Yes, except for two things:
Simple things that do many things are very important to reducing the total of things in your kitchen.
All I see is plastic. That's bad, especially your beloved kettle. (My parents have the same one. I utterly detest appliances that beep.)
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My kettle is almost entirely metal. The parts that aren't are pretty solid. I've had it for years and will probably use a stove top one when it breaks. Avoiding plastics entirely is almost impossible. I'll spend energy doing it where I can, but I'm not losing sleep when I can't.
As for the water machines, I would buy an all metal one if you made it. Until then, I have to go with the best thing for my needs that is available. I'll take plastic over what my water would otherwise be. Same with my shower filters.
That's entirely sensible.
I'm just a bit nutty.
No I get it. I try my best but it's fucking hard out there lol
That's how I ended up with a metal kettle and glass pour over (with metal basket) for coffee. The coffee makers all had weird plastic smell/taste (and I'm skeptical of hot water through plastic anyway. I found one from Bunn I think but it was industrial and ridiculous for my kitchen. 😂
Yup.
The home I build won't have plastic in the water system. That's going to be one of the hardest systems to build without plastic. And expensive.
Copper?
I don't really care about the waste water side, but there is probably longevity concern. Plus you don't have to worry so much when installing cabinets and goofy shit like that. I've seen cabinet screws cause leaks in plastic pipes. Good times. I'd rather have metal too. I want the bulk of spending to go to the really important stuff (plumbing, electrical, etc). Everything else comes last for me. Might mean a smaller house, which is fine.
Copper and stainless.
I care about the discharge, too, since I will be on septic, and that all goes to the land. It matters more than ever before what the inputs are to where I live. This is a radical responsibility. There's no remote processing done on waste. You deal with it yourself. It will take time and effort to learn, but I think that is worth the lesser to non-existant so-called convenience.
Yeah good point. I'm not sure how much the pipes actually affect cold water. Or hot for that matter. I'm just assuming it probably has some shenanigans going on. If nothing else I absolutely can taste it in many coffee makers. I almost puked the last time I drank from one. It was heinous. Probably the cheapest shit they could buy.
And I simply disagree. I used to do the "many things" appliances and they never did anything well or lasted very long. Plus, I hardly ever used most of the things they did. My kitchen has very little in it now and I'm not missing anything. I never said everyone has the same needs I do.
this is why I have yet to pull the trigger on buying a cherry pitter. it just does one thing and it's mostly plastic.
But at the rate that taro devours cherries, I'm getting tired to cutting them up for him.
Tools are good when they make sense and save time. A knife does just one thing. Cuts. So does a fork or spoon. It wouldn't make sense for ME because I hardly ever eat cherries.
