What do you do for tea during heatwaves ?

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I really don’t want to put the range cooker on during a heatwave, the thought of it fills me with dread ! Got me thinking, what dinners do you do when it’s so hot? I need ideas other than just salad.

Pizza oven pizzas
Lots of chicken wraps, lamb pittas, fajitas with the meat cooked in the air fryer.
Burritos, tacos with the mix made on the hob.

Sushi

Tuna pasta bake
Fish and chips
Steak salad with cashew nuts
Bread sticks and a variety of fruit and cheese platters

All nice tv dinners for the world cup games

We do “picnic” dinners for the kids. Sandwiches, fruit platters, wraps, cold pasta salad, things like fattoush and tabbouleh are really quick and easy to make

Various pasta dishes or anything I can pop in airfryer.

BBQ food, salmon, chicken, etc with cous cous etc and like another poster pizza over pizzas

Normal meals! Friday we had roast chicken with bread and salads, yesterday we had a BBQ, today we're having Thai curry with the left over chicken, tomorrow is gammon joint with bread and salad, Tuesday macaroni cheese with the left over ham from the joint

Chicken, pork, salmon cooked in the air fryer, lots of salad with new potatoes or couscous.

Whatever I feel like on the day, I don’t really change how I cook or eat during warmer weather.
I’ve never really felt like I couldn’t put the oven on due to the weather.

Your oven must be really badly insulated and your kitchen really poorly ventilated if turning on an oven changes the temperature?

We tend to BBQ quite a lot so we can just sit in the garden and chat while foods cooking. Usually marinaded meat with salad. Otherwise normal food, stuff from the freezer. Or perhaps paella, calamari (frozen and reheated in air fryer) and garlic prawns and we can pretend we're in Spain on holiday.

Bbq meat - make extra then you have cold meat you can use in wraps/sandwiches etc.

Various slaws - could do a classic or an Asian satay slaw for a twist

Mary Berry's red rice salad is good: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/fiery_red_rice_salad_91889

Or a Vietnamese rice noodle salad. The noodles cook in boiled water from the kettle, so this could be entirely cold depending on what you top it with, though I would tend to cook meat - steak or chicken or prawns or mince pork or chicken or turkey cooked with lemongrass/chilli/ginger/fish sauce

our dinner plan for this week:

• Greek marinated chicken and greek salad with bread
• Sausage and burgers with potato salad
• Pork chops with salad
• Salmon, rice, cucumber and edamame

Well we don’t have a range cooker, and our oven doesn’t really leak heat so that isn’t an issue for us, so we just cook as usual.

We have bought ready meals.

Also anything we can put in the airfryer.

Sandwiches

I refuse to boil or fry or use the oven in my kitchen when it is already like a sauna.

We have a rangemaster, but it doesn’t make the kitchen hot if it’s on. Yours might need a service.

We just crack on as normal.

Fishcakes with salad is a fave here … bung them in the air fryer …

Also have a rangemaster and it doesn't make the kitchen hot! It definitely shouldn't. Check your door alignment/hinges and that the vents aren't blocked.

Our house is over 100 years old. The oven is brand new induction so I’m confident it isn’t that. It’s the tiny kitchen that needs some serious upgrading

new potatoes, coleslaw, salad and pre cooked chicken breasts
chicken fajitas done in the air fryer
pork steaks in Chinese/Mediterranean sauce done in the air fryer, coleslaw, new potatoes, salad garnish
chicken Caesar salad with pre cooked chicken breast
hot dogs and onions done in the air fryer
pasta and sauce
sweet and sour chicken and egg fried rice cheats way- jar sweet and sour sauce, micro egg fried rice and ready cooked chicken breast
Substitute sweet and sour sauce with black bean, lemon, oyster, curry

Our house is over 100 years old.

Aren’t most?

We eat what we’d normally eat but just later in the evening. Last night it was prawn curry, aloo gobi, chapati and rice but at 10pm.
Tonight we’re having Korean style chicken and pork, kimchi rice, smashed cucumber salad and stuff, the meat will be cooked on the bbq and we’ll aim to sit down and eat at 9pm.

My kitchen gets so much sun and absolutely gets boiling hot in a heat wave. I certainly wouldn't do any oven dishes. We have an air frier or just cook easy things, Gazpacho, range of salads, wraps.

Spaghetti vongole and ceviche are our go tos when it's boiling or cold meats and salad.

Tacos, wraps, greek salad, pasta salad, chicken skewers, quiche and salad...
It's really hard to think about stuff to eat in that heat! For us, it's salad every time(whoch we all love, so it's fine) with some quick to cook meat (mince beef, chicken). Add some greek bread, or baguette and that's a meal.
Saying that, I've no idea what we're going to eat this week as I've already made all of the above last week!
Good luck!

I do normal meals too.
We were away yesterday so no cooking, but today will be normal dinner, a turkey and potato thing with cauliflower and broccoli and a peach cobbler.
It helps than my vent over the cooker pulls air to the outside of the house, not just circulate it in the kitchen.
Later this week will be leftovers, pasta dinners, and maybe a Chicken or tuna salad.