Recommendations for kitchen sinks

Choose the right sink for your personal kitchen design

Lots of questions need to be answered when planning a new kitchen, and even more decisions need to be made. If you don’t want to lose your bearings, you should think carefully about what you like to do in your kitchen and where you spend a lot of time. One underrated element of the kitchen is the sink. Although the majority of kitchen tasks take place around the sink, the choice of sink is often based on old habits. That’s why it’s worth thinking more carefully about your sink.

The basics of buying a sink: how can I tell whether a sink is high-quality?

Together with the sink design – which should fit with how you use it – there are a number of important criteria to bear in mind when making your choice. The most crucial of these are quality of the sink material and the workmanship. Together with ease of maintenance, these determine the longevity of the sink.

Everyone wants a good-quality sink

But what does good quality actually mean when it comes to a kitchen sink? What should you look for in particular?
The quality of a sink is the result of the material, its workmanship and any complementary components of the sink, such as the drain and basket strainer, and the overflow. Ease of maintenance, robustness and lots of other sink properties depend largely on the material. The material properties of stainless steel sinks, ceramic sinks or granite sinks made of silgranit differ from one another and should be weighed up carefully.

Manufacturing quality of a sink

You can determine whether a stainless steel sink has been manufactured to a high standard by details such as the sink’s radii and corners. The surface should be smooth and even in the rounded areas. Former welded joints in deep sinks should not be recognisable as such. Last but not least, high-quality manufacturing naturally means polished edges, without any sharp corners, on the sink itself and on any accessories and components.

Coordinated down to the last detail

With silgranit or ceramic, you can take a close look at the fitted components, such as the basket strainer and the overflow. Are these even with the sink material, do they fit exactly and sit in the middle? Then the job has been done well. As silgranit and ceramic sinks are produced differently to stainless steel, narrow radii are not feasible here to the same extent. Nevertheless, even with these materials, the surface of the rounded parts should always be smooth and even. There should be no colour gradients in the coloured sinks made of silgranit and ceramic, or particles in the material.