3 Ideas For Kitchen Island Design

As more and more homes have to be built, more and more people are using kitchen island design ideas to maximize their kitchen space. Here are a few kitchen island design ideas that you might want to use as you plan that storage and extra work space for your kitchen.

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1. Incorporate electronics and plumbing into the island.

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A kitchen island is not only a work area or extra cabinet space. It should allow you to have everything you need within your reach. If you plan to chop vegetables and fruits on it, you will need a sink nearby. If you plan to toast bread the minute you slice it, or if you plan to bake cakes and pop them into the oven immediately, you will also need a built in stove.

2. Have both open and closed shelves in the island for more style.

Have open shelves for plates or saucers, and closed cabinets for knives and pots and pans. You might also want to have a dishwasher installed in the island, so that you can store your utensils easily.

3. Be creative.

Your kitchen island can have a wine rack, shelves to store your cook books, a bin for deep frying, or higher surfaces on which you can carry out slicing work separate from batter or mixing work. The possibilities are endless if you have a wide kitchen and a large island to boot.

Just be sure that you do not go overboard on the kitchen island amenities: a kitchen island is meant to keep everything within your reach, but don't store the wines next to the hot oven, or the dried spices next to the moisture-rich plumbing.

You can find more kitchen island design ideas at your friends' homes, so don't be afraid to consult with as many people as possible on the best kitchen island design ideas for your own space. With the best design meant for your needs, your kitchen island can make your kitchen look richer and dreamier.

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What To Look For When Buying a New Oven

An oven is one of the most common kitchen appliance that is used in various forms of cooking, such as the following:

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Heating

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Baking

Broiling

Roasting

Ovens are generally grouped into 2 common kinds: gas ovens and electric ovens. Then there are also microwave ovens (uses microwave radiation to cook or heat food) and convection ovens (uses a circulating fan to move hot air around the food inside the oven).

With this range of choices, not to mention the variety of features and designs available in ovens, shopping for one can be a difficult task. Below are some guidelines that you need to consider - helpful hints that will help you buy the right oven.

1. The location. Whether 'freestanding' (set in a range) or 'built-in' in walls (known as wall ovens), make sure that you measure the size of the oven against the location where you plan to have it installed. The location should not only have enough space; it should also be sturdy enough to support the unit.

2. The capacity. The "actual" size of the oven is defined by its capacity. The oven capacity refers to the amount of food or the size of the container that it can hold. The 'size', therefore, that you need to consider when buying an oven is the size of its interior (the cavity). Note that some ovens seem large on the outside but are actually smaller inside.

There are many things to consider when deciding on a particular oven capacity to buy. Some of them are the following:

Family size:

The amount of food you need to cook at one time (i.e., the oven capacity) depends on the number of people in your family. Below are some of the recommended oven capacity (in liters) for various family sizes (denoted by the number of members):

2 members - less than 29 liters

4 members - 20 to 29 liters

6 members - more than 30 liters

Usage:

The oven capacity should also depend on how you intend to use the oven. An oven that will be used for actual and all types of cooking will naturally require a higher capacity than that which shall be used as a mere supplement (such as defrosting or reheating food).

Cookware:

Make sure that the dishes (such as baking sheet, pan, and other cookware) that you regularly use will fit comfortably (and circulate freely) inside the oven.

3. The controls.

The control panel is where you manage and control the functions and operations of your oven, which can be any of the following:

Analog - mechanical switches that use knobs. Are less expensive but more durable; can also be less precise, since everything is set manually.
Digital - electronically-controlled push buttons. The most common nowadays, they can be more expensive and less durable; but they have more accurate and precise settings, since everything is set automatically.

Different ovens have various (and sometimes complicated) control panels, but all of them generally include these basic components:

Clock or timer displays - properly sets the length of time for cooking
Temperature settings - allows you to set the temperature for cooking.
Thermostat - senses and maintains a set temperature to stop or further the flow of heat. This prevents an overcooked food and an overheated oven.
Oven light - enables you to see the interior of the oven to check the status of the food the you are cooking.

4. Additional components. Some ovens may come with additional components, such as the following:

Oven rack - allows you to place more than one dish in the oven at the same time; should be thick and durable.
Rotisserie - a removable grill with a turning spit; for better and uniform grilling.

