Appliances

IBCrazy62987​ Both would be nice. I hate that you have to stick a whole appliance in the middle of a counter. For instance, putting the rice cooker and the blender on the same counter, or the microwave under a cabinet on a shelf and they would all be fully functional. A little more freedom on decorating the kitchen with all these cool gadgets and being able to use them. Drives me nuts. I love you can shrink down and island counter and freely move the appliance to where you want it. There it is...a kitchen that looks great with everything where you want it. Your toddler wants chicken nuggets for lunch or your teens want berry waffles for breakfast and no. You can't use your appliances. All that time designing your perfect kitchen and you can't use any of your small appliances. You'd almost need a 64x64 lot just to have a kitchen. 

I love the appliances and it would be nice for them to be able to share space on one counter.   Maybe it would be nice to utilize cabinets and we could store them in the cabinets and you could just click open (like you would on the fridge and pull them out maybe?   Nothing else but appliances could be stored in there.

I would agree. I also find it rather frustrating that none of these things can be used on a table.

@SheriGR @gooochyeee 

Sorry I didn't specify, yes this post is about home kitchens, not restaurants or cafes.

~ 🏳️‍🌈 Shane, he/they

@simsplayer818 I completely agree on the separate stovetop/built in oven things. Every single time I try to use them in a kitchen design I throw in the towel and remove them, as all of the restrictions on how to use them stink for design and creative purposes, and even adding them in ways they would work in real life (real life restrictions) almost always doesn't work out for me. Also, the custom stove part should have a version at countertop level - inserted in a cabinet. It would also be nice if it was possible to insert one beneath that one for a double oven that takes one tile. There are a number of ways that a separated stovetop & oven can be used that are so cool, but I can almost never do so with the ones in game now. So sad. 😢

I personally love all the new appliances they give us but I soooo agree with @LadyAofPineapple!! Smaller appliences could totally share the same counter. Ice cream and popcorn machines would fit next to each other no problem, and I'd adore that solution!!

I agree with all of this too. I've just started using the move objects cheat (after learning that it doesn't affect my console achievements like most cheats) and I've tried putting a few other decorative kitchen clutter items around the gadgets to save space in each section if my Sim has a lot of appliances. But you have to be really careful not to block access to the gadget itself. Those little scales can fit anywhere, knives, spice racks, etc.

It also frustrates me that some items have to go on a kitchen island instead of a counter, like some scales and some Cool Kitchen items. That doesn't make sense to me. 

But my biggest pet hate is that the DHD built in ovens can't be placed under the hobs. That makes no sense at all because IRL that's exactly where they do go. A built in oven goes directly under a hob whether gas or electric. I have an electric ceramic hob with an oven fitted underneath it. I do have a counter top combination oven too which is bigger (but that's for my accessibility needs for my weak back lol, don't want to injure self fighting with an oven ready chicken 🍗😩) but everyone I know has the oven under the hob. They look daft being placed in the counters around the hob. Even cooking shows have kitchens set up this way too. It annoys me.

@gooochyeee Yes, there is the "Impress-O Expresso Machine" that can only be placed on the countertop that's made for it (see below - the "Easy Energy Espresso Bar"), which comes with Get Together...

However, the "Espresso Engine" and the "Espresso Grind-O-Matic" that also come with Get Together can also be placed on normal counters (see above). So, given the context, I assume that the "Espresso Engine" and the "Espresso Grind-O-Matic" are what @SadSimsShane is referring to using in her Sim's home.