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Kitchens also began to change in their social outlook. For wealthy classes, kitchens were still working areas that were often a good distance away from the dinning areas. For middle classes, kitchens were next to or near dinning areas. For the middle class, therefore, as kitchens became cleaner due to better burning stoves and availability of water, kitchens began to become a new type of social space. People began to place tables and other furniture to use kitchens as social gathering spaces, while dinning rooms were used more for more formal dinners.
Refrigerators became smaller throughout the mid 20th century, allowing these to be increasingly fitted into kitchen spaces. During the early to mid 20th century, new kitchen designs began to emphasize smaller kitchens that were intended to be used as efficient spaces for food preparation. This led to the reduction in the use of kitchens as social spaces. Food was still sometimes smelly, making the use of kitchens as social spaces not always ideal.
What changed, however, was the innovation of the extractor fan, which now helped to draw away smoke from burnt food and smelly cooking. With the removal of smells, kitchens in the 1980s once again, in both middle class and wealthy homes, began to revert to as social spaces.
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