Outdoor Kitchen Ideas

Outdoor kitchens are the most recent craze from here to Timbuktu

. In a way it is easier to cook outside and it is definitely cleaner. There is normally more room when you prefer to cook outside and the cooking smells are taken away on the wind. Cleaning is a cinch as well. An outdoor kitchen can be as modest or as grand as you want.

Some individuals create little more than a barbecue, but others go the whole hog and make an outdoor kitchen that is as plush as their indoor kitchen. One of the good things about an outdoor kitchen is that it is exposed. You could have a roof and as few as one wall. This gives protection from the rain, but still allows you to be cooking in the open air.

If you design your outdoor kitchen well, you will have space for everything that you normally use for cooking at your finger tips so that you will not have to keep traipsing back and forth to the indoor kitchen for pots and pans or ingredients.

A lot of people make their outdoor kitchen incorporating a charcoal grill, but many soon go over to gas. The best kitchens are the most flexible ones, so it might be better if you have a built-in gas cooker and a portable charcoal barbecue unit. Some things certainly taste better when grilled over charcoal, but some people cannot bear the mess.

Cooking outdoors in such a kitchen can work out less expensive as well, because in the summer, cooking indoors would mean having ventilators and the air conditioning on, which are expensive to run, as we all know. If you live in a warm climate, you will be able to cook in the open in the winter too.

Where I live now, the lowest temperature during the year if about 20 C or 68 F, so we cook in the outdoor kitchen all year round and always have done. Our indoor kitchen was built because, originating from Europe, it just seemed normal for a house to have an indoor kitchen. Sp, when I had our house built, I had a kitchen put in. That was four years ago and we have never used it for more than making a sandwich or coffee in.

If you make the roof big enough, you can lay a big enough area with tiles to seat quite a few people. Five by five metres (think yards for metres, if you are uncertain) is a reasonable size for a family or for having a few friends over, but there is nothing to stop you from making it as big as a ball room, if you have the room. Think of the do's you could hold in your outdoor kitchen then!

I would not like to have to go back to cooking in an indoor kitchen again. It feels so right to be cooking al fresco. You really get the feeling of space. The nearest I got to that in Europe was cooking with the kitchen window open, but cooking in an outdoor kitchen is far better than that.

by: Owen Jones

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