Do a low divide...best of both worlds. Although I love my large single! Some people get Rubbermaid dish bins to "create" a double bowl when needed.

I dry mine on the counter or hand dry and put away. Most of my stuff goes in the dishwasher...even pots and pans mostly unless they aren't very dirty.

I had one of the roll up dish racks like the one below in my old house and it worked well. I used it for washing big veggies too, like bell peppers. (Now I use a drying pad on the counter for hand wash dishes.) I did notice that I needed to clean the ends every so often, as they would sometimes get gunky and I had white counters in my old place. They're inexpensive enough that you could get one before your remodel and use it for awhile to see what you think.

There are so-called workstation sinks, wide stainless troughs with accessories that slide around on rails, including racks and baskets and cutting boards. Some are ludicrously wide, but there are more reasonably sized ones. They take away from counter space but have some benefits.

Or you can set a rack or tub or rack-in-tub in a large single sink.

Both of the above expose the drying dishes to more splashing when someone uses the sink.

I think function over form, for something as heavily used as the sink.

I have a single bowl large "workstation sink" and would never go back to a double bowl however low the "divide" is.

Mine came with a "rack" that has holes in it. I generally keep this to one side of my sink and use it as an extension of my counter. I also put anything that is wet there to drain including washed produce as well as stuff that I handwash.

Because mine is a work station it enabled me to get a much larger sink than I otherwise could have gotten because it effectively acts as additional counter space in my small urban kitchen. For example I can prep right over the sink with a very stable cutting board.

Mine also has an offset drain in the rear which means that the pipes don't divide the sink cabinet in two and so I have space below the sink for my disposal as well as a pull out garbage can.

I have a 33” double bowl now and I still use a small silicone mat to dry the few handwashing items. I’ll be going to a 25” or 27” single bowl in my upcoming small reno to buy back some counter space. Most things go in dishwasher so I’m not keen on a big sink taking up my counter space.

We don't have that many "drying dishes" and what we do have gets put away as soon as possible.

I did an integrated drainboard when I designed my current kitchen in 2021. Sink is 30" and drainboard is 18". I use one of those roll-up mats shown in the photo a few posts above, which you can see on the left side of my photo. The DW sits below the drainboard, so I didn't need a large sink cabinet.

Out of 100 customers in my sink replacement business, 95 will replace a double with a single sink, 3 will get a low divide, and 2 another equal full divide. In 5 years, no one has called expressing regret at getting a single bowl sink.

Most dishes and glasses dry in the dishwasher during the last part of the cycle. Single often used things get hand washed and hand dried so they can be replaced in their storage spots for the next use. Single bowl with a dishwasher is the setup' No drying rack.

An integrated drainboard turns counter space into dish drying space. I get why you don’t want that, I wouldn’t want that either. A workstation sink with a multipurpose drainboard allows you to use sink space for dish drying instead of counter space.

Thank you so much everyone! i will definitely be looking up some of the things mentuoned here and trying out that roll up mat now to see what I think. Every decision feels so big when you’re doing a remodel!

Mr Corlett, how many get the cast iron sinks with two compartments plus a third small one where the disposal sits? Remember those?

What am I missing? The dishwasher does the dishes. And the few items that are too big/delicate/unsuitable get washed and put on drying mat for hand drying. The roll up I bought resides in the oven’s warning drawer with sheet pans until I need it for plates.

My Mom lived alone and rarely cooked, so she didn't generate enough dishes to run the DW (plus it was really noisy in her small apartment). She would hand wash her few dishes, and use the DW as a drying rack.

"Mr Corlett, how many get the cast iron sinks with two compartments plus a third small one where the disposal sits? Remember those?"

I do remember. They are obsolete. Expensive to replace, but it can be done.

@Ally De - thank you for saying that! I feel like I should get a single bowl because it looks good and everyone seems to like it, but I do think I prefer a double bowl! I am trying to want a single and figure out how to make it function like a double because I do like to dry dishes in the second bowl and not on the counter, but I should probably just stick with a double if that's what I like!

