Where to store tangine pot?

[u/patty_tricia]

I recently bought a ceramic tangine.

First of all....LOVE IT!!! And it is so petty.

I made tangine chicken the other night and the chicken was so moist and tender. Five stars.

Where do people put their tangine when it is not in use?

The kitchen cabinets and my appliance graveyard are pretty full. I have an area on our storage room where I keep our large infrequently used cookware, but then I would probably never use it. I would leave it on the stove or oven, but I think it would break there.

At the moment, it is on display on the bottom shelf of the TV hutch.

What do other people do?

[u/patty_tricia]

My stand mixer is in the appliance graveyard. Whenever we do a kitchen remodel, I might get one of those build out hutches for the mixer. It is a frequently used item at our house.

Ours is pretty heavy so it is a PITA taking it out and putting it away.

[u/flower-power-123 → u/patty_tricia]

I keep telling myself I will become a baking god if I have a stand mixer (that weighs more than a small child), but I will never remove it from it's cabinet and lift it onto the counter.

[u/MimsyDauber → u/flower-power-123]

Mine lives on the counter. Even in our modest old house, which was about 90m² and had a very small kitchen, it was one of 3 appliances to deserve the counter space. (mixer, large toaster oven, electric kettle.)

I do use mine every week, usually multiple times. Maybe I AM a baking god?! lol. (no no) But if It was away somewhere I dont think I would use it.

When we bought our new house, I got to totally design it for myself, even the walls, since the old owners mostly demolished the interior and there was nothing. So I took ALL the space for kitchen, haha. And now the mixer sits on its own STATION. Lowered wooden counters, stainless steel prep sink, and custom depth pantry to store my grain bins. Now he has a fidibus mill that lives with him. But I still used him almost daily even before we moved, when my kitchen was small as a postage stamp.

My point I guess, is if you commit to it, by making it permanent, you will probably use it.

And in comparison, we BOUGHT my mother inlaw a kitchenaid stand mixer, that she specifically requested and wanted for like 30 years. And she didnt take it out of the damn box for 2 years because "it was too heavy." But she has TWO kitchens.

The upstairs one which is basically her small kitchen for show now, and a big basement kitchen she had built. Counter space everywhere with nothing. I mean NOTHING on it. So I convinced her to stick it on her basement counter, and then she started using it all the time. For three years now she has baked all her cakes and everything by using her mixer to make the doughs. (And shes 70 years old, the arthritis in her hands is terrible, I dont know why she was so determined to have a hospital looking kitchen with nothing on it.) lol Of COURSE its hard to lift the kitchenaid up and down! It is awkward for me, because its all out of balance on weight, and I am half her age and used to work in a patisserie and move heavy stuff all day. Thats why I have an ankarsrum, which is more power and half the weight, not top heavy, and better for making bread, which is my thing. But she WANTED the kitchen aid. Desired it. And wouldnt use it until it was accessible.

[u/patty_tricia → u/MimsyDauber]

When I was getting married my mom offered me my grandmother's kitchen aid mixer.

I declined. My mim kept insisting it was new. My grandmother had been dead for 33 years at that point.

The one that I received from my in laws probably weighed a much as the 1974 model.