Do you use a waste bowl?
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Comments (33)This is one of those things that's a personal preference. Like a few others above, we prefer a 2-bowl sink. We deliberately selected it despite everyone saying not to. We have never regretted our choice! The key to a 2-bowl sink, as others have also stated, is the sizing. Unless your sink is enormous, don't get one with equal-size bowls -- 70/30 and 60/40 work much better. The unequal bowls allow you to have one bowl that is large and one that is small and you use them according to your need at the time. I sometimes wonder if the people who so adamantly loathe a double-bowl were only exposed to those 50/50 sinks -- even in a 36" wide sink base, they're too small or too large for the majority of sink tasks. Another consideration: If you have two sinks in your kitchen, you have, in essence, two bowls to work with -- the cleanup sink and the prep sink. This doesn't mean that if you have two sinks you should get a single-bowl cleanup sink nor does it mean that if you have only one sink you should get a double-bowl sink. It's still a matter of personal preference! Three sizes are key... Sink base size -- In my opinion, if you are going to get a double-bowl sink, the minimum sink base size should be 36". Any smaller, and the bowls are going to be too small for most tasks. Sink size -- The larger the sink itself, the larger the bowls can be. Bowl sizes -- The bowls should be unequal in size, but each size should still be useful. If the smaller bowl is too small to be useful for anything, then you will hate it. Ditto if the larger bowl is too small for larger tasks. In our case... Our sink base is 36" wide Our sink's overall dimensions are 35-1/8" x 20-7/8" (Ticor 405D) The interior dimensions of the bowls are: -- Large bowl: 21-3/8" x 18-3/4" x 9"D -- Small bowl: 10.5" x 15-7/8" x 7"D It works perfectly for our needs: The larger bowl is large enough to fit (flat) every pot/pan/cookie sheet I own as well as my vent hood's squirrel cage insert and all my refrigerator shelves and drawers (except the 36" wide one, which wouldn't in the vast majority of single-bowl sinks either). We didn't have room to store a dish bin when not in use and I didn't want it sitting on the counter or in the sink when not in use -- it's clutter! My DH uses the small bowl to soak silverware w/o having to fill the big side. It's also useful if the large bowl is filled with dishes, b/c the small bowl is usually empty or close to empty. The large side is for stacking dirty dishes if the DW isn't available. It holds a lot of dirty dishes! It's also big enough to clean refrigerator components, etc. Both fit all my pots for filling, although I usually use my prep sink for that task since it's closer to the cooktop and it has a pull out faucet instead of a pull down (a pull out works better than pull down when I'm filling a pot on the counter so I don't have to lift it up and out of the sink.) I have occasionally wondered about the low-divide for that rare instance when I clean the 36"W refrigerator shelf in the sink (I usually wipe it down in-place b/c it's so bulky), but it's not enough to make me unhappy with what we have -- I am very happy with my 2-bowl sink!...See MoreDo YOU have a favorite bowl for displaying fruit? Do tell.....
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