen tiers. One of the most common solutions - Relating (tube). This is a simple and comfortable design with attached items. If you prefer open storage, Reheling will solve the problem. You can hang a lot of things on it: accessories that you use when cooking food, a paper towel holder, a mounted rack for knives, a shelves for spices and bulk products and even a cookbook. Such wall elements release Kessebhmer and VIBO. Universal steel hooks will help to place a half, shimmer, blades, whites, grater, cutting board. Continuing the list of devices expanding the "territory" above the working surface, it is worth mentioning the supports for bottles and glasses, as well as for cans with bulk products, a small drying for plates. For the kitchens in the classic style, they offer rails from brass, for modern and steel and alloys. When placing mounted elements, steel, glass, wood, aluminum are used. The originally viewing the rails from transparent or colored glass with backlight from the inside.

One of the advantages of the railing is it can be installed where it is most needed. True, in minimalist cuisines, for example, the abundance of open accessories does not correspond to the "genre" style. However, the cuisine in the style of country is such an artistic disorder "to face".

Lockers with blinds type of blinds are a practical alternative to the cabinet with the door. They are put directly on the desktop and often equip electrical sockets. This is an ideal place to store small household appliances. There are new ideas for using free space under the top cabinet, such as Cosario tray (Hettich).

Photo 25. "Stylish kitchens"

Photo 26. "Maria"

Photo 27. "Maria"

Photo 28. Bau-for-Mat

25.Space Corner (BLUM) is the optimal use of the corner space. Such geometry of drawers provides quick access to the contents and does not leave the hidden places.

26-28. Ease of exit storage systems equipped with practical metal capacities allow you to rationally and comfortably use hard-to-reach zones: in the system "tandem" baskets attached to the facade, pull out other tanks from the depth of the cabinet (26); The Mesh Trays of the Wari Corner design is easily accessible and foreseeable thanks to the user convenient to the user when opening (27); Rotary-retractable mechanism Le MANS (28).

How much is a good snap?

The answer is unequivocal: it is not suiced. For increased comfort, you always have to pay. So, the system "Tandem" (KESSEBHMER) for a wall cabinet costs approximately 5 thousand rubles. One retractable basket for a cabinet with swing doors is about 1500 rubles. The most inexpensive among the angular elements of the "Carousel" (Kessebhmer) is approximately 4500 rubles. The TurnMotion construction of the same manufacturer will cost an average of 15-16 thousand rubles.

The price of the Tandembox drawer (BLUM) without a "filling" (width is 450mm, the height of the Tsargi 68mm) is about 1400 rubles. ORGA-LINE tray for a box whose width is 400-500mm, cost 2 thousand rubles; 900-1000mm- 4300rub.; 1000-1200mm- 6 thousand rubles. For clarity, we give a specific example. For the P-shaped set of 234016401600mm without fittings and "smart filling" you need to give 84570 rubles. Aza Accessories, organization systems and blinds for one of the Penal sections that make the kitchen functional and ergonomic, - 40 thousand rubles. But divide this amount by 10 years of daily comfort, and you will understand: Is it worth much to save on equipment and modern technologies?

Get up to heaven

HettichHPoscolka The main load falls onto the lower tier, the top is made lightweight. Here most often stored spices, seasonings, products (sugar, salt, flour, butter bottles, vinegar IT.D.); Capacities required for cooking (MISS IDR); Perhaps small household appliances that did not find a place below. The replacement doors come to the replacement doors more comfortable folding - they can be kept open during operation. There was an opportunity to replace the static shelves with retractable baskets inoxa and Keshebhmer acting on the principle of tandem, as well as the Cargo IQ exit capacity (Hettich) embedded in the upper cabinet with swing doors. The width of the Cargo IQ is small - only 105mm, and the length of the guide is 260 mm. It is convenient to keep spices, oil, sauces and other supplies that are constantly used in cooking. But whatever compact your kitchen, do not overload the top tier. Entrance to wall elements serve shelves. In the "island" kitchen to hang them out well to the ceiling above the separately worthwheeling block. The injective cuisine is relevant to the French shelves, compact open designs under the bottom of the top cabinet.

The editorial board thanks the company "Atlas-Lux", "Maria", IBTM, "Stylish Kitchens", Verona Mobili, representative office of Nolte Kchen for help in preparing the material.