Chapter 650: Designing the Kitchen
The border of Sungai Village is on the north side of the county seat. In addition, the temperature here in the summer will be a few degrees lower than in the county seat. Maybe it's a good thing to have Mrs. Lu and others come for the summer vacation.
In this way, we have to pay more attention to aspects such as comfort.
Therefore, at the end of this period, Chu Xintian and Jiao Tiezhu had a good discussion, trying to arrange everything they could think of in place to avoid rework in the future.
Among them, Chu Xintian cares most about the kitchen and bathroom.
Before living in an adobe house, the kitchen and hall were in one space. A typical northern stove is connected to an earthen kang. When cooking, the fire is lit and the temperature enters the kang hole, keeping the whole house warm.
This cooktop is good, especially in winter, and is a very coal-efficient way to heat up.
Moreover, the iron pot is very good, and the firewood is burning on the stove, and the fire is also burning fast, and the cooking speed is also very strong.
There are many advantages and disadvantages.
The biggest disadvantage of this type of stove is that the pot is too large, and the pot is firmly embedded in the stove, so it cannot be moved at all.
The big iron pot died again, which made Chu Xintian particularly inconvenient when he was brushing the pot. She's a slightly cleaner person. Every time she brushes the pot, she always feels that she doesn't brush it well. She had to wash it with water five or six times and scoop the water out of the pot.
Chu Xintian doesn't like to cook on the local stove because it consumes too much energy.
Another thing is that the cookware is connected to the kang.
Although in winter, this is a good thing. When cooking, we solved the problem of heating. The kang is hot, and lying in a warm quilt, no matter how the north wind blows outside, we will feel warm all over our bodies.
Don't forget, when it's not cold, the stove is also connected to the kang. Especially in the summer, when the weather is hot, the kang burns very hot. In the summer, you can't sleep like you do in the winter. You can't sleep on the hot kang anymore. It's hot, isn't it?
It was these two shortcomings that made Chu Xintian feel that she couldn't ignore it at all, and she decided to redesign the kitchen structure of the new house.
The first is the size of the cooktop.
Considering that there may be many workers at home to eat in the future, Chu Xintian thinks that there should be a large stove in the kitchen.
However, Chu Xintian believes that there will not be many opportunities to cook with a large stove in this kitchen. If she eats with Bai Yongjing and Alu Hammer, they can also use a small movable stove to cook, which is more convenient.
Luckily, the kitchen is not small. Chu Xintian designed a U-shaped furnace. On the left and right, it still looks like it's on the other side of the old house. There are two large iron furnaces.
In the middle, make three small movable cooktops.
For simple meals, you can use three small stovetops, steamed buns and steamed buns, or stew large pots of vegetables, stick the cakes to the pot noodles, and then you can use the large stovetops on both sides.
With these two large stoves and three small stoves, Chu Xintian didn't let them pass the kang in the main house.
In this way, people can sleep comfortably in spring, summer, and autumn when they don't need a hot ondol.
On the issue of winter heating, Chu Xintian also discussed with Jiao Tiezhu and solved the problem with Dilong.
The so-called "geodragon" is a bit like the geothermal of the generation.
In fact, it is similar to the ondol heating principle, except that the ondol of these houses is connected by a common flue. When the time comes, instead of taking fire from the stove, you can take the fire directly from the underground heating, and the house will naturally warm up.
The advantage is that the cooktops for cooking and heating are separated. Even if you cook in the kitchen in the summer, you won't feel stuffy.
Of course, there is a slight downside to this. That is, some fuel will be wasted a little. However, this question was not a problem for Chu Xintian. They guarded the North Mountain. There is a lot of wood and raw materials on the mountain, which can be said to be sufficient. If they are worried about not having enough wood, they can also buy some coal in the winter, which is still affordable.