I have been perusing kitchen photos on the web since we will be doing a few updates to the kitchen in the house we bought. It seems so inefficient that our stoves are big enough to hold a turkey that we cook once a year or not at all. Our refrigerators are also quite massive-no wonder food goes bad as it gets lost in there. Not to mention the utility costs of having huge appliances. I have been looking at some of the smaller European style appliances but they are way out of our budget. Anyway found this article that asks the same question:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...so-big/280275/