Outdoor Kitchens

Outdoor kitchens are the latest in-thing 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 out of doors and the cooking smells are borne away on the wind. Cleaning is a simple task as well. An outdoor kitchen can be as humble or as impressive as you want.

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

If you design your outdoor kitchen properly, you will have room for everything that you normally use for cooking right to hand 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 build 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 best if you have a built-in gas cooker and a portable charcoal barbecue unit. Some things definitely 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 costly to run, as we all know. If you have your home in a warm climate, you will be able to cook in the open in the winter too.

Where I live now, the lowest temperature throughout 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 simply 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 preparing 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 passable size for a family or for having a few friends over, but there is nothing to stop you from making it as large as a ball room, if you have the room. Imagine 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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