I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and say perhaps it’s a deep freezer that is only opened occasionally, and I guess is pretty well sealed as long as it’s closed.
The kitchen appears to have one of those built-in fridges that matches the cabinets:

  • katzschen@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    1 year ago

    I think that might be one of those fancy steam appliances to steam/press clothes, especially with it being next to the washing machine. I’ve seen them around Costco.

  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    Sure storing food there would be…problematic.

    But you don’t find the prospect of a cold beer within reach while having a shower or taking a shit appealing?

  • stravanasu@lemmy.sdf.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Sorry everyone but you’re all missing the obvious. You see that APPARENTLY there’s no WC in the bathroom? Well there you go. When you’re done, close the door, and it’s nicely mimetized as a drying cabinet 😎

    • just_chill@jlai.lu
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      I like the way you think, also, that thing is enough for the whole family to have showerbeers, or they live really remote and need 3 months supplies.

  • Treczoks@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    If there is not enough space in the rest of the house and this is the only place where it fits, well, that’s it then.

    I would do about everything to avoid that, primarily because of the hygienic aspects but also because of the above average air humidity in a bathroom.

  • Flyingpeakock@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    Maybe it’s a hot water tank? They can often look fridge-like however I’ve never seen one like that.

  • CoupleOfConcerns@lemmy.nz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Is this that much weirder than the widespread British practice of putting washing machines in kitchens?

    • Moegle@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yes, putting an electrical appliance in the bathroom is weirder than putting an appliance that requires both power and plumbing in the room that always has both power and plumbing.

    • Hubi@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Where else would you put it? Might as well just place it next to all the other appliances. We do it in Germany too, pretty sure it’s just a European thing.

      • wandermind@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        At least in Finland the washing machine (for washing clothes) is usually in the bathroom/shower room, like in the photo in this post.

        • just_chill@jlai.lu
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Finns also have saunas in their home, which is awesome but not really standard anywhere else.

      • half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        I think in the US we typically prefer for them to be out of sight. Houses here often have a small laundry room specifically for the washer and dryer. Barring that, they are usually tucked away in a closet (apartments or smaller houses) or in the garage or basement.

        • poppy@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          I wonder if this is one of those things the US benefits from having most of our homes built after indoor plumbing. A not insignificant portion of European homes were built before prolific indoor plumbing, no? So when homes were retrofitted for plumbing, it made sense it keep it all located in one place and then it became the style for all homes.

      • Madlaine@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        My family/me (in and around berlin):

        Me: WM in the kitchen

        Parents: WM in the bathroom

        Brother: WM in a little nook on the corridor(? Flurnische)

        Another Brother: WM in the basement (benefits of a house)

      • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        The houses I grew up in were both Victorian so bathrooms were built in only the 80’s or sometime like that, so they were on the ground floor and quite large. Both had the washing machines in the bathroom and not the kitchen due to this. The bathroom acts as part utility room.

        More modern places I’ve lived lack any form of utility rooms. In my current flat the washing machine is in the kitchen, there isn’t plumbing and space anywhere else for it.

  • mihor@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    That’s a sperm bank. Where else would you beat one off, in the kitchen? 😂