Easy IKEA mod: mixing bowl / butcher block counter

As a guy with just zero technical acumen, I really like these stupidly simple IKEA hacks, like the one where you turn a cheap IKEA table into a MAME cabinet. This one's less geeky, but way more useful: Maker Queen Esoterica (if that even is her real name) modified her IKEA kitchen butcher block counter to include a bowl and a plastic-lined trash bin.

All she did was cut a hole in the counter top and nuzzle the bowl inside what used to be the right-side drawer. Now, when she's chopping things, she can just slide the sliverings with her knife into the mixing pot, keeping her counter clean and maximizing culinary convenience. The inedible leavings get scraped into a front drawer, which is plastic lined.

What I especially like about projects like this is that if you fuck it all up (I will) you're out only 50 bucks or so.

Ikea kitchen hack: in-board bowl [MAKE]

[#1 posted by Chris Furniss , July 24, 2008 1:38 PM]

Thanks for this link, Mr. Brownlee. I've been looking for a good solution for a butcher block setup in my kitchen and this is perfect. I love the bowl. Pretty much the only thing Rachael Ray has ever been useful for - informing me about the wonders of the garbage bowl.