Kitchen Sink
 

We are in the process of installing granite in our home. My question is whether to install one large kitchen sink or a sink with a low divide? Please advise.

I would chose one large sink. The existing two sink configuration with or without a low divide is inadequate, IMHO.

If your base cabinet is wide enough, I would get a 31" or 32" undermount single bowl stainless steel sink such as the one below. From a good granite installer they should cost between $300 to $350, if not you could go to Lowe's or Home Depot and find them there. In fact, go to one of those stores and see in person the various configurations. As RickD stated above, a divided sink is really useless and when you have big pans to clean you'll be thankful you chose the larger.

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I don't have a better picture, but here is a kitchen we had remodeled in Baltimore. On the far left of the photo below the window is a 31" sink. With a nice sprayer it goods great. The granite still has rounded corners even thought the sink is squarish.

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I love our double sink. (Sink pictured is similar to ours.) One side is longer than the other, and they are both deep. I keep a dish drainer in the smaller side for the dishes I hand-wash throughout the day (coffee mugs, lunch plate, miscellaneous stuff I don't put in the dishwasher). The other side is deep and long enough to handle any of my pots, pans, pizza stone, sheet pans, etc.

If I didn't have the second sink, the dish drainer would have to be on the counter, which I don't think would look very neat.

Personally, I hate double sinks. If we visit our kids homes and I help washing dishes after a large gathering, their double sinks are a pain. The sinks are too small to hold a large pan. When we come to TV in a couple weeks and work out the details for a house we hopefully will have built in Osceola Hills, we will definitely want to request a single sink in the kitchen.

Hi I vote for the biggest, deepest double sink you can fit and afford.
Good luck with your new project. Connie

I have had both a double sink and single sink. Go for the single sink! They now make nice drain pads you can put on your counter when needed to dry dishes. When you are finished with the pad you can store it away.

Our new house came with a double sink. I found it very awkward, as larger pieces would not fit in it. We had the sink replaced with a large, deep, granite composite single sink. It's perfect!

I love my apron front farm sink. It has a 60/40split, very deep and is big enough for my largest pans.

Single, large for sure !

double especially concerning the garbage disposal, rinsing

I've never used a garbage disposal and never will. Why junk up my drain system when I can toss it out for pickup.

I prefer a double sink. And a high faucet with a spray.

We are going with the low divide. You can wash a few dishes without wasting water filling the entire single sink. The large pans can can be done using the entire sink if needed.

Agree use it sparingly but glad its available to me.

yep my set up also

To each his own, right? I love my double sinks. They are not like my mother's shallow, small double sinks, nor the ones we had in the '70s and '80s. They are big enough for all my pots and pans, and I can fill a sink full of suds to hand-wash the Christmas dishes and not have to store a plastic dishwashing pan somewhere.

I have used my disposal for 40 years with no problems. Yes, there are some things that just don't work in a disposal but the key is small batches and running lots of water. If you have very old plumbing or a septic tank it may be a different story.

It appears you have 50/50 answers. I guess it all depends on personnal preference.

We have a double large stone sink, should have made it a single

I am not sure what a low divide is, but I installed a two thirds/one third double sink. The big one holds my biggest roasting pans, the small one can be used to clean out that lost plate found after you ran soapy water for the roasting pan. I have a disposal in each one which is a godsend.

It's less work to simply toss the garbage, I don't have to use any water & again, why junk up my drain system with fat from the macerated food. Let the seagulls eat it at the dump. [emoji6]

You throw that out?? That is the best part of any meal!!!

One doesn't put fat down the disposal. And I don't like the smell of rotting broccoli every time I open the bin door.

If it crawls, swims or walks there's fat in it.

The amount of fat in that's left over at our house is so tiny as to be negligible. We could live here 40 more years and not have a problem. I know because my SIL has done it in a house that's over 100 years old. And they eat a heckuva lot more meat than we do.

Kitchen Sink
 

This conversation is dumb. I quit [emoji15]