- Joined
- May 22, 2008
- Messages
- 16,075
- Reaction score
- 747
Disaster - exactly!! Our first year we had 2 college students doing their student teaching. One morning one of the girls was in the kitchen with her boyfriend slicing bagels to toast them. DH gets a knock on the door to our side of the house and it is the boyfriend asking if we have any band aids. DH goes into the kitchen and she is bleeding ! He grabs a towelto put over her finger and yells for the boyfriend to grab a stool for her - she was about to pass out. He got her wrapped with a towel and told boyfriend to take her to ER. She ended up getting plastic surgery on that finger. That was the last time anyone ever used our kitchen. Fortunately the parents did not go after us.As an innkeeper who has her own kitchen but an unfortunately open inn kitchen, I cannot agree more with everyone that you do not want guests in your kitchen. Allowing guest use of the kitchen can result in disaster.
What starts off as a 'help yourself to a soda' turns into a couple wanting to know where the big pot is for the lobsters they just bought to cook in your kitchen. (You can sub your local shellfish for the lobster, but you get what I mean.)
You know how you would act in someone else's house. Not everyone thinks the way you do.
If there is space in the room, add a small dorm fridge and single serve coffee maker. Or put that in the dining room. Plate up some snacks and leave them somewhere other than the kitchen.
Yes, it is very hard to draw these lines for US guests when you have traveled/lived in Europe and see how it is done there. As with kids, it's easier to lighten up than tighten up..
Just an example to back up what Maddie saidabout possible disaster in the kitchen.