Use my code FELI to get $5 off your delicious, high protein Magic Spoon cereal by clicking this link: sponsr.is/magicspoon_feli ▸Have you noticed any other differences between German and American kitchens? 🤔 Or what's unique about kitchens in YOUR country? :)

Garage fridge is usually just the last iteration of the kitchen fridge. Like we move the old one to the garage

As an American country boy, we always had both the "deep freezer", aka the long, low chest freezer, and a garage fridge. The deep freezer was for storing meats and stuff long-term such as venison from a deer we hunted. The garage fridge was mainly used for beverages like beer or soda as the country garage was used for a lot of cook outs and get togethers and was more convenient then constantly going inside. That said, my mother's side were German stock so my Grandmother always had a breadbox and kettle etc. And seeing these things always remind me of her ❤

“NO KITTIES ON THE COUNTER 😠” Izzy proceeds to jump on counter 😂 like a normal cat that ignores their owner 😭

Elder Millennial here-, we just had a single fridge/freezer combo (no ice dispenser) in my childhood home. When I bought my house, the previous owners were all "Hey, do you want the fridge in the garage too, or should we take that with us?" So I do have a 2nd fridge, somewhat careworn, but it is not plugged in very often. I did plug it in to temporarily store all my food from the kitchen fridge when I was having the house's original 90s carpeting replaced with LVP. After that was done, and I transferred the food back to the kitchen, the garage fridge serves as overflow for things that I buy in bulk that I donate to the food pantry, but don't want to leave out in the open in the garage until I have enough of a load to fill my trunk and drop off.

As a Swiss: It's very weird to move the kitchen. Our Appartments here always come with the kitchen permamently installed

Growing up in the U.S. the kitchen was where you socialized. Playing games, Coffee clatch, do homework

OMG the way the oven door opens then slides in at 14:19, and the rack slides out! That is so freaking cool! I had to rewatch it several times. I'd love an oven like that!

gas stoves have the advantage that you can turn off the heat and the heat is gone, just like induction. The coil plates stay hot and you have to move the pot/pan to stop it from cooking even though the stove is turned off already.

I’m from the Midwest-Kansas City-we prefer to have to a gas stovetop. We have very icy, cold winters. Sometimes the ice will break the power lines; if so, we still have the stove to help to keep warm.

In rural areas in germany the fridge/freezer-situation is quite similar to the US. My parents have 3 freezers, 2 of them are those trunk things and multiple fridges. Not all of them are running all the time. The freezers are necessary if you get a whole pig or half a cow once a year.

American kitchens have an open floor plan thanks to Frank Loyd Wright. In the 50s he wanted to open up the kitchen and bring "Mother" out in the rest of the home so that she would be included in daily life, and not have her shackled away in the kitchen. Unfortunately the opposite result followed. Kitchens being notoriously active places with lots of dirty things going on, Mom got stuck in the kitchen most of the day keeping it clean as anyone and everyone could see right into it.

The flat I’m living in the uk has a small kitchen which is its own room with a door. My fridge is actually in its own room just off the hall. Like a cupboard. It was like that when I moved in. So I added shelves to the room and turned it into a pantry.

I always found it easier to adjust the heat with a gas stove, not an electric one.

My brother moved from Chicago to New York. Here in Chicago, we went shopping once a week, stocked up for an entire week. So you'd grab a shopping cart and fill it to the top. In New York, everyone takes public transportation and every neighborhood has a little store within walking distance. My brother and his wife soon found out that New Yorkers shopped almost daily on the way home and used hand baskets instead of shopping carts. So, that does exist here, but it depends on the city.

Also, the moving of the kitchen was news to me. I had no idea. Never heard of that. I see the pros and cons of this, as per the others' comments, but, WOW! The large appliances are negotiable here, but fixtures are fixtures; afixed to the structure of the building.

Another gem posting. Thanks for sharing 💎

Fun fact: Open Kitchens and Kitchens combined with living room and so on is actually a very old concept. At least here in Bavaria on rural areas it was very often like that. I think most common name was "Bauernstube" or "Wohnküche" So it's like with many US things. - The concepts are actually not modern but from Europe but 100 - 150 and more years ago. When many germans, dutch and so on emigrated to the US. And then both sides of the atlantic developed a bit different.