5. The add-on features. In addition to the basic functions, most ovens today are designed with additional (and advanced) features, some of which are as follows:

Clear-view window - it enables you to watch the cooking process without having to open the door.
Self-cleaning option - found at the control panel, pushing this button enables the oven to clean itself.
Lockout feature - can be a button in the control panel or a door lock switch, it prevents misuse or unintended and accidental operations, especially when cleaning the control panel or when there are children in the house.

6. The price. Of course, everything is greatly affected by the price, so it is important for you to set the amount that you would like to spend.

With these guidelines, you will surely be able to find the oven that is perfect for your money's worth.

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How to Build Your Own Pizza Oven

Your own outdoors pizza oven is a great idea, especially if you love pizza and frequently make it.

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Before you get started building your own pizza oven though, it's good to know that it's a whole different experience from making pizza indoors - it requires a bit more time to get the pizza out and so you have to make some good time each time you want your outdoors pizza treat.

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If you want to make it really easy on yourself, make sure that its not near anything that can burn easily, like grass that dries out a lot in summer.

Here's what you do to make an outdoors pizza oven:

1. Before you build your own pizza oven, you need to decide on the size of pizza oven that you want. At the place where the oven will stand, dig a pit that's as wide as however many pizzas you want to be able to accommodate at once. The pit itself should be 5 inches deep.

2. Line the sides of the pit with wood, and then over that and on the floor of the pit, put in concrete until the hole is full. Let this dry out. To make sure that you get it really dry and hard before you continue.

3. Its time to build the upper encasement, and to this, you should draw a line on the concrete where you want the encasement walls to stand and then add an extra couple of inches on each side. Now lay out your concrete bricks in whatever shape you want to build your own pizza oven in, Wait for these to dry and then add the other bricks to the outside of the concrete bricks and pack them tight using mortar.

4. You need to make a wooden support on the inside of the dome using 2x4's and plywood, so that you can make the bricks to line the inner part of the oven.

5. As you line the bricks on the inside, make sure that you leave enough room to slide pizza in and out, but not too big that you'll be losing heat through it.

6. You can do the final touches to your style. Use the template to guide you as you lay on the top part of the oven, making sure to let all the finishing touches dry. Don't rush them as a fault in these can lead to a fault all the way through the oven.

7. Stack the bricks outside of the oven, leaving a space to act as a chimney.

You need to let everything dry completely before you start baking. If you use your pizza over before its dry's, it may collapse. The best way to make it completely strong and dry is to fire the oven with small fires for some time so that all materials bed together. You will have built a pizza oven that can serve you for many years.

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Cuisinart Brick Oven - Combining the Classic Pizza Oven With Modern Convenience

The Cuisinart brick oven combines the classic brick oven philosophy and the modern electric oven design to bring you a ground-breaking and easy-to-use countertop brick oven.

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The Cuisinart brick oven brings pizza parlor perfection to your kitchen. You can now serve exquisitely baked brick oven pizza to your dining table. Your spouse and children will truly enjoy family dinners with the classic pizza oven taste and aroma exciting their senses. With this modern brick oven, you can cook or re-heat both fresh and frozen pizzas.

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This Cuisinart oven uses real bricks inside its showroom-class exterior and brings traditional high-heat oven cooking right on your kitchen counter. The 2 brick inserts in the side plus the pizza stone below retain enough heat to give you the crispiest crusts, the most succulent toppings and delectable cheese.

Cuisinart introduces classic design in modern cooking with their innovative countertop brick oven. The genuine bricks built inside this restaurant-class oven permit traditional brick-oven cooking on the countertops of modern kitchens. The polished industrial design and 3 cooking functions make this multi-purpose countertop oven an indispensable asset in your kitchen.

The Cuisinart brick oven feature an industrial-grade stainless steel housing for that showroom look in your kitchen. The non-stick coating in the interior surface with no bricks allows for easy cleaning after you use it. The 3 control knobs offers flexible bake, broil or toast cooking functions whenever you need them. You can cook simultaneously with this oven by using the 2 racks intended for multi-level cooking. The tinted glass oven window adds a classic yet sophisticated look for the oven and to reflect your cultured lifestyle. This also saves you time from regularly opening the oven door just to check the food.

