The Anonymous Widower

Google is as Useless as Oxford Street

My kitchen isn’t the best from a layout point of view. 

A Useless Bin and Vegetable Rack

Note the bin, which deserves to be shot and the rather dainty vegetable rack, placed in the only space I have for them in my kitchen.

To show that I’m not being vindictive, I will start by detailing all of the faults.

1. The bin doesn’t take standard plsstic bags from the major supermarkets.
2. The lid doesn’t stay up, so when I fish a tea-bag out from a cup, I have to balance the bag all the way across the kitchen to dispose of it. Look at the tea stains on the floor in the picture.
3. Every time I take one of the plastic inserts out of the bin, I catch my fingers. Ladies would break their nails regularly.  I just trap fingers, which is not good if you’re on Warfarin.
4. The vegetable rack has all the stability of a blancmange.
5. The rack is too wide for the kitchen and effectively blocks the drawers.  That’s my fault and I shouldn’t have bought it.  But it was the only one I could find!

I’m working on the bin, but surely what is needed is a simple wall-mounted rack for the vegetables.

So yesterday, I started up one end of Oxford Street and walked to the other looking for a better rubbish bin and vegetable rack.  It was just more of the same bad designs.

This morning I’ve typed “wall-mounted vegetable rack” into Google and the search finds lot of entries, but none are wall-mounted vegetable racks. Ty it, if you want a laugh! One entry from Trovit Homes, says that I can buy a wall-mounted vegetable rack from £229950. To put it mildly, the Internet is being ruined by charlatan companies, who get you high positions in the search results.

In fact, I did get one good idea.  The shopping baskets in the food hall of John Lewis would make an ideal vegetable basket for my kitchen.  I didn’t even bother to ask if I could buy them, as I suspect they have no mechanism to sell me one.  I tried to buy one of IKEA’s in-house bins once and they said no.

February 24, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | Food, World | Design, John Lewis, Kitchens, Moving, Shopping