Escape Into Cartoon Kitchens: What Are Your Favorites?

We often think of escapes at this time of year as getaways to distant places. But another great escape is that into the animated world. One favorite cartoon kitchen that caught our imagination from the start was the one from Ratatouille.

All of that copper cookware! Those huge ranges with brass-trimmed hoods and rails! That black and white floor! And the skylights!

Then there's Linguini's small apartment kitchen (above). While a far cry from the professional one at Gusteau's, is also charming. In fact, we've gotta wonder if it's what started our preoccupation with attic kitchens.

Is there a favorite animated kitchen out there that you've escaped to on screen? Please share below - we'd love to check out some other awesome cartoon kitchens that have inspired you. And to see more of the kitchens from Ratatouille, visit Movie.aol.

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Comments (18)

The kitchen from "Beauty and the Beast"!
Not only a warm and bustling environment for making delicious "gray stuff", but also able to defend itself against attack!

Ratatouille is honestly the the only cartoon kitchen that I can remember! I loved that one though! I look forward to reading what other people say because maybe it will jog my memory about past cartoons that I have forgotten!

My husband and I just about keeled over when we saw the Ratatouille kitchen in the movie. We have been coveting it ever since! I absolutely adore that movie! I could do without the part at the beginning with the crazy old lady shooting at the rats though - that scared the living daylights out of my then-4-year-old, and it wasn't at all necessary for the story.

I liked the kitchen in Cinderella, with the dutch door to the yard. ahhh, i wish i could have a fresh breeze in mine.

foxconfessor -- I'd forgotten about that Cinderella kitchen, but your dutch door description snapped it right back into my memory! What a fun topic.

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It's not a cartoon, but I love the kitchen in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang :)

I thought of the Cinderella one, too.

can I just have the entire incredibles house?

The kitchen (ok, ok, bakery) in Kiki's Delivery Service

Being a gamer of some minor dedication, there are a handful from video games that have always appealed to me:

- The kitchen at the Snowpeak Ruins, in Legend of Zelda, Twilight Princess. It's one of the few parts of the manor that are actually in use, and it's got a homey, rusticness about it that I've always liked.

- The kitchen in Peach's palace in Paper Mario 64. As well as Tayce T.'s kitchen. Paper Mario is and always has been one of my favourite VG series, it's just so obscenely cute.

- The basement kitchen's of Guardia Castle in Chrono Trigger. It's quite frantic, in the two ages that you can visit it, with people running around and a crazy chef yelling orders.

- All of the kitchen's in my Jamie Oliver video game. I love that game! It's got about 90% of everything I need to simulate having free reign in the kitchen.

@PreludeInZ - YES! The Twilight Princess kitchen and Chrono Trigger kitchen both came to mind for me, too!

I love the mid century modern kitchen in The Incredibles.

The kitchens in the Coraline movie was quite nice too, both the real mother's spacious but old kitchen and the other world's evil mother's modern kitchen.

Not a cartoon, but I would go with the Wallace & Grommett kitchen! All those gadgets! Make toast and put your pants on at the same time!

Not really the kitchen, but the magical washing of dishes and autonomous tea set from the Sword in the Stone...

i second the Wallace & Grommet kitchen!

really enjoy the kitchen scene in "sleeping beauty." the kitchen itself is not that awesome but the highjinks are pretty sweet.