Mobile Kitchen???

[Luce Dell'Amore]

Hi
We need some ideas and inspiration.

We are currently restoring a Trullo under a DIA so that we have somewhere to stay whilst we wait for planning permission to extend the property. The problem is that when the project is complete, the kitchen will be in the extension, so we need to construct a temporary kitchen in the structure we are currently restoring.

We have decided to site it in a room that will eventually be a bedroom with an ensuite but the challenge is to include a kitchen that will be easy to remove when the extension is built. We plan to have the plumbing for the kitchen sink next to the ensuite for obvious reasons but were thinking that as we will be doing a fair amount of eating outside it would make sense to have some sort of mobile kitchen that we could use to cook inside and out and of course would need no installation making removal easy. Also when the new kitchen is built the mobile cooker could just be used outside.
Now, I can find mobile gas BBQ's but cannot find any sort of mobile unit with gas burners and a preperation area. Has anyone got any suggestions?

Sorry for the rambling explanation!

Thanks

Robin

[marco]

ciao luce i don't know what your tastes are but if it is practicallity you want then ikea have some good ideas especially in there free standing range (varde)
IKEA | Cucine modulari freestanding | VÄRDE cucina modulare | VÄRDE | Minicucina ciao marco

[Gala Placidia]

Cooking outside is not a problem as, besides a barbecue you can also buy cooking elements, both gas and electric and even a small oven. You can put those on any working surface, any table would do, add a good chopping board and basically you have a kitchen. The problem will be a sink and whatever needs plumbing. Have you considered the possibility of building a small outside kitchenette with sink and plumbing? I have seen houses which have one and I always thought that it was a clever idea. You can adapt the IKEA elements to any layout. Nevertheless, you will also need to have some kind of provisional kitchenette indoors until you build the new one. But the outdoors one may prove very handy.

[Luce Dell'Amore]

Thanks very much for the ideas. I accept I will have to plumb a sink in but I have seen somewhere a mobile cooking unit on wheels that has, preperation area, 4 ring gas hob & an oven. That I could use indoor and out. Of course I cannot remember where I saw it and can't find it now! Typical!

[jackie C]

If its just something for cooking you want how about one of the bottled gas cookers that are so common in italy. It looks like something from the 1950 but generally has 4 gas rings and an oven/grill. The gas bottle is hidden away in the cabinet next to the oven. They can be found in Auschen or Euronics for about 200 euros.

Jackie
PS they also have a small central preparation area and usually a lid that covers the hob which might be useful if kept outside

[deborahandricky]

ikea do a cupboard kitchen ........called varde .......good luck

[sueflauto]

I'm in rented accommodation for who knows how long so wanted something cheapish. I've used freestanding stainless steel units from IKEA from their Udden range. Would be useful in the workshop or cantina once it's time for you to move on.

[jackie C]

Have tried to attach picture of cooker but not sure if this has worked as its the first time I've tried this but hell - here goes

Jackie

ps Wow - I did it!!

[Mathematician]

We used our "old" small gas cooker on legs no casters, I'm afraid, to set up a "summer kitchen" outdoors under cover but not enclosed, to do the canning, preserving, jam-making, boiling down passata, etc., when we bought a more modern and larger range for the indoor kitchen. Cold water plumbing was already out there (in the form of a spigot), it was easy and convenient to add an old-fashioned porcelain sink with big prep area next to it. Also have had good experiences with Ikea Varda line here in the US, where we've moved one kitchen twice between rental units as we upgraded.

[Luce Dell'Amore]

Thanks for all you input, it has given me some ideas. I have also remembered where I saw the mobile units bulthaup, kitchen living space - Products - system 20 Of course it would be one of the most expensive kitchens around - so IKEA sounds a smarter and cheaper idea