I love your kitties! Showing old fashioned kitchens with a table made me flash-back to my Grandmother’s house. Grandma was a widow and when we came over we always ate at her kitchen table. She did have a formal dining room that was used during holiday meals with the entire family. Alas, the kids still ate in the kitchen and the adults in the dining room. That was nearly 70 years ago when our houses were much smaller. PS: the one advantage to gas stoves is that we still had heat if the power went out. Of course, we had to crack the window to circulate fresh air. Fortunately, power outages were rare back then!

I live in the San Bernardino mountains in Southern California, and we use a gas stove because we have frequent power outages. Some are planned for maintenance, and some occur when we get high winds, snow or heavy rain. With a gas stove I can use a match to light a burner and cook hot food when we have no power. We have a generator, but it is expensive to run so we save that for power outages that run multiple days. We also have a full size large freezer because our mountain roads are dangerous during inclement weather, and so we keep plenty of food on hand. Last winter we were snowed in for almost a month, and because of our freezer we didn’t run out of food.

many kitchens in the USA especially in modest priced or older homes have the kitchen in a separate room, usually they dont have doors on them

Usually a "garage fridge" which I have never had, is an old refrigerator that used to be in someone's kitchen and it got replaced by a new model. As long as the old fridge isn't leaking coolant, it's probably better for the environment than putting it in a dumpster. 7:58

My wife died last summer. I live alone now, not counting two dogs and a cat. I'm learning about kitchen things that my wife took care of. I would definitely love the German oven that you showed. It still requires a lot of button-pushing to get the timer to work on my oven.

I'm from Belgium. I build a new home in 2019. I have a modern open floor design with kitchen island. Most people these days are more worried with the looks than the practicality of the kitchen design. The open floor design has the benefit that you can cook and watch the kids. But the kitchen mess is visible for everyone. Meaning if you have guests over and prepare food for the guests it's tough keeping a balance between a clean kitchen and good food. If I would have it do it all over again I would go for something in the middle like Feli showed. A counter that is open, but otherwise the kitchen is closed from peaking eyes from the other sides.

Wow. You are so observant and full of insight. I've been watching your videos for years. And you have truly progressed to being the creator of really absorbing, perfectly structured and focused videos. Your presentation style is absolutely polished - exceptionally articulate and exceptionally charming.

My older brother was a professional chef. In his house, as at his work, he always had a gas stove top and an electric oven. It was a matter of greater control over cooking temperatures. It worked, he was a great cook. He's retired now and has gas everything where he lives in Wisconsin. We grew up in Michigan and had gas everything. I live in Florida now and its electric everything.

One of the other videos pointed out the difference in distances in the US vs Germany. This partially explains the large refrigerators in the US in order to cut down on driving. For what its worth, I have a fridge/freezer in the kitchen. A full size, upright freezer in the garage. A European sized refrigerator in the garage. A large chest freezer in the basement. If we aren't able to leave the house for 5 weeks, we'll be okay.

My house was made in the 70s when compartmentalization was a major influencer in floor plans. I knocked out the wall between my kitchen and living room and put in a floating bar and hanging cabinets. The kids love it to watch TV while they eat their snacks and extra storage is always good.

Speisekammer, Feli! I grew up in Germany (all over) grandparents lived in Detmold, NRW. They built a house in 1932, 4 floors including the cellar and attic flat. They had central radiator heating with a boiler in the cellar. They had a big bathroom with running hot and cold water, separate bath and a shower. They had a Wohnküche and a Waschtisch where you boiled water for one bowl and drain in the second. Gas stove.And they definitely had Speisekammer - pantry - internet wall and a bit insulated. They also had 2 cold rooms in the cellar to store potatoes, home made canned fruit and veg and a huge laundry room. My grandfather was a teacher, so not rich people, but the house was heaps ahead of American building standards.

When I look at an American stove, I can't help but think of ALF trying to cook a duck à l'orange, forgetting to light the gas and ending up flying through the house to the front door when the kitchen exploded. 😂

Gas cooktops are regional. I grew up in the Northeast and since we don't use gas to heat the house, we don't use it for cooking. I now live in the mid-Atlantic and here gas is used for household heating, so also for the cooktop. Bosch is a popular German brand of dishwasher in the US and it works great.

When I first moved to Austria as a Dutch person and started looking at apartments, I was so confused about all the places that didn’t yet have kitchens. While it’s not everywhere here like it seems to be in Germany, there are definitely quite a number of apartments where you as a tenant have to bring the kitchen. I had never even heard of that being a thing in the Netherlands. What is more common there, when renting cheap apartments or student housing in particular, is having to bring your own appliances (fridge, stove, oven etc). Also, I actually quite like the look of American kitchens, they’re not as sterile as what has been considered modern and trendy here for at least the past 10-20 years.

