Having just purchased a new property, which we will be renovating. I have naturally been thinking about designs and appliances for my new kitchen.
Looking around the internet, I have come across some fabulous items.
This one in particular caught my eye!
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| Grand Palais 180 Range by La Cornue |
Not only do you need a large kitchen area for this beauty, you also need a large bank balance! Available from around $46,000.
"Two vaulted ovens, one gas and one electric. Two large hot plates allowing all variety of frying pan and saucepan rotations, facilitating the preparation of even the most complex of menus. To complete the picture, two large solid brass burners on each side.
Other configurations may be produced, in accordance with your wishes: only gas ovens, or only electric, gas burners or electric plates, a lava rock, a teppanyaki grill or even induction plate. As for the choice of finishes, and combinations with regard to materials and colours, they are almost infinite.
Each time a « Grand Palais 180 » leaves our workshops, we almost certainly feel the same sense of pride as the magical artisans of Molsheim when a "Royal" left Bugatti."
Text from La Cornue
Would I purchase one of these? Yes, if I could afford it! Can I afford it? Sadly, no!
A message for those who can afford it "the rest of us are extremely jealous" LOL.
5 comments:
But it's so UGLY!
Oh, yes. I would like one, too!!
Kavey LOL, beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
Cool...but I will not able to own one.
Looking at the heat control knobs I see on the front of this unit, there is one knob to control the heat for each of the flat surfaces in the middle. So each of the flat areas can only have one temperature setting.
I think this configuration will result in the large flat areas of this unit not being used on a regular basis. They will only be used when cooking with extra large stockpots, saucepans etc. How often does that happen unless you are cooking in a commercial setting?
Yes, you can put more than one saucepan on each flat surface, but that only works if the foods in those saucepans all require the same cooking temperature. Again, how often do all the foods you cook for a meal require the same temperature setting?
This is basically an old wood burning range with the modern convenience of having 4 gas burners added. I can remember the old wood ranges. The whole surface ends up being pretty well the same temperature....not the best set up for cooking.
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