>>1298206When you buy or rent a home in Germany, you should have no expectation that a kitchen is included. There is a room that you could use as a kitchen. That room may have a few old cabinets and a sink, but mostly, it will be a completely empty room with electrical outlets and plumbing hook-ups (at least you know where the sink is supposed to go I guess lol)
Yes, your “kitchen” will most likely have nothing at all in it. Oftentimes, they last owners have not only taken all the appliances, but also the counter tops, light fixtures and literally every single thing in the room.
When you rent or buy a place, you have to go out to a kitchen store and buy a custom kitchen to fit into the kitchen room of the place you are renting. I still have a hard time getting my head around this — why people take custom made kitchens away from the room they were custom built to fit in when they move…they aren’t going to fit in their new kitchen, but they take them anyway.
Who was the first moron to rent a house with no kitchen and be happy about dropping a few thousand Euros buying a kitchen for house he didn’t own?
tldr, most yuros don't have refrigerators which is why the EU doesn't mandate egg washing. They don't even know what a kitchen looks like IRL, only from American movies