I still am impressed with your English, no hint of any accent and your subjects are great

In old Berlin appartments you can sometimes still find a little extra room on one side of the kitchen, normally facing outside walls and without heating (to keep things fresh without the need to cool).

Thanks for sharing. We spent a few weeks in Germany over the summer and we absolutely loved everything about it, everything. Funny thing though, we went to the store and bought icecream, when we got back to our AirbNb, we noticed in our very adorable small fridge that there was no freezer. Needless to say, we all enjoyed icecream right then.

I think we (household of 2) are unique, we have 3 freezers and 2 fridges. 1 American double door with freezer and fridge(for food), 1 standalone freezer(for meat), and 1 fridge(for drinks) with the freezer(for bread) in the bottom. we live in the south east of the Netherlands and actually do our shopping allot in Germany, just because many things are way cheaper there.

Havng lived off-base in Germany in the early 90s, our home was mostly like what you describe. We had a Wohnkuetchen with American style fridge and stove. We had a kitchen table to eat at and still was smaller than we had in Texas. I did more shopping there too, mostly for fresh bread and pastries from the local bakery. We did a once-a-week bid grocery shopping trip to the onbase store for our main foods. I enjoyed going to Trier to the big shopping market that included liquor and teas that weren't otherwise availlable. There was also a roast chicken vendor out front! Vielen Dank!

Wow, having a kitchen in its own room sounds fantastic!

I was stationed in Augsburg Germany in the early 80's. Lived on the economy in two different apartments. The first one was tiny and the kitchen was more like a boat galley (with a 3 burner gas range). The second one was larger, nicer and of course more expensive. That one came with a partial kitchen- stove, sink, and two cabinets. It was large enough to have room for a table, although there was a combined living /dining area in the apartment. The open concept for kitchens is relatively recent in the US. Most of the homes I visited while growing up had a separate kitchen and a dining room or arear adjacent. Prior to WWII, many families had "help" to do some of the household chores including cooking. And in larger, more affluent homes, the kitchen was the cook's domain where the lady of the house did not enter except to speak to the cook. The kitchen was separate to keep the smells away from the rest of the house. The fish may be delicious on your plate, but you may not want to smell it all night in the living room. In traveling around Augsburg I noticed that it was a city of neighborhoods, each with a little business district of little shops, baker, butcher, green grocer, etc. On any given day one could see the Hausfraus going shopping with their baskets. All in all, I found living in Germany like living in the US during the 50's and early 60's. The shops were mostly closed in the evening, and on on Sunday, so you had to make sure you were stocked up on anything you might need.

The house I lived in until I was 11 (Milwaukee, WI) was 100 yrs old. The kitchen was in a room by itself but no door. We had a table where we ate our every day meals. The dining room was next to it and we only ate holiday/special meals there. We played games and did our homework on that table.

We do have walk in pantries in Germany, actually, it's the good old "Vorratskammer" :-). The pantry situation in Germany depends on the age of your home, I suppose. We've bought a house from the 1870s and there is a pantry next to the kitchen. Although, back in the 1950s, it was originally adjoining the master bedroom - so no one could just get in and grab some food without the parents noticing, I guess.

A gallon of milk usually doesn't last all that long because we cook with it, drink it, and use it in cereal.

Gas vs. Electric stoves in the US has a strong regional component. I live in the South (Northern Florida) and the majority of the stoves here are electric (or increasingly induction). My family moved to Florida from Southern California, where gas stoves are pretty standard. I mostly learned to cook on electric but my mom learned on gas. She hates cooking on electric but has made it work after all these years!

