Kitchenette

A kitchenette is a cooking area in small apartments, hotel rooms, college dormitories, or office buildings. It usually consists of a small refrigerator and a microwave oven or a hotplate, and possibly a sink. New York City Building Code defines a kitchenette as a kitchen of less than 7.4 m² (80 ft²) of floor space.Department of Buildings. Interior Environment. New York City. Retrieved on 2007-10-25.

The term was coined in 1901 by Andrew J. Kerwin in the pages of The New Yorker magazine.Editor (1938). Jottings. American Speech. Retrieved on 2007-10-25. He used the diminutive -ette to indicate a small kitchen.

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