I need a temporary kitchen,for about a year,any ideas?

[hifi]

I have a fridge and a microwave. Planning permission and building will take about 8 months. Meanwhile I will have to adapt a room to function as a kitchen. Anyone managed with a sink and bodged the rest?

[Brugmansia]

We have a temporary kitchen. It was supposed to be very short term but had been a bit longer than intended and is working OK..

We have a couple of free standing units from IKEA, including a double sink. We will be recycling these into our new utility room later down the line but they seem to have ok resale value on eBay. We picked up a basic electric cooker on Gumtree for £70. We still had our old fridge freezer which is free standing. For additional storage we are using some basic shelving units we already had.

The main thing that makes it OK is only having the essential equipment and crockery unpacked. It's not that bad, although I think out situation is helped by the room we are using being a decent size.

[shufflebum]

This is going to be me in a few months, I'm dreading it!

[steeking]

ikea do an all in one kitchen in a unit. i suppose it depends how much space you have. can you reuse a couple of your old kitchen units?

[Herhonesty]

Yes we did this - 2 shelving units, fridge, kettle and this from ikea www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S39817388/

Sold on on ebay didn't get too bad a price

It was fine - only annoying thing with microwave was you rarely eat together as you have to warm up stuff separately.

Knackers your microwave too!

[ILoveAFullFridge]

This might be us next year, I hope!

We have a room we can use as a temporary kitchen, but what about water?

[writingquestion]

those cooker pot things from lakeland seem to get rave reviews, ramoska? ramosa, somehting like that

[writingquestion]

www.lakeland.co.uk/brands/remoska?intcmp=INTSRCH:remoska

remoska!

[Lagoonablue]

Microwave plus a double electric hot plate will do for cooking. Get a combi microwave so you can cook properly too.

Set of open tall storage shelves from Ikea to put pans and plates etc on. Try and get a worktop fixed up.

We managed like this for a while.

[hifi]

thanks everyone will take a trip to ikea.

[lalalonglegs]

I managed with a sink, f/f, microwave and rice cooker for several months. I was very bored of pasta by the end of it but it's perfectly doable.

[fossil971]

We had a good four or five months with a kitchen initially at one end of a former bedroom, then in a corner of the lounge (or bedsit as it became).

I bought 2 cheap base units (no doors) from a place near us that advertised kitchens for £10 a unit - turned out to be odds and ends/cancelled orders from B&Q. Bought a very cheap used sink from ebay and taps, got that plumbed in temporarily in the old bathroom.

Bought a one ring induction hob (still occasionally useful for Christmas etc), borrowed a mini oven and used the microwave/slow cooker. We kept our electric shower operational till the very last minute for hot water. Else it would have been a lot of boiling kettles.
IIRC we boxed up loads of books and used the bookshelves for kitchen storage.

It's maybe £200 to get set up but saved us a fortune in that we could stay in the house.

[Crutchlow35]

We managed but we also had a George foreman grill too.

[Laska42]

An Intellichef might be worth looking at

[Artandco]

We Set up a George Forman grill, toaster, microwave combo ontop of a sideboard. Just used bathroom sink and plugged in fridge freezer. Was ok for 2 months. Might want a bit better if longer.

Tilda microwave rice was great! Just grill some meat/ fish/ veg on grill and add.

We also batch cooked some things before and froze. Is this an option? Most things are ok frozen for at least 6 months, so you could make and freeze in disposable family size trays ( Robert dyas ). 6 fish pies, 6 lasagnes, 6 cottage pies, 6 sauces would cover 3 meals a week for 6 weeks plus a sauce a week to add to something else for example. If you have larger freezer you could do more

[Kveta]

we managed for 2 months with a remoska and a microwave - it is not something I'm keen to do again, but it was fine really. we had a sink, apart from 2 days, and had a free standing IKEA worktop as our prep area.

batch cooking and freezing loads was helpful, as well as getting takeaway once a month!

[Crutchlow35]

oh and a three tier steamer.

[fossil971]

Yes I forgot the steamer. Basically, any plug in gadget you formerly despised, will become indispensible!

[cantthinkofagoodone]

My parents used something like this a LOT for curries, spag bol, chilli etc

www.amazon.co.uk/Stellar-SEA26-Electric-Family-Wok/dp/B0050NI9LE/ref=sr_1_1/280-8236256-2663166?s=kitchen-appliances&ie=UTF8&qid=1385558618&sr=1-1&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21

[hifi]

Ooh, the Argos cooker is good. Even second hand cookers are nearly £100. Thanks so much for the tips.

[zumo]

I have seen this done two ways.
First they bought a caravan for £500 and stuck it on the drive, it was a massive static one 10 years old and in excellent condition and cost £300 to deliver but it was excellent as they had a spare house whilst the work went on, just scrap or sell it at the end. It looks like a lot of money but its so much more stress free for less than £1000, I think they sold it for a small profit at the end too.
The other was a big garden shed attached to the back door and the old kitchen with all appliances moved in to that whilst most of the house was demolished and re built they had a fully functioning kitchen

[exexpat]

I've cooked Christmas dinner for 7 before now using a two-burner gas hob, microwave and a baby-belling-style mini-oven. It's amazing what you can do if you plan a bit.

[ILoveAFullFridge]

What about the washing machine?

[hifi]

I have a washer and a dryer

[offblackeggshell]

We also got a single ring plug in induction hob from Ikea. We've now lent it out to numerous friends doing the same thing, and it's a hand extra when doing a massive cooking session. It cost less that £100, and made being without a proper kitchen totally bearable.