I know this is supposed to be a blog about construction, but I have decided to indulge my inner chef and build a kitchen!!

That’s right, after a  year of giving the health department, and the fire department, and everybody else what THEY want, I am getting some stuff I want!!!

Weirdly, one is not required to have a stove when opening a restaurant. In fact the fire dept. would prefer you didn’t. Of course one is not required to have good food either. To require that would mean licensing cooks, and ain’t nobody going to do that.
I had to hire a licensed electrician, a licensed plumber, sheet metal guy, a licensed engineer, draughtsperson, etc. but a licensed cook? No you don’t need that. Cooks just make the food we eat. It’s not like they are fixing air conditioners or something.

Anyway, it is me time. And me wants a stove. Help me pick:
$1,400 on ebay:

e.u. 3,900 from importer:

$1,000 from my neighbors in the SGV:
On Craigslist “Been in a church basement for 30 years and used only occasionally:

From the estate sale of a has-been rock star in the H’wod hills:

And my current fave: this bad ass french top wolf, mis-labeled as a griddle and abandoned in a warehouse in the valley:

Help me pick, please!