John Arndt’s
Kitchen of Terrestrial Mechanics
June 29, 2006
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If Mother Nature had designed a kitchen…
The Kitchen of Terrestrial Mechanics uses natural phenomenon normally taken for granted like gravity, evaporation, plant growth, static electricity, decomposition and digestion as mechanical elements in a holistic kitchen design. Water dripping off freshly cleaned dishes falls like raindrops onto the herbs growing below the dish rack. Unglazed ceramic food containers become cooler when they get wet from the drops of water from freshly washed dishes above. The water evaporates, cooling the interior of the container. Composted material is thrown into a garbage disposal governed by worms, to be turned into the rich castings that will grow the next month’s fresh herbs all over again. Nature’s mechanisms are integrated to create a flow of process uncommon in conventional kitchens.
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In fact ‘Flow’ is the name Arndt gave to the family of products that work best as parts of the larger system. For the kitchen to work for you, you must use it. This may be the only kitchen you will ever meet that actually depends upon you to feed it, water it, let it grow, harvest it, eat it, get it really dirty, create some garbage in it and wash it for it to function optimally. This may be the only kitchen you will ever meet that will miss you when you’re gone and will wilt if you go away on an extended holiday, hungering for your return. The Kitchen of Terrestrial Mechanics is definitely Nature at its most gratifying.
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