The open kitchen area design began in the ‘50s. The early ‘50s house my parents bought had a “cafe door,” a kind of swinging half door, divided. My dad unscrewed it from the wall the first time it swung and hit one of my toddler siblings smack in the face. From there on it was a doorway, not a door, always open to the dining room. Small as the kitchen was, the builders had included not a “breakfast bar” but a “breakfast nook” in the kitchen. The nook was in no way large enough for the never ending stream of incoming boomers, so mom just put the dryer there. That “wall closet” in the kitchen we never called anything but the pantry. Large fridges evolved from one door to two door; at first the second door was a half door freezer. Then it evolved to a full door. But for my parents who grew up with ice boxes a quarter the size of the ‘50s appliance, it was never a fridge but always “the ice box.” The top of the ice box was the land where cereal boxes sprouted. There were never less than six boxes which as my brothers’ appetites exploded, grew to ten to twelve. This was mostly due to one tall, broad shouldered brother with the middle name Gustav who was the spitting image of a Medieval German farmer named Hans. The super-sized grocery store mom shopped in, one of the first before the big chains we now know, actually had a German name. As the family grew, when a newer fridge came, the old one went to the closed-in back porch to use the freezer for storing the half pig or quarter beef dad bought. The fridge section was for Kool-Aid, sometimes sodas for us kids in the summer. We had a bread box, but by the time I had my own apartment bread boxes were kaput. Washer and dryer in the basement or laundry room is a big improvement. Kitchen dryer and oven going at the same time was a recipe for heat stroke. Granite countertops crept in in the ‘80s and were the posh thing to have by the ‘90s. We have so much granite in the US a whole state is named The Granite State. What you missed is that what appliances are or are not in the kitchen depends on where you live in our huge nation. I’ve lived in five states. In the south the fridge comes with the house or apartment. Not so in many places in the north, even apartments. Residence seekers in the northeast know to always ask if the place comes with a fridge. You also didn’t mention much about how the kitchen is used socially. Somewhere in the ‘70s it began to be fashionable to not just use the kitchen for cooking but for socializing. The party’s not just in the living room but in the kitchen. Hence it’s nice to have open space with lots of countertop and “breakfast” stools. I say this so my German cousins don’t think we’re wasting space. We just want to park comfortably, family birthday celebrations being big to-dos that may include cousins, aunts and uncles. God forbid Aunt Meta has no comfortable spot to nurse her Pilsner. Good job, Feli, and thanks to 🇩🇪 for helping 🇺🇦. 🇺🇸& 🇩🇪 allies forever.

A few years ago I visited cousins in Germany. Both families lived in old farm houses that have been updated over the centuries. One family’s house was first built in 1690! The kitchen had all modern appliances including washer and dryer. It also had an informal dining area adjacent to a roomy living room. If the family had a really big gathering they opened up the long and wide “entry hall” for seating. On either side are the bedrooms and bathrooms which were originally designed for the horses and farm equipment. My other cousins live in a farmhouse that was rebuilt after WW2 and has a more modern layout with the long and wide entry hall split in half. The front half was a garage and inside half is a guest room.

The walk in wall closet is called a Speisekammer, a small room next to the kitchen for storage. One by one meter or so in size. At least in the north of Germany some homes have that. Maybe more older homes and not new builds. Quite funny, I learned in school to use the double sink. But I never came across them in any houses.

I'm in Tennessee. I have a wall oven separate from the stove. My stove is electric and looks like the induction top. It's glass on the top and conceals the coils. Our garbage can is built in into a kitchen cabinet. It's not sitting out in the open. I have a kettle and boil the water on the stovetop for my tea. I can't believe that Germans have to furnish the kitchen when they rent or buy an apartment. I can't believe washing machines in the kitchen EXCEPT when I moved into an apartment in 2004 here in TN, they had a very small washer and dryer in the kitchen. that was the most weirdest thing to me. But I think it was a space saving issue.

Being 64 years old and moving around a lot, I’ve seen it all regarding US kitchens. The style has changed dramatically over the decades. From all white metal cabinets and counters to pastel pinks and greens in the 50s to Formica and patterns in the 60s to “harvest yellow” in the 70s to colonial style light woods in the 80s, back to white in the 90s, to granite and stainless in modern kitchens.

The video of the oven fire around 13:20 is, in fact an electric oven. Also, not all stoves with gas top burners have gas ovens. Dual fuel ranges are gas cooktops and electric ovens.

Garage beer fridge is pretty common. That's where you put the old one when you buy a new one. Chest freezer in the basement is for the processed elk and Costco haul.

Gas stoves give you immediate heating and also immediate stopping and therefore better for cooks that want to contgrol their cooking.

Actually the direct visual confirmation of the heat output through the flame size is what I really like when cooking. You can perfectly "see" the heat output. This is why I use use gas . (German here btw.)

This was an interesting video. Wouldn’t have thought there would be so many differences.