The baking compartment has a capacity of 0.9 cubic feet and runs on 1,700 Watts of power. The oven has 2 fixed 500°F-rated brick inserts found in its inner sides. An additional removable lower baking stone is also included. The oven needs to be preheated for about 20 minutes or less depending on the cooking job. This combination ensure the intense brick-baked oven experience that you cannot find in other modern ovens.

Upon purchase, you'll get an oven unit with 2 brick inserts, a pull-stop cooking rack, a removable baking tray, a reversible broiling pan, a detachable rear crumb tray, an instruction/recipe booklet. The oven comes with an exclusive 3-year limited warranty.

Excellent for everyday and heavy-duty kitchen use. With this oven, you can roast whole chicken, steak, hams or salmon. It's also great for baking pizzas, lasagna, mini meat loaves, apples pies, cakes, muffins, pretzels, cookies or brownies. You can cook casseroles, quiche and broiled shrimp. The culinary possibilities are endless.

The Cuisinart pizza oven relives the good old days of baking bread or roasting chickens in old-fashioned wood-fueled brick ovens. This modern brick oven sitting on top of your kitchen counter can fool the untrained eye of its real talents. Once you experience baking with this kitchen wonder, you might forget using the stove or the microwave. Non-culinary experts might instead find themselves curious with learning the craft just to use the oven. So you better watch your self about that.

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Beko Electric Cookers

Beko electric cookers come in sizes from small to standard to suit the family kitchen. If you're looking for a tiny appliance - maybe because you're single, haven't much cooking space, or buying the appliance for a student you might want to consider the tiny MC112W.

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Compact Beko electric cookers

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The MC112W Beko electric cooker measures just (H)35.0 x (W)58.5 x (D)42.0 to fit into the tiniest kitchen - it's perfect for studio apartments or bedsits. It has two burners and a conventional oven/grill. The grill runs at a high power of 2 kW.

The oven has a quality glass door which drops down to open. There is thermostatic temperature control to the oven as well as a temperature indicator light and operation light for oven and grill.

Inside the MC112W Beko electric oven you'll find a full width shelf, enamel roasting tray and integral grill rack. The energy rating of the oven is a relatively efficient 'B'.

The only drawback to this miniscule Beko electric cooker is that the large ring cannot be used at the same time as the oven or grill.

This appliance is available in white.

Standard sized Beko electric cookers

Standard sized Beko electric cookers come in a rainbow of classic colours including white, silver, and black. The black Beko electric cooker has been designed to match the rest of the black Beko range which includes dishwashers, washing machines, tumble dryers and fridge freezers. It is possible to co-ordinate your entire kitchen with black appliances - a stylish new option many home owners are choosing.

The standard size Beko cooker typically measures 90cm high, 60cm deep and has a width of 50cm or 60cm. 50cm cookers are a slimline option for smaller kitchens. 60cm cookers will fit most kitchens. Choose the cooker depending on what will most comfortably fit your household.

Beko electric cookers have a choice of one or two cooking cavities. There are several options:

1 cooking cavity - this usually includes a fan or conventional oven, plus integrated grill in a single cavity. It is a cheaper option but can be inconvenient because you will not be able to roast and grill at the same time.

Oven and grill - this includes an oven (conventional or fan) and a separate grill.

Double oven - this incorporates two ovens (usually one fan and one conventional). The upper oven doubles up as a grill depending on what you need it for. This combination offers the greatest level of variation when cooking, and allows you to cook bigger meals or several courses at once. It is a good option for larger families and for those of you who regularly host dinner parties.

Hobs on Beko electric cookers

Electric hobs come in two major varieties; hot plates and ceramic. Ceramic hobs are the more fashionable option and offer ease of cleaning. They are simply a flat, ceramic plate with rings that glow red when hot. Because the ring glows red there is a level of safety included in ceramic hobs. You know not to place your hand on the red, glowing surface.

Hot plate hob options on Beko electric cookers are the more cost effective option, but they are slightly harder to clean.

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Definition and Historic Timeline of Toaster Oven

Toaster oven is an electrical appliance that works both as an oven and a toaster. It is a small appliance which can easily fit on a kitchen counter or table. The toaster oven has emerged as an integral part of every home in the modern times and has really evolved from being merely a bread toaster to a multi-purpose unit. Toaster ovens come in different kinds and sizes with many brands in the market producing them.

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Body: Toaster ovens can be defined as "an electrical appliance that functions as both an oven and a toaster and is small enough to fit on a kitchen counter or table." Toasted bread is called toast and other toastable products can be described as toaster pastry.

