Second small sink on kitchen island

I will probably extend the island by another 20 centimeters, then there will be 80 cm to the left of the cooktop. The width of the island is just under 120 cm, I think that will work out.

The small sinks are practical when you want to quickly rinse small parts or pour out small amounts. For coffee machines, for example. The question for me would be how often I actually do that when cooking and whether I want to give up valuable space for it. For example, I wouldn’t pour a pot of pasta into a small sink, and also large knives and boards can quickly splash water all over the area around small sinks. Then you also need a towel, a dishcloth, which are handy but not always in sight. In the coming days while cooking, I would ask myself whether a small second sink makes the work easier, or if one has just spent too much time on Pinterest. Want or need?

I always wonder how my fellow countrymen here in Australia can prepare a meal with large open kitchens when the cooktop is installed 90% against the wall. When I tell them that in Germany you apparently always have/need spectators and that’s why the cooktop is on the island, they laugh about it and don’t understand.

Do you always cook only on the cooktop? Never anything in the oven, air fryer, steam cooker, Thermomix, etc.?

When I do something on the cooktop, then with a timer. I’m not going to stand there for x minutes watching the pasta. I know exactly how long it takes for the water to get hot with a timer, put in the pasta and salt, start the timer, and I’m gone.

What would really bother me about this kitchen are the long distances. From the fridge to the sink you walk many meters, the distances between the rows are very large, which in the end also looks rather odd. The next counter space from the fridge is about 150cm away on the island or the window side.

Where do you put groceries, e.g. for the fridge? 80cm next to the cooktop for 5 people isn’t much, okay, behind the cooktop there is still space. A child can easily knock something from the groceries onto the cooktop. I have a “naked island,” 2 x 1.2m.

What purpose do the surfaces to the right and left of the sink, 1 x 1.6m and 1 x 2.2m, serve if the most important is actually the small (2.5m) island for 5 people? You probably won’t be able to prepare pizzas there for 5 people.

the line spacing is very large,

I agree with you!

and I'm gone.

Where to? What do you use the time of x minutes cooking pasta for?

I don’t just stand there for x minutes watching the pasta.

I don’t watch the pasta while it’s cooking, but the sauce is tasted or still prepared. You don’t cook the things one after the other, but simultaneously. And when the pasta is cooking, the sauce is simmering, then the Pecorino is grated and the white wine tasted :)