I think the sizes of kitchens in Germany vary a lot with how old the building and the apartments are because I've noticed that a lot of kitchens in buildings from pre-war are a lot bigger and usually have a pantry whereas buildings from the 60s-80s usually have way smaller kitchens (but they're a lot less spacious in general). I've also mostly ever seen wooden, framed country-side style kitchens in Germany than the modern sleek ones, so learning that these are more common in Germany was pretty interesting lol

Currently moving from Essen and sold my kitchen last week. It's so wild the kitchen don't come with the house. Thank god the new place has everything. Minus a fridge lol

I enjoy your videos very much. I spent two years in Germany, but that was fifty years ago and I spent most of my time on a US Air Force base. I was in one German kitchen, but it was in a large home and looked a lot like kitchens I was used to in the US. I have owned my own home for many years now. When I was renting I never rented a place which came with appliances, but always bought my own. I used to have a farm house which was built in 1920. It had a large kitchen which was connected to a dining room by a swinging door. The dining room was connected to the living room by a large opening with partial walls about three feet high on each side of it. It was also connected to a large porch which wrapped around to the front of the house. We designed and built the house I have now. It has a great room, combination kitchen, dining room, and living room. We had a lot of trouble with new appliances we had bought not long before building the home we are now in. As a of that we went with very high end commercial appliances. We picked out the appliances and designed the kitchen for those appliances. We also built a laundry room with a commercial washer and dryer. We have a large freezer and refrigerator. Each is about three feet wide and twenty inches deep. They sit side by side and are attached to the wall and to each other. We could have used door panels which matched the cabinets, but went with brushed stainless steel. The wall behind them is red. The rest of the walls are a neutral color. The stove sits next to the double sink. It was built to our specifications. It has six gas burners which have more heat control than I have ever seen on another stove. It also has a gas grill and two electric ovens.it has a very large hood above it which moves a lot of air to the outside of the house. The stove and hood are the same red color as the wall with the refrigerator and freezer only it. I also have a small refrigerator which has going to go in the garage, but ended up in the dining room area. There is a breakfast bar next to the stove with stools in the living room area. I also have freezers in my basement. I do buy milk by the gallon and I buy butter at a Amish store. I do not keep eggs in the refrigerator. I have chickens and keep unwashed eggs on the counter. The house that I grew up in didn't have a kitchen originally. Kitchens used to be detached from the house when stoves burned wood. The house that I grew up in had a detached kitchen from another property moved and attached to it before my dad bought the house. It hung off one side of the house like an afterthought.

moving the kitchen from place to place is not that hard as it sounds. all cabinets have standart sizes that makes rearange everything to the new place easy. most of the time you need only a new coutertop. but the most important thing is, the kitchen is build after your taste and not after the landlords or preowners taste.

Hi Feli,💗💗 you are the bit of sun shine in my day, that is a great report on the kitchens thank you

In Norway, a distinction is made between fixed and not.fixed furnishings. Bathroom furnishings and kitchen are fixed and the home is always sold with it. Sofa and table... are not fixed...

Regarding kitchen floors, our house (in California) had tile, but it's hard and cold. We replaced it with a high quality vinyl flooring, which looks good and is warm and softer to stand on for long periods when you're cooking. It's also more waterproof against spills than tile or wood.

'94 visiting my great aunt in Coburg... everyones apartment came with a separate little yard up the street. It was so fun how everyone got together.

Gas stoves in the US is very much a regional thing - only 38%ish of stoves are gas. In New Jersey, California, New York and a few other places it's over 65% but very low in other places.

Very cool content right here. Interesting. The point about gas stoves/ovens that you may or may not have considered is, when the home loses power, people can still cook. That is the only reason I have gas lines to hot water tank for hot showers, gas fire place for heat and then the before mentioned range/oven for food. Gas keeps going even after the power is out. So it is a consideration for convenience and long term indoor survival. And I was glad you gave your opinion on which you liked better, USA or German Kitchens. BTW, your cat is terrific! Loved the interaction there. 🤣

I live in Norway, and I have bought and rented in Norway and Sweden, all appliances that are fixed, that is to say, all doors, kitchen cabinets, stoves, oventops, floors, lamps and whatever belongs to the dwelling, rented or not. I thappens that people that moves take the ovens and fridges out, but then the renter or buyer by law can buy these tigs and deduct it from the price or rent. Fridges ara often in the same styles as kitchen cabinets as in Germany, but if they are standalone, and only connected by a plug, then it is not fixed, and the owner can take it out, same thing goes for washing machines and diswashers, it all depends how integrated they are. We also use marble and granite countertops. But the kitchens, like Germany are a separate room, but the half open kitchen is becoming more popular, as the kitchen an pantry style is making it's return. In the old days , whwn you had staff there was a kitchen downstairs, but they also had a pantry next to the dining room upstairs, so did not have to go up and down for everything.

