re: Our new kitchen is getting close to completion

Looks real good Dog! What kind of under-cabinet lights did you use. Mine are T-5's and I'm thinking of switching to LED's but they need to be less than 1" thick.

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Get rid of the glass cooktop in favor of a gas range and that'd be my dream kitchen.

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I mean it's decent and all, but dream kitchen? Wtf?

Looks really nice MD. Time for you to post some recipes out of that kitchen.

Where in Clinton?

I grew up there and the majority of my family is still living there.

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Where in Clinton?

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East side Cascades. I grew up in Byrd Heights on the west side of town, we moved there in 61 when I was in 6th grade. Graduated from CHS way back when Bill Clinton was a cub scout.

If my math is correct (never is) your formative time in Clinton would have just missed the WZZQ years - I'm gonna guess WRBC/WWUN provided your musical soundtrack.

Back to cooking, was your old kitchen gas? If so I'll be curious how you make the transition from gas to electric, plus if the new/different color temperature of the indirect LED lighting in your new kitchen -- vs. the original -- has any effect.

Just some random thoughts from an engineering mind. Kitchen looks great. Congrats.

Hi DT. Yes, I grew up with "Jocky Jim" McCullough at WRBC out on far North State Street, WWUN came later and there was always WOKJ "The black Spot on your radio dial" down on Lynch Street.

I actually remember the sock hops at the old Wahabi Shrine Temple on West Capitol Street and the Waggoner Club behind and above the Mayflower Café downtown Jackson. Also Teen Tempos on Saturday afternoons on Channel 3. Bought Wine once or twice from Red Hydrick across the pearl on Old Brandon Road. Went to the Varia, Skyview and Showtime USA Drive In Movies. Ate Pizza at Shakey's in Fordren Place across from the Capri. Saw movies at Paramount and Lamar theatres, also Royal one block west of Old Capitol. Remember Three Krystal burger joints downtown and the Pig Stand beside and connected to the Lamar Theater. Drank Country Club Malt liquor in the short cans. Last memory, cruising Shoney's parking lot at Westland Plaza. Oh I forgot, The Old Time Delicatessen at Colonial Mart on the corner of Northside Drive and I-55.

Good days.

We have owned 15 houses total, some gas and some electric ranges. The last 14 years in Meridian were electric and I have no problem cooking on an electric range. They just respond slower than gas, nothing more than that. Once you understand that they cook fine.

I like the LED color range. Our lights seem to be toward the blue spectrum, and that is different from incandescent and fluorescent that we have had in the past. The cost of LED is stiff right now, but I will never buy another incandescent or fluorescent bulb if I can avoid them. The life span of a LED is just too good and the KW power requirements are conserving. As I get older, I appreciate the brightness of LED more and more, helping out my old tired eyes.

I see where some consider an electric range a failure. There is no gas here so I will just have to suffer one more failure in my otherwise failure filled life.

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Old Tyme Delicatessen

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Irv

Are you doing this yourself and farming out to subs or do you have a GC? Definitely looks good!

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Are you doing this yourself and farming out to subs

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Farming out to subs, although the cabinet guys are doing most of it. They did the demolition and have set the cabinets and coutertops. We (the wife and I) did the backsplash and the lighting. We had a plumber do the sink demolition, the sink and disposal install and the dishwasher. The cabinet guys are coming back maybe this week to do the vent hood and replace two cabinet doors. At that point it is finished.