Just starting plans for my first outdoor kitchen. Would love to hear thoughts about permanent installation or leave the cooking devices portable. Planning for a wood fired pizza oven, Weber 22" Performer and Weber 18" WSM. I'm thinking fixed for the pizza oven and leaving the other two as is. Thanks for your thoughts!
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Outdoor kitchen - built in or moveable?
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- Blue Earth, Minnesota
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LSG Adjustable Grill/Smoker, MAK Pellet Grill, Large BGE with Several Attachments from the Ceramic Grill Store, Weber Gasser, Cast Iron Pans & Griddle, Grill Grates, Mostly Thermoworks Thermometers, Avova SV Stick, BBQ Guru Controller and Fan
A permanent Pizza Oven is cool but an option would be a XL Kamado that's somewhat built in. I agree to keep your other cookers portable.Be sure to show us your completed kitchen. Have fun with it!
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My outdoor kitchen is on our 2nd-story deck, a mile from the ocean in So Cal. Propane grill with side burner, propane smoker, glass top bar with two shelves underneath that serves as prep station as well as buffet for larger parties (pre-Covid). The splurge was my sink - it’s cold water only and a graywater drain, but just being able to wash my hands without running inside the house, let alone wash veggies to prep - it raised my game. Nothing’s permanently mounted but the sink - gives more freedom to replace equipment when that’s needed, or re-arrange if I get a wild hair.
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Plus 1 on the sink. Having running water in/near your outdoor cooking area is a major upgrade.I have hot and cold water. It's in the backyard, right in the grass/dirt. No fancy patio or deck here. Also, my sink is a double bowl which is much less practical for this purpose than the big single bowl you have, but I got it, with the faucet, for $10 at a yard sale so I couldn't pass it up. I just built a basic stand alone base out of pressure treated 2x4's and a piece of ½" PT plywood.Last edited by Dewesq55; July 19, 2020, 09:54 AM.
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I agree with the good points about having a sink. Thanks!
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- Aurora, IL
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Smokers & Grills- Weber Original Kettle Premium 26"
- Weber 22" Performer Deluxe
- Weber 22"
- Weber Smokey Mountain 18.5
- Weber Smokey Joe
- Char-Broil Promo H2O Smoker
- Cal Flame P Series P4
- Coleman Road Trip Grill (Tailgating)
Thermometers- No name brand
- A wireless unit - not sure of the brand
Accessories- Slow 'N Sear
- Drip 'N Griddle Pan
- Bar-B-Que PartyQ
- Weber Rapid-Fire Chimney
- Smokenator
Beverages- Beer: Sam Adams, Heineken
- Other: Tequila, Margarita
Hobbies- Grilling / Smoking & Cooking
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Real Name: Wayne
Location: Aurora, IL
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I have a drop in gasser but left an open space for the 26 Weber or 18 WSM. I was planning a Lone Star Grillz but they don't make the one I want anymore.
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I think a lot of it has to do with where you live and how you will protect things. I live in Massachusetts and my "outdoor kitchen", does not have roof. So I like to keep my stuff portable so I can wheel it inside when not in use and keep it protected. Plus leaving it out in a NE winter would not be advisable.
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- Mar 2016
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- Sunny SoCal
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Cooking gadgets
Weber Summit Charcoal Grill Center
Weber Summit Platinum D6
Blue Rhino Razor
Dyna-Glo XL Premium Dual Chamber
Camp Chef Somerset IV along with their Artisan Pizza Oven 90
Anova WiFi
Thermometers
Thermapen Mk4 - ThermaQ High Temp Kit - ThermaQ Meathead Kit - ThermaQ WiFi - ThermoWorks IR-GUN-S - ThermoWorks Signals & Billows - ThermoPop -ThermoWorks ProNeedle - ThermoWorks TimeStick Trio x2 - and a Christopher Kimball timer - NO, I do not work for ThermoWorks...I just like their products.
Other useful bits...
KitchenAid 7-qt Pro Line stand mixer
A Black & Decker food processor that I can't seem to murder
A couple of immersion blenders, one a "consumer" model & the other a "high end" Italian thing. Yes, the Italian one is a bit better, but only marginally
Instant Pot Duo Evo Plus 8-qt + accessories like egg-bite & egg holders
All-Clad pots & pans, along with some cast iron...everything from 7" Skookie pans to 8.5qt Dutch ovens
Weber GBS griddle, pizza stone, and wok
Knives range from Mercer to F. Dick to "You spent how much for one knife? One knife?!" LOL
Well, all my stuff is more or less portable...but then so am I. LOL
Sometimes things get moved around but I’m pretty happy with the layout at present. But adding or changing something could be problematic if everything was built in...
A wood fired pizza oven would be cool...but for now I do them in my Camp Chef "Artisan Oven" on my Somerset IV or in my Summit charcoal.Last edited by surfdog; July 19, 2020, 01:11 PM.
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All my stuff is movable. But let’s be real here. I’m NOT moving any of it. If I sell the house, honestly it would be easier to just buy new stuff than move my old stuff.
so I am going to strongly advocate for built in. You will not regret it.
Also plan for a sink with running water. Doesn’t need hot and cold UNLESS you want to be big pimping. I have a sink outdoors and it is awesome.
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Current cookers:
Rec Tec RT700 "Bull" pellet cooker
Smokin-It model 2 electric smoker w/ Maverick 732 temp monitor and cold smoking kit
Weber Genesis 3 burner gas grill w/ rotisserie
Charbroil Grill2Go gas grill
Weber 22" Performer Deluxe kettle grill w/ThermoPro TP-20S temp monitor
Onlyfire rotisserie kit for 22" kettle
Weber Smokey Joe
SnS Deluxe
Vortex
The Orion Cooker convection cooker/smoker (two of them)
Pit Boss 29â€, 3 burner griddle
Joule Sous Vide circulator
Favorite beer: Anything that's cold!
Favorite cocktail: Bourbon neat
Everything in my outdoor kitchen is moveable. But my "kitchen" consists of all 7 of my cookers in the garage stall right out the door to the garage from inside the house. I have two cheap plastic folding tables set up there for prep etc. When I cook, I roll the appropriate cooker to the just outside the overhead door and slide the tables over to where I need them. (See my avatar) If weather is bad, I roll the cooker to just inside the overhead door. The real kitchen is just a few steps through the door into the house. Works like a charm and only cost me about $50 for the folding tables. 🤷â€â™‚ï¸
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