Growing up, we had a simple electric stovetop/oven combination with an on/off, temperature knob and a clean switch. My wife and I built a new house (in NC) with high-end appliances in the kitchen. Stove top, separate wall ovens. They have all options as you show. In shopping for these, I noticed most stoves have the complicated setting now at most levels of price. I of course when cooking a frozen pizza, place it in the oven at 350 and check on it. I'm sure it has a pizza setting but too much trouble to figure it out. The disappearing oven door is amazing! Great video and I enjoy your shows!

Mir gefallen deine videos. Mach weiter so. ☺☺ I hope I translated it correctly. 😁😁 When I have moved, the only appliances that I have ever moved with me was the washer and dryer. The kitchen always had the fridge and the stove/oven and the dishwasher, if it had one. The cupboards were already there. But I agree, it would seem strange to me to move the kitchen with you. I also enjoy how open the kitchen is to the rest of the house. I think I would find it strange to have to go through door to go into or out of the kitchen. As for the smell of foods cooking in the kitchen, I think some food makes the house smell nicer. Like if you were baking cookies or something. Again, keep up the good work. Nochmals: Machen Sie weiter so. I hope I translated it correctly.

It really depends on the region. In some regions of the US where there is a lot of hydroelectric power or electricity is cheaper, you'll see electric stoves. In other areas, gas is more common.

That oven with the foldaway door looks really awesome!

Terrific video. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Some of what you pointed out of the smaller German kitchens reminds me so much of the smaller 2-bedroom 1950s house, of which my German parents assumed the military loan, where I grew up in WA state (that WHOLE neighborhood was built for service men and their families). [That was a long sentence.] -Dining table IN the kitchen. -Single basin sink. -Trash under the sink. -Separate room (but no door). -No washer, though. We had a basement, so our wring washer was down there, and, yes, my mom hung EVERYTHING on the line in our backyard. In later years, they upgraded to a washer and dryer downstairs and removed the backyard line. After my dad extended the kitchen, that area was for our dining table. After he built the carport and garage, they put an upright freezer in the garage for large meat purchases. There was no room for a pantry of any kind in the kitchen, so after my dad made part of the basement into an entertainment room, the other part became our pantry, using the open 2 by 4 beams as shelving for the canned goods.😅 The cupboards and drawers were made of metal, which is odd, but the stove/oven was an electric stand-alone unit with the exposed coils. That was normal for this area, as my first house in the 70s was also electric. Moving to CA and now in MI, they've been gas and I don't have a preference. Thanks for sharing the "out-takes" with your fur babies. That was fun to see. I enjoy your content in each video. Keep it up. 😊👍

Very interesting. In my experience in the US, gas stoves are preferred by people who are seriously into cooking. Instant on/off and easier to control the temperature. You will find regional differences as well in those areas of the country where most houses have individual natural gas lines that provide fuel for heating, stoves, and even dryers (mostly out west i think). I grew up with this living in town in the Rocky Mountain north. Rural friends and family have a large outdoor propane tank that is refilled when needed by a guy with a truck. I had natural gas in San Diego proper until i moved last year. So bummed that i now have to deal with an electric stove and heat in my new house. I HAVE managed to set electric stoves and ovens on fire, and have learned to check inside for leftover pizza boxes before turning it on. Just my observations having been born and lived all over the US for 63 years (although not in Cincinnati 😊)

I think of wall ovens as something from the 70s.

I've never lived in a house or apartment with a gas stove that I can remember; I've always had electric coil tops. That started with a late 1950s "Mid Century Modern" home in the Seattle area, then a mid-1960s home in Florida, and back to the Seattle area in a 1970s house and 1980s and '90s apartments.

That oven with the door that hides away when open is awesome. I've lived in 7 houses here in the U.S. since I was a kid and every one had a garbage disposal. I just always assumed that all houses had them.

I confess that to me, this is one of the strangest differences between here and Germany. (The fact that you have to move your kitchen)

Had gas stoves in New York. When we moved to Florida, it was electric. Got an induction stove when I renovated one of the houses that I lived in. otherwise, I have the ones with the heating coil. Same thing with the oven They have a special 4-prong plug which I think is 220V. I've had electric oven on fire before. Keep the fire extinguisher - or sand -- handy. The fridge, garbage disposer, microwave, and dishwasher all run on 110V. Oh, and had those accordian doors to hide the washer (110V) and dryer (220V)

In my country usually you pick out the kitchen and bathroom to go in your house. Love this.

