Okay, it's time to stock up the kitchen again.
This time our theme is "Bed & Breakfast," which doesn't really track with the packaging being designed to look like a shop window. A B&B is usually in a converted home, right? Not in a storefront? So, like, this box should be designed to look like a stately dining room or semi-industrialized kitchen or something, and that is definitely not what we got. Obviously it won't matter moments after opening it, but as the saying goes, "professionals have standards."
Like the Pastry Shop, this set's centerpiece is a mid-size
appliance - that is, not a large kitchen appliance, like an oven, nor a small kitchen appliance, like a toaster, but a secret third thing. Well, not a secret, it's a coffee maker. But not a home coffee maker, a fancy espresso machine. Maybe? I still think coffee is for losers, so this might be the most normal home coffee machine ever, and I've just got an outdated "Mr. Coffee" picture in my head, the equivalent of still thinking of "a TV" as being one of the ones with a big butt sticking out the back? It's molded in powder blue with light peach paint apps on the front and some white to help pick out the knobs on the front. The set includes two coffee cups, in those same blue and peach colors, and the pink one has a brown app in the bottom to make it look like there's a little bit of coffee in there already.
Continuing with the prep work, we get a frying pan. When I found this set at the store, looking at the contents through the front of the box, I thought the fried egg in the pan was part of the sculpt, but no,
that's a separate accessory. Neat! We also get a carton of six eggs, though if one is in the pan, shouldn't there be an empty spot in there? Since the egg's not sculpted into the pan, we get two things that can replace it: a slice of bacon, and a sausage. The sausage isn't the same as the hot dogs that came with the barbeque grill, because it's curved instead of straight, and the bacon gets a painted stripe down the center to make it clear what it's supposed to be.
We then have something that I tought was a cutting board, but is
(according to the back of the box) instead a slice of avocado toast. If this is toast, why is the slice of bread larger than the frying pan? That's excessive! The slices are sculpted on this one, unlike the egg above, but the paint is impressively clean, with no spillage or under-coverage to be seen. Nicely done, RMS International!
Continuing on to customer-facing items, we have a massive croissant, a stack of pancakes, and four muffins. The croissant is
yellower than the toast, but seems to be the same scale; it's just those two breads and nothing else. The pancakes get syrup and a pat of butter, surprisingly both sculpted on and not simply achieved by paint. Two of the muffins have blue cups and two have pink, but those aren't painted as nicely as the avocado was, with inconsistent coverage all the way around. Plus they're darker on the bottom than on the sides.
But speaking of impressive paint, there's a bowl of mixed fruit, various berries that are very well sculpted, and while they may not all have their own individual paint apps, the way they're done is one of the most
impressive pieces of work we can remember seeing on something that isn't a high(er)-end specialty toy. The entire piece is molded in light blue plastic, so that's the base color. Then there's a slightly darker blue over that, creating all the blueberries. Add a light red for strawberries, a darker red for some raspberries, two large white cubes that may be intended as pineapple, and you've got one surprisingly detailed piece! It's not as detailed as the image on the back of the box shows, but it's still great the way it is.
And finally, we wrap up with two condiments and a beverage, the bottled items. For the pancakes (and maybe the sausage/bacon), a brown bottle of maple syrup, with a red cap and a tan label; for the eggs (and maybe the bacon/sausage), a red bottle of hot sauce with flames on the front; and to wash it all down, a big bottle of orange juice, with a large white lid.
I got this set because I was impressed by the bowl of fruit, but all the pieces included are nice. The toast and croissant are weirdly large, but once all this stuff is crammed into the Muppet Kitchen, who's ever going to notice?
-- 05/10/26
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