Thai kitchens

**stroller** · 13-06-2006, 12:32 AM

Well, we've just done up the kitchen, changed from this traditional wood-fired ricesteamer:

, which consists of a clay pot which can also be used as a grill with charcoal, with a removable enamel top, fitting for a pot with water, sealed with an old cloth to accomodate a wooden jar with lid, in which the sticky rice is steamed:

, to this modern stainless steel encased cooker with an exhaust pipe, the pride of the Mae Ban:

Well, we still get the steam, but not much other fume in the kitchen:

**Fabian** · 13-06-2006, 12:36 AM

So maybe in 20 years you will upgrade to gas?

**danbo** · 13-06-2006, 12:38 AM

Looks like someone sold you a toilet from a train

Worth it though, sticky rice is the best.

**stroller** · 13-06-2006, 12:40 AM

We also replaced this cooker:

with this one:

It's all high-tec in the Stroller household now, with these impressive ceramic grits spreading the heat evenly:

What's your kitchen like, any different from back home?

**danbo** · 13-06-2006, 12:45 AM

What's your kitchen like, any different from back home?

I only use a microwave in the UK - In LoS I generally stay away from the kitchen, but from what I've seen it's all cooked up in a wok....on gas I think....I've never asked.

**dirtydog** · 13-06-2006, 12:50 AM

It never ceases to amaze me how some people can have such little taste in color schemes and the colors they choose for their house, I assume and hope that you didn't choose those ceramic tiles stroller

**stroller** · 13-06-2006, 12:59 AM

I did, and believe me, it wasn't easy, had to travel to the provincial capital to get something funky and different from the stuff the local shop sells.

I would have had more variety and psychedelic patterns, but had to compromise with the missus and the builder.

**dirtydog** · 13-06-2006, 01:08 AM

Originally Posted by stroller

I would have had more variety and psychedelic patterns,

Now if there are any children reading this, this just goes to show how alchohol and drug abuse can fok up your whole life, so if any of you kids out there get offered alchohol or drugs just show them the above pictures and tell the dealer you don't want to end up like this

**stroller** · 13-06-2006, 01:15 AM

Mods!!!

I'm being insulted.

**Fabian** · 13-06-2006, 02:21 AM

No, he is absolutely right.

**Boon Mee** · 13-06-2006, 03:21 AM

Originally Posted by stroller

What's your kitchen like, any different from back home?

We've got a lot of SubZero equipment in our kitchen but thinking of upgrading.

**Marmite the Dog** · 13-06-2006, 01:40 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

It never ceases to amaze me how some people can have such little taste in color schemes and the colors they choose for their house, I assume and hope that you didn't choose those ceramic tiles stroller

I agree. I've seen some of your installations. Or are they blamed on the customer?

**Butterfly** · 13-06-2006, 01:56 PM

Stroller, where did you get those tiles ? I hope you stole them from a local site or they were given to you for free

I liked the old kitchen. Very nice.

**Airportwo** · 13-06-2006, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by stroller

I'm being insulted.

With taste as above are insults possible?

**stroller** · 13-06-2006, 02:14 PM

I live in a small place, even in the prov. capital there's only a limited choice of remnants of discontinued lines at rock bottom prices.

**lom** · 13-06-2006, 04:04 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

It never ceases to amaze me how some people can have such little taste in color schemes and the colors they choose for their travel bags

Matching pattern stroller, isn't it ?

https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...oom_resize.JPG

**dirtydog** · 13-06-2006, 05:03 PM

Now now Lom, enough of that, that is my lucky pulling bag, travelled all over Asia with me has that bag.

Anyway getting back on topic here are some pictures of my main kitchen, now the only reason I call this my main kitchen is due to the amount of utensils it has in it, but this kitchen is probably used once per month at most, infact most of the gadgets I have for it have never been used, lovely sets of boxed up frying pans and all the good stuff like that.

**NickA** · 13-06-2006, 05:08 PM

^nice to see you keep it clean and well maintained!!

**Airportwo** · 13-06-2006, 05:16 PM

Whats with the Microwave, you know how bad those things are?

**dirtydog** · 13-06-2006, 05:31 PM

Yep it is pretty disgusting in there, this place is way too big and has way too much rubbish in, just thinking about it I have over 30 chairs and settees in this place, some are like antique ones that I was gonna renovate, why delude myself, I aint never gonna bother doing them up, but I just can't bring myself to throw them away, infact I just counted the furniture items in this room, 25 foking items of furniture in one small room, and they are all either filled with junk or have junk on top of them, I think it maybe time to go for fire insurance and have a big barby

**NickA** · 13-06-2006, 05:41 PM

You got the wrong beans as well, the ones with the blue stripe are better!

**dirtydog** · 13-06-2006, 05:45 PM

Anyway getting back to strollers abortion of a kitchen, now obviously if my staff had choosen that particular color scheme for a farangs kitchen I would just have them executed, but apart from that take a look at the placement of the tiles, yes you can see stroller has helped them out with his money saving ideas, look guys, he said, you can use those off cuts on the bit where the hob will be going, yep stroller saved himself a couple of hundred baht, so lets move onto what went wrong with this tiling job and what we can learn from this.

1; stroller got to choose the tiles.
2; the 2 raised points either side of the hob should have had full tiles and the cuts should have been done at the far ends of the counter.
3; stroller obviously had a misspent youth of taking way too many drugs.
4; the lower point where the hob stands the tiles should have been centered, ie work from the middle to the outside edge, now as we can see his awful 70s style horrid bird tiles are not centered up.
5; as a closing summary if stroller ever visits your house, DO NOT LET HIM INSIDE", he may have some redecoration ideas and you may fall for them and be ridiculed for the rest of your life.

**Butterfly** · 13-06-2006, 05:55 PM

actually it's kinda nice in a hippie kind of way

**Airportwo** · 13-06-2006, 05:56 PM

Do you have a tiled bathroom that may interest us Stroller?

**Rigger** · 13-06-2006, 05:57 PM

I just got a quote on the new extensions to the house modern Thai kitchen so I can have my western kitchen back and motorcycle work shop as well as a double length carport 460,000 bht, It seems a good price as I figured on between 400k to 600k bht. The builder is the same guy that built the front part of the house so I know his work and is of a high standard for isaan
The work shop and kitchen will cover about 66 sq meters and the carport about 50 sq meters. 3m roller door on the work shop side.
Pitty I have to wait until the end of the rainy season before they can start to build
So what do you think is this a good price ?

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