What I like about a gas cooktop is the immediacy of the heat. When you turn it on, it is ON, and when you turn it off, it is OFF. No waiting a couple minutes for the coils to come up to heat, and when you turn it off, you can leave your skillet or pot in place and not burn the food because the coils are still hot for a bit.

This may be different now, but some features I remember from living in Germany in the 80s: water heaters mounted on the wall directly above the kitchen and bathroom sinks. Also, we had no laundry facilities available in any of the apartments/apartment buildings I lived in. We washed our clothes by hand in the bathtub. We had a motorized spinner to take the water out of the clothes, then dried the laundry on folding drying racks in the living room. Also, heating oil was so expensive the one time we rented a house that we only heated the kitchen, living room, and the one bathroom with a tub in it. Everything else was closed off and kept cold, sometimes to the point of ice forming on the inside of the windows.

I've seen pantries in Germany, usually under the label "Speisekammer", or in Tyrol, just "Speis". If your house was build before World War I, it probably has a Speisekammer. I've also grown up with double sinks, where the second sink often was occupied by a drying basket for the dishes. 19:35 As far as I know this is called country house.

We like our oven temperature settings adjustable bc most ovens I've used are not very accurate and we need to adjust them to get the correct heat on many foods that require it. Just finding a new setting or leaving food in longer makes the chore more complicated. Oven thermometers are great (simple & easy) to help adjust the temp. No additional "guessing" required.

Very interesting subject, Ms. Feli. I grew up in a 1890's house in a small Iowa town. The house originally didn't have running water and he kitchen had the original cupboards when we moved in the 1970's. We had a pantry that mom loved and kept after the remodel. Most all old houses are separate kitchens (I still like that) with a kitchen table where you eat. The dining room is for holidays, parties or Sunday dinner only! Lol. The back porch that was right north of the kitchen was enclosed and thats where the old refridgerator went, and in winter the porch is "The walk in cooler/freezer" a upper Midwestern thing in Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The big freezer is in the basement and thats where the butchered meat goes like deer, beef, hog, poultry etc. and other frozen bulk things like fruits, soups, etc. The washer and dryer and inside clothes lines are in the basement as is the washroom with toilet and shower for me after work BTW the kettle is going on the stove right now. It does all winter long. :)

Wir sind Südtiroler und haben eine "deutsche" Wohnküche mit NEFF-Geräten, Ofen auf Augenhöhe, eingebaute Geschirrspühlmaschine, sechs verschiedenen, versteckten Müllkübel (reicht nicht, da wir 8 verscheidene Abfälle sammeln: Papier, Kartone, Glas/Metal, Plastik, Biomüll, Restmüll, Komposit verpackungen (Tetrapck/Evopack); Altbatterien) nur die Mikrowelle ist freistehend und Italienisch (DeLonghi)!

My grandmother's house in Texas (built maybe in the 1940s, but I'm not sure) had a washing machine in the kitchen. It's rare in the US, but not unheard of in older homes.

A common kitchen thing in Quebec Canada, but more in old houses an rural areas, We have wood fire oven/stove to cook. Thats make sense here because alot of houses are heated up by wood furnace in winter due to harsh temperature (cost less than hydro electric when it's like -10°C to -50°C outside) So wood for your furnace and wood for your stove and that heat up your house aswell!

Electric water kettles are more regional here in the United States. In the Pacific Northwest a lot of homes have them. We use ours at home. We have several at work that we all use.