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The main function of the toaster is to toast the bread by heating it. The heat is usually produced by passing electricity through nichrome wires. The main aim of the toasting process is to reduce the water content in the bread, raising its temperature and charring its surface slightly.

But it was not always the electric toaster ovens that were used. Before the development of these electrical appliances, sliced bread was toasted by placing it in a metal frame and holding it over a fire or near to the fire by using a long-handled fork. The history of toasting bread over open fires goes back to at least 200 years and then people simply speared bread with a stick or a knife and held it over a fire.

History of Toaster Ovens:
The concept of toaster ovens developed from the electric toasters which were developed in the mid-nineteenth century. The first electric bread toaster was created by Maddy Kennedy in 1872. Crompton, Stephen J. Cook & Company of the UK marketed an electric, iron-wired toasting appliance in 1893 but this did not get the expected response and therefore there is no significant information with the Toaster Museum too.

In 1905, an Irish man Connor Neeson (1877-1944) of Detroit and his employer William Hoskins (1862-1934) invented chromel, an alloy from which the first high-resistance wire were made. These wires are used in almost all early electric heating appliances. This alloy was patented in 1906 sometime before the filing of patent application for electric toaster.

George Schneider of the American Electrical Heater Company, Detroit was the first person to file a patent application for an electric toaster.
The General Electricals released an electric toaster in 1909 that was patented under the name D-12 but it had to face some opposition from the Pacific Electric Heating Company's product Hotpoint which also catered to the same market segment.

The first toaster oven was invented in 1910 by a person called William Hadaway who built it for the Westinghouse Corporation which is still a leading producer of toaster ovens in the country. This was developed as a by-product of the electric stove.

Till this time, the bread had to be turned and roasted manually. But in 1919, the pop-up toaster was patented by Charles Strite. This type of electric toaster ejects the toast after toasting it.

In 1925, The Toastmaster Company started marketing a redesigned version of Charles Strite's toaster. It was the first household toaster which could brown both sides of the bread simultaneously. It had a time setter and could eject the bread after it was done. By 1926, this newer version was a huge success among the masses and had become a household name.

Till a few decades back, only bread could be toasted but with the changes in technology, one can toast frozen bread and also operate multi-layers in the oven to toast either two or four slices as per the requirement.

Today toaster ovens have horizontal electrical filaments instead of the vertical ones like that of a pop-up toaster. It also has a reheating function which allows the toast to be reheated without burning it. The toaster oven now has a glass door which has to be opened to pull out the detachable tray. Given its design, a toaster oven can also perform some of the functions provided by a regular oven, just on a smaller scale.

Thus, toaster ovens have come a long way from being mere toasters. They have developed into multi-purpose utilities.

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Outdoor BBQ Island

Do you spend time in the summer making delicious barbecue ribs on your outdoor grill? Well now you can stash the grill in the attic and build yourself an outdoor kitchen with all of the conveniences and comforts of the indoor kitchen and with a built in outdoor BBQ island.

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No more running into the house for things you need while the ribs are burning away. With an outdoor kitchen everything you need is right at your finger tips including a dining area in which to serve your newly barbecued ribs.

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An outdoor BBQ island has the grill located at the top of the island with convenient storage for the fresh ribs or steaks, condiments and sauces all in a refrigeration unit in the island. There is also convenient storage for the apron, towels, and utensils needed to cook with. For dining, there could be a storage compartment for dishes, flatware, glassware and mugs as well as serving dishes and platters. Certainly this type of grill is more convenient than the old outdoor grill. Besides, there is more time for you to enjoy the job of grilling and will give you more time to relax and enjoy the company of your family and friends

Your outdoor BBQ island can be gas (generally propane), electric or charcoal. They can be designed to have a cooking top with side burners and a warming oven or cooking oven and rotisserie. In some instances the island will also house a refrigerator and a place for the microwave. You can also have our barbecue island on wheels which will then give you the option of settling it down wherever you may want, either pool side or near the house. You can also make your barbecue island stationary and enjoy using it in the same place every time. When designing your outdoor kitchen, after you have obtained all of the necessary permits, researched the different prices of each component of the kitchen the first thing you want to look for is the outdoor BBQ island and not just because it's Dad's basic necessity.

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