Excessive costs for the kitchen?!

Of course the pot is hot then. The plate just doesn't stay hot for as long because it only warms up through the residual heat of the pot...

Of course the pot is hot then. The plate just doesn’t stay hot for long because it only warms up from the residual heat of the pot...

But not so hot that anything could stew.

Ok, I never let it come to that.

The pot with vegetables, potatoes, etc. is not so hot, the pan with fat after the pancakes or potato fritters is much hotter and not every stone slab can handle that

I also find it amazing what blooms this topic has produced.

The pot with vegetables, potatoes, etc. is not that hot, the pan with fat after the pancakes or potato fritters is much hotter and not every stone slab can handle that

I would also be very careful with that. Our kitchen builder said the planned ceramic countertop can withstand a lot, but he wouldn't put a hot pot or even a pan on it. Which we don't care about, since we always have a cutting board underneath out of habit anyway.
I also think it has to be clear that a kitchen always corresponds to the wishes (not exactly demands).
We love cooking. Our kitchen is really used extremely often and intensively. I love trying out things, gladly even very elaborate ones. From our point of view, it is only logical to give this part of the house a high priority.

I just remembered the "you only build once" thing, which could fit with the person who said that a kitchen was happily chosen for 11,500, and then after visiting the showroom decided to spend 19,000. I understand that as last-minute panic

you surely mean us there. But it had nothing to do with "you only build once," it was simply that we had not properly estimated our wishes in advance or didn’t know what great options were out there.

1. We had planned with a ceramic hob and an island hood – it ended up being an induction cooktop from Berbel with downdraft. It bothered me from the start to have that ugly hood hanging right in front of my face in the room, but I didn’t know there were such cool solutions --> +3500€ to the 11,500.

2. We first planned a Häcker Classic with cassette fronts. But then I read that these are just foils. With Systemat there are the same fronts fully lacquered and with a better grid. --> +1500€

3. My wife discovered in the showroom that there are refrigerators with a 1°C compartment. --> +800€ (from a normal Siemens to a Miele with 1°C compartment)

4. We didn’t find a nice wooden countertop to go with the white cassette fronts. Spatula concrete would have been the closest, we had that in the 11,500 variant, but it didn’t impress us. We didn’t want a wood tone because we already have wood-look tiles. --> we then found an amazing color among the quartz composite countertops that fits perfectly and allows the sink and cooktop to be installed flush --> +3000€

and bam, you’re at 20k instead of 11.5k. None of the decisions were made because of "you only build once." The 11.5k plan simply didn’t convince us in these points, but it probably would have still resulted in a great kitchen, I admit that.