I grew up in older homes that had the kitchen in its own room. The "open plan" became more popular later, although I believe it was driven by builders not wanting to build a separate room. The logic they used is that the kitchen is the center of activity, with people chatting or helping while a meal is being made, so the larger, open space is allows for that. Personally, I prefer a separate room, but that's just me. As for gas vs. electric, here in parts of California new homes must be all electric. Gas is no longer allowed for environmental reasons. I grew up in the northeast where gas is common and learned to cook with it. Then I moved to Florida where gas wasn't available and had to adjust. I still prefer gas. My current house has gas heat and water heaters and a gas line running through the house to outside where one could hook up a natural gas grill. But for some reason the builder didn't run the gas line to the kitchen, so the range is electric. Those with coils are older. Today only the cheapest models have exposed coils like that. I have a smooth glass top ( which has coils under the glass), and two ovens. One is full sized, the other is half sized and I use that one far more often then the big one. My microwave is separate, not over the stove, but that's because I remodeled the kitchen. The original one was over the stove. The vent didn't work very well, but when I did the remodel, I realized why...the builder never attached the exhaust port from the vent to the pipe going outside! All this was hidden behind a box, which sort of acted as a plenum. Sort of. The idea of taking your kitchen with you, so common in Germany, is not something I've ever seen in the US, and it seems weird, as you noted. My friend in Germany recently moved into an apartment that came with a kitchen, as well as flooring. But many she looked at came with neither. She has a tiny dishwasher and clothes washer in the kitchen, which is better than not having them, I guess. Having a separate laundry room is very common in the US. Lastly, styles change, especially in the US. Colors, painted cabinets, blacks/grays/whites are more common now. Natural or stained wood is less common, but is my preference. I have to say that I do like the minimalist look of the modern, Euro kitchens though. Great video!

I wanted to move to Cincinnati. Only know a few words in German. However I really enjoy watching your KZfaq videos. Keep up the good work!!! 😊

Don't forget about our upright freezers we stand next to the fridge.

Growing up in the Country we always made sure to have 30 day supply of food on hand. Not including canned goods and root cellar stuff. My wife came from the city and was use to shopping every other day. After just one winter and being snowed in for a week she understands why in the fall I go a little crazy about getting everything ready for winter.

I never heard of a moving kitchen. My Oma and Opa in Heidelberg had a fairly large permanent kitchen. This was about 50 years ago so they may have changed. 😂

The fact that the kitchen cabinets, light fixtures, blinds, mirrors etc is all removed or missing when moving in is mind blowing to me. 😯 Personally I think it just sounds like such a pain to be required to move it or be forced to go purchase it every time one moves.

One of the class exercises in my college German class was to go to the German Ikea site with a listed budget and fully furnish an apartment or house.

We have a combination stove: gas cooktop with electric oven... I've never had to cook with a gas oven, but love using the gas cooktop. For a breadbox, we have a "bread drawer" that has a clear slider lid. And we have a Bosch dishwasher that's lasted much longer than anything we had before...

Greetings from Germany Hamburg! When I moved 3 years ago in a new apartment, I chose one without a kitchen and bought one by myself. There are apartments to rent with a kitchen inside, but usually the rent is double compared to one without a kitchen. So It's just cheeper to pay 80 € a month for a credit than 300 € a month more for an apartment that comes with a kitchen. On top I do have exactly the kitchen I like 😀

Open floor plan saves space and makes people feel like they have a bigger home. In Utah, we have the Utah one step kitchen, smaller but more practical.

Pretty much the same thing in Italy: move with kitchen, small integrated fridges, modern/smooth/laminate cabinet doors, eat in kitchens rather than open kitchens, etc. In smaller cities though, gas stoves are still very popular and double sinks!

Well, I have tile floors, a pull-out trash cabinet, single sink, no island, laminate counters, use a breadbox, and it's a NJ house from the 1910s! It's also pretty small... but it's my kitchen and I love it.

Have a cat just like your gray kitty. His name is Dusty. He gets into trouble just like your kitty does.

At 20:06, regarding your new floor: oftentimes when a checkerboard pattern is presented on the bias (diagonally), it is called harlequin.

Hello Feli. I renovated my house in UK, with help from a joiner. My girlfriend's parents bought a house and did not want the brand new glossy style kitchen as they were extending the kitchen to suit someone their age and get rid of a step. I reused the brand new units we removed and added to the apliances with extra Bosch appliances, affordable with the money saved, like that German hob you described. We used extra panels from Ikea "casualty bay" to complete the fit in my house, to a similar design to the US open plan, and create a unit for the double electric oven. I used an otherwise wasted corner of the living area, next to the archway entrance, to make a stand for the fridge, so I could get a large US style one if I wanted. I worked with the electrician to fit the hood over the cooker, essential to stop smells from the smaller kitchen getting into the living area. The slim dishwasher fitted next to the washer by having shifted the fridge space. I commented before that I spent time in both your home and adopted country, so I try to pick the best ideas I saw. I learned how to fit kitchens because I worked in a laboratory and until we could afford specialist units, we used kitchen ones we maintained ourselves. A joiner friend that helped me got a business fitting laboratories and I was able to suggest him to replace the units with professional ones as the business I worked for grew.