There are still things which i just air dry on my rack suspended over the sink

Fragile stuff like stemmed glassware, oversized pots and pans or even bowls which take over a huge amount of space in a dishwasher, good silver, produce which i like to wash and dry before refrigerating. it is easier for me to soak a roasting pan in my large sink and then handwash anyway. Periodically i have hand washed tchotches which need to be air dried

Ally Dee, can I sit by you?

We remodeled our kitchen in 2013, replacing the standard 50-50 builder grade SS sink with a 60/40 offset. The large side was much larger than one side of the old sink, even though it fit in a 30" cabinet.

We lived with that sink for 8 years before we moved. Now that we are redoing our current kitchen, we bought the exact same sink. I can hardly wait to have it installed! (countertop install is still a coupe of weeks off).

I’m in the large, single bowl sink camp. It’s what I prefer because we had a large family (empty nesters now) so I have a lot of large cookware that I still prefer to use and the large, single bowl sink fits those easily. I just dry my hand washed items on the spot most of the time, though I occasionally let certain items reside on the counter on a mat next to the sink for a short time. (Like my vitamix container, which I don’t use that often, but it drip dries in that spot.) However, it’s perfectly fine if you prefer a split sink, and you should go with that if you are comfortable with your dish cleaning habits. I just remember the days when our family was young and I wrestled with washing those large pans in a too small sink and getting everything all wet in the process... so big, single bowl for me forever! Hahahaha!

I'm in the double-bowl sink camp, especially if you only have one sink in the Kitchen. We have a 70/30 double bowl sink in a 36" sink base. We went from a 50/50 double bowl sink that we both disliked in our old Kitchen, to the 70/30 that seems perfect. (My DH usually does the dishes and when I asked if he wanted a single-bowl sink, he said he** no!) [I would definitely say no to another 50/50 sink!]

The bigger (21.5"W) bowl is plenty big enough for large tasks w/o being too big. All my pots & pans w/handles, cookie sheets, casserole dishes, refrigerator shelves (except 36"W bottom shelf), squirrel cage from my VAH range hood, etc., fit in the this bowl.

The smaller bowl (10.5"W) is small enough to soak small things w/o using too much water, to wash veggies/fruit, or to hand wash smaller items like knives and wood/wooden-handle spoons, etc.

We usually dry as we go along, so don't use a drying rack. The few times we don't, we put on a clean dish towel spread out on the counter until we're done washing and then dry them and put them away. I have read, though, that air-drying is actually more sanitary b/c dish towels can transfer bacteria to dishes -- so we always use a clean dish towel.

I would not want a sink bowl so large that I have purchase a bin to put in the sink for smaller tasks -- I don't have room to store it near the sink! (One more fairly large item to try to find room to store near its point of use.)

BTW...we do have two sinks in our Kitchen. My prep sink is a single-bowl sink, but it's only 15-3/4" square, so it's not that large. The double-bowl sink is the cleanup/main sink.

We're looking at a house right now with a single bowl apron sink and my DH is not happy about it. However, it has other things he loves, so I think they will trump the sink -- we may change it out later if he cannot adapt to it (assuming we purchase the house).

ETA: Correct the dimensions of prep sink.

Thank you!!

I am also in the double sink group, and am waiting to see what we can do in our new house - currently a single sink with a bar sink outside the main working area. My husband I often cook together, and I like to have a separate sink for when I am baking.

Bar sinks are only good for emptying leftover drinks. For a secondary sink you really want at least an 18" wide sink. My island "prep" sink is 18" x 18" x 10" tall and I wouldn't want anything smaller.

@akrogirl32 -- I agree with Chispa, get a prep sink, not a bar sink. (You may have meant prep, but I wanted to bring it up.)

Bar sinks are small and shallow, they're meant for filling or dumping a glass of water. Prep sinks, on the other hand, are deeper and bigger. Mine is OK for most things, but I sometimes wish it were bigger. It's interior 15-3/4" square and 7-5/8"D. (I misspoke above, I've since corrected it. It's a corner sink in a 36" corner sink base.) I would not go any smaller -- 18"W or more is better.