The cook and clean? Or food room? I suppose "the room where I spend far more of my time than I want to" is too much of a mouthful, isn't it?

Some are calling the eating area attached to the kitchen the "hearth room", whether there is a fireplace or not. Let's extend that meaning to the food prep room, consider the oven a modern day hearth. Warm, cozy name.

How about the old term "keeping room?"

I'm thinking something with "culinary" in it.... maybe?? At least that's all I have so far in my lil brain... Culinary room? IDK... Keep posting!! =)

I call ours the SuperMassiveBlackHole. I named it after the refrigerator which came with the house.

Also been known to call it Kitchen Stadium...from the Iron Chef series... :)

I like "Preparation Station" :)

while i am very interested in naming and renaming rooms, i'm thinking my family would think i was nuts if i started calling it something other than the kitchen.. but... how about 'the most expensive room in the house"?

Agreed, nnigrt, but it's got to start somewhere! =) I vote for being the trend setter!

Culinary Haven perhaps?

Command central. Everything happens here,

even the names "great room" "hearth room" and "keeping room" make me throw up a little. i'm afraid i'm not one of the troops you are looking for for your war on kitchen. LOL.

War on kitchen! LOL!

There was a great PBS show where an English barrister referred to his wife as, She Who Must Be Obeyed. Perhaps for the person who spends most of the time cooking and cleaning the kitchen, it should be called, That Which One Should Avoid.

The heart of the home!

mia, i loved rumpole!

The Dine & Ditch? Everyone else shows up after the food is ready, eats and then takes off. I cook, I serve, I clean.

Actually, Rumpole (or rather, the author John Mortimer) took the phrase from Rider Haggard's novel, She: A History of Adventure . "She" is Ayesha, White Queen in Africa, who is so beautiful that any man who beholds her is enchanted. Her full name means She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed. So, as always, Rumpole is being heavily ironic. It was written in 1887 and has never been out of print. It is so not PC.

I'm sure my husband would agree to calling me "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed" but not because of my beauty.

Hmmm very different now with the skids mostly gone...kitchen is a happy place to drink bubbly and walk around naked.
Although if we started calling it the Love Shack Bar and Grill, they might stop eating at home entirely...

Dawn, he has a deep appreciation of your ability to decorate despite accessories like prosthetics...not many women could show such adaptability and competence! He knows he has a find!

I like dreamhousethilo's Command Central. Around here it could also be called Grand Central, as in Station, because most everything that goes on in our home comes or leaves through the kitchen.

I should add that I love using older names for rooms of our home since it's a Queen Anne Victorian in style, though built in this century. We have lady's and gentleman's parlors instead of living and family rooms, a library instead of a home office (thought ours is filled with books on bookshelves, a sun room (still called that now) and a sleeping porch (instead of a balcony), but I have not heard of any other name for the kitchen from that era called anything but a kitchen. So for me, it will stay a kitchen.

Well, if nngirt is a troop, it could be called the mess hall. Or galley if on a ship. We could borrow from another language: cuisine (Fr), cocina (Sp), cucina (It). Grand central would fit my house really well, as well as command central.

LOVE using the Fr or Sp names... Now we're talking!

A kitchen in the Tower of Pisa would be called "the lean cuisine"
:-D

In my last house, I called mine (after reno) "My Big Bad Kitchen." Man, do I miss it. It was the hardest thing to leave for this one...this one is fugly, full of oak and dumb, black appliances. It is a dark hole. Someday... (which is why I Houzz) :)

I like the Latinate variations, especially cucina. Everything Italian is delizioso!

So.... Looky at what I found today at a yard sale for a mere $3. My kitchen will henceforth be called "Cucina"! Could I be happier and feel more blessed? Nope, not today. (Hope you could see the word on the sign... Had to take the pic looking in to the light.)

Can't go with "don't use; stays clean"?

Robin - Perfetto! e Buon appetito in your cucina!