Unscientific Sink Survey

[pulltostart]

Nothing scientific about this - just curious to know (the old "inquiring minds" thing).  Three simple questions -

 

1.  Do you have a single-bowl kitchen sink or a double-bowl kitchen sink?

2.  For those of you with a double-bowl kitchen sink, which tends to be your go-to basin, the right or left?

3.  Again for those of you with a double-bowl kitchen sink, are you right or left-handed?

 

lawrence

 

[kb0nes]

Double bowl stainless, equal size basins

Main basin on left, the one with the Disposer

I am right handed, but the layout was decided by the disposer location due to existing plumbing.

 

[mattl]

Only double bowl, can't stand single. Right handed. Right bowl has garbage disposal, left bowl is used for washing dishes pots and pan in deep suds hot water. Dishwasher is to the right of the sink, so I'd guess that's why the right bowl gets the most use.

 

[parunner58]

When we did our kitchen over last year I opted for Quartz counters and a giant single bowl Swanstone sink. I have Calphalon cookware and it is much easier to wash them in the giant sink. When we bought the house 4 years ago we got rid of the small double stainless sinks and put in one double wide stainless one.

 

[jakeseacrest]

Double bowl stainless with equal size bowls. Left one has the garbage disposal. The right bowl is only used for holding dirty dishes waiting for the dishwasher. I use the left bowl for pretty much everything....food prep, rinsing, washing my hands.

My kitchen is a galley with the sink at the end. The right side bowl is almost up against the wall so it is pretty inconvenient to use. I've only had double bowls my whole life so I don't know if I could adjust to using a single bowl.

To the people here with single bowls does your garbage get mixed up with the dirty dishes? I just picture prepping vegetables and having potato and carrot peels falling over dishes in a single sink.

 

[foraloysius]

Small kitchen, single bowl. Dirty dishes go into the dishwasher straight away.

 

[whirlcool]

We have a double bowl stainless, the right hand side is deeper then the left side. But we hardly ever wash anything. Everything we have that's not aluminum goes in the dishwasher. The garbage disposal is on the right hand side of the sink.

We'd like to get one of those double bowl sinks that has a giant right hand side and a small left side and put the disposal on the left side for disposal purposed.

We use the right hand side of the sink. A dish rack stays in the left hand side for drying.

 

[twintubdexter]

interesting question

Main Kitchen sink is called Kohler "Efficency" large/small. Smaller sink on the right has disposal and used 99% of the time, probably because my over-sized dishpan is in the larger sink. Call me old fashioned. I'm left handed.

 

There is a very deep Kohler laundry sink in the kitchen island which I rarely use. It has a built-in scrub board. I'm not that old fashioned.

 

[vacbear58]

Bowl and a half - with single drainer

I have what is a very common arrangement which is one large bowl, one smaller & shallower bowl (this is where the disposer normally goes although they are not so common here) with a single drainer. In the UK it is normal to have a drainer integral with the sink - sinks on their own are the exception rather than the rule.

The arrangement I have can be fitted into a 60cm (2ft) cupboard and a large hole is cut out of the work top to fit the whole thing into - this allows for a washing machine or dishwasher to fit under the drainer if necessary - the waste fittings normally have provision for the drain hose for one and sometimes two appliances. The picture below is like my sink I have although on mine the bowl is on the right and drainer on the left and the larger bowl has a conventional plug hole

I love this arrangement and would not go back to a single bowl for any money, it is ideal for draining sauce pans/emptying the tea pot and is great for a small amount of washing up (say a couple of mugs and plates) or when you want a small amount of water to wipe over the work tops.

It is usual in this country to have some sort of rack to sit on the drainer, I use a basket designed for the task (Franke) which allows you to stack up plates or pans and can be kept in the large sink bowl when not in use. I also have a wooden chopping boards which fit over both the sink and the drainer (again Franke)

Al

 

[iheartmaytag]

Double Stainless Steel
Garbage disposal on Right side
Right side is the washing side
Right handed.

Dont' know if it is so much handedness or Garbage Disposal placement, I think it's more of a habit. When I worked in restaurants we always washed right, moved to the left and that's just the way I do it.

Now my mother also right handed, uses the Left side to wash and washes Left to right. Of course the dishwasher does most of the washing, I just hand wash the pots and pans.

 

[luxflairguy]

One 33" wide single bowl. How else do you soak a 9 x 13 casserole or a half sheet pan? On the counter?

 

[ea56]

We have a double stainless steel kitchen sink, both bowls are the same size. The dishwasher is on the left and we use the left side for washing pots and pans, hand washing, cleaning produce, ect. and have a small Rubbermaid dish drainer in the right for hand washed items, which are few. Both of us are right handed. We used to have a garbage disposal in the left sink, but it was seldom used and looked like the black hole to hell, so in Feb. I took it out and replaced it with a regular drain. I like this set up much better.

 

[firedome]

80-20 stainless

by Franke (German) with Grohe hi-rise single arm control spigot. Large side on L for pan/utensil washing, small side on R for veg soaking/cleaning/prep. No Disposall.

 

[countryford]

This is our current setup. The right bowl has the disposal. We use the disposal(right) sink for the soapy water where we wash the dishes. Place them into the left sink. Since we dry our dishes right away, we don't have a drying rack.

 

I don't like the lack of  counter space to the left of the sink. If it were up to me, I'd go from left to right. I think the two factors why we go from right to left is because 1. the disposal is in the right sink and 2. counter space on the right to hold the dirty dishes while we are washing them.

 

Our old house had a 3 bowl sink. The third sink was shallow and we mainly used it for the utensils. It was right in the middle of the other two bowls.  There we went from left to right.

 

We are both right handed.

 

[norgeway]

I have a

2 bowl Kohler porcelain sink that is a surface mount and I DESPISE it, I want a old style Hudee rim stainless, preferably a Carlton with the Disposobowl on one side, I wash in the right keep a drying rack in the left.Whoever dreamed up a sink that sets a good half inch or more above the counter was a IDIOT!!!

 

[kevin313]

I have a single-bowl stainless steel sink so I can wash and rinse with any hand I choose ;-)

 

[wringingwet]

single bowl farm sink in white fire clay
everything goes right into the dishwasher
Compost all vegetable material
Dogs eat the rest

Philippe

 

[lordkenmore]

Every sink I've ever used has been double bowl, and all but one have been stainless steel.

Usage depends on the kitchen. Generally, the question for me is where is the best location for a drying rack? That side becomes the "rinse" bowl, and whatever remains is the "wash bowl."

Although wash right, rinse left seems "more right" simply because that was how it was in the house I grew up in.

 

[lordkenmore]

>One 33" wide single bowl. How else do you soak a 9 x 13 casserole or a half sheet pan? On the counter?

I guess there's always the bathtub. LOL