[dennisw]

Is Formica even an option today in new construction? Glad to hear you like it too 

Cooking, or the ability to cook, brings in an entirely new dimension. I can’t tell you how many women I know that couldn’t cook a decent meal to save their souls. Oh sure, they have a dish or two they use to impress people, but real cooking (i.e., biscuits, canning, bread, pot roast, etc.) is several leagues outside their experience. Still, the demand for commercial appliances and tools has never been higher.

You are talking about the old time womanly art of cooking for the family. It's a rush rush affair these days, with some exceptions of course. It's prestigious to buy commercial grade and gives bragging rights. But most commercial installations in the home will be (vastly) under utilized. They just feed fantasies of being a master of the kitchen arts. It's like those very expensive cookbooks with fantastic photography, that are only looked at, but from it never more than one or two recipes are ever utilized

[WorkingClassFilth]

Yep, I’m talking about a civilized family where roles are defined and harmony is found at the dinner table. I pity my fellow Americans that don’t know that the soul and body are fed at the family dinner table. Posturing is thin soup indeed.