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A kitchen is a room used for food preparation. A modern kitchen is typically equipped with a stove or microwave oven and has a sink with water on tap for cleaning food and dishwashing. Modern kitchens often also feature a dishwasher. Some installations to store food usually also are present, either in the form of an adjacent pantry or more commonly cabinets and a refrigerator. Although the main function of a kitchen is cooking, it can be the center of other activities as well, especially within homes, depending on its size, fur ...

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The development of the kitchen has been intricately and intrinsically linked with the development of the cooking range or stove. Until the 18th century, open fire was the sole means of heating food, and the architecture of the kitchen reflected this. When technical advances brought new ways to heat food in the 18th and 19th centuries, architects took advantage of newly-gained flexibility to bring fundamental changes to the kitchen. Water on tap only became gradually available during industrialization; before, water had to be collected from the nearest well and heated in the kitche ...

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Domestic kitchen design per se is a relatively recent discipline. The first ideas to optimize the work in the kitchen go back to Catherine Beecher's A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1843, revised and republished together with her sister Harriet Beecher Stowe as The American Woman's Home in 1869). Beecher's "model kitchen" propagated for the first time a systematic design based on early ergonomics. The design included regular shelves on the walls, ample work space, and dedicated storage areas for various food items. Beecher even separated the functions of preparing food and cooking it altogether by moving ...

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Kitchen, Kitchen - The evolution of the kitchen, Kitchen - Early history, Kitchen - Colonial American kitchens, Kitchen - Industrialization, Kitchen - Rationalization, Kitchen - Technicalization, Kitchen - Free for all, Kitchen - Domestic kitchen planning, Kitchen - Other kitchen types, Kitchen - Kitchens around the world

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Restaurant and canteen kitchens found in hotels, hospitals, army barracks and similar establishments are generally (in developed countries) subject to public health laws. They are inspected periodically by public-health officials, and forced to close if they don't meet hygienic requirements mandated by law. Canteen kitchens (and castle kitchens) were often the places where new technology was used first. For instance, Benjamin Thompson's "energy saving stove", an early 19th century fully-closed iron stove using one fire to heat several pots, was designed for large kitchens; another thirty years pa ...

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Kitchen, Kitchen - The evolution of the kitchen, Kitchen - Early history, Kitchen - Colonial American kitchens, Kitchen - Industrialization, Kitchen - Rationalization, Kitchen - Technicalization, Kitchen - Free for all, Kitchen - Domestic kitchen planning, Kitchen - Other kitchen types, Kitchen - Kitchens around the world

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