Where do you keep kitchen machines?

[PigletJohn]

Having got more tall cabinets for the kitchen, and removed the microwave shelf, there is not much worktop space.

If you have a kettle, toaster, huge espresso, chef, microwave, steamer, slow cooker, breadmaker, where do you put them all?

Most of them get hot so can't safely be used inside a cabinet, and are a bit big and heavy to be lifting in and out frequently.

We have the microwave on wall brackets as we have a small kitchen. Kettle, toaster and coffee machine in a corner so there is still usable worktop in front and to the side. Larger stuff, like slow cooker, food processor and Kenwood Chef go in our cellar in a cupboard under the stairs. I just get them out as needed. My sister has a much larger kitchen but stores her bread maker and stuff in the adjacent utility room when it's not in use.

Don't really have very much to say but I didn't like to leave your post with only one answer, PigletJohn, when you've given so much useful advice on Property/DIY!

Our microwave is built into a tall cabinet above the waist-level oven, toaster and kettle are on the kitchen table opposite the main work surface, no coffee machine or steamer, Magimix on the main surface between sink and cooker as it's too heavy to keep putting away and getting out, breadmaker in the conservatory but I only use it about once a week, slow cooker is in the cellar because so far I haven't liked anything I made in it...

Hope you find some good solutions!

I have the microwave and the kettle out permanently. (I also have the toaster out because I have space for it but that could be somewhere else at a pinch.) Everything else - all the sorts of things on your list - is put away in one place or another depending on how often I use them although I aim to keep one socket-serviced place on the kitchen surfaces clear in case I need to put something there.

Have you done a quick analysis of how often you actually use them ? I've always found it useful to try something out on (reasonably informed) spec and live with it for a week or two to see how things work out in practice. Then, if you find that a particular feature is really getting on your wick, you can adjust on a sound basis.

Our kitchen has 7' of worksurface, upon which we have a large toaster, a microwave, the knife block and a kettle.

Slow cooker lives in the conservatory (I figure it doubles up as a heater when on!), Kenwood chef, food processor live in the loft. The steamer is on top of the fridge. Breadmaker is under the stairs and when on, gets put in the conservatory (another heater!).

We do have a Bamix hand blender with a food-processor-like attachment, which stops me having to get the big one out of the loft much.

I would adore a decent-sized kitchen but it's one of those things that require a lottery win.

My toaster and kettle are towards the corner of the short run of worktop from the internal door to the external wall. I don't have a coffee machine, but there is space (and spare sockets!) for it if we do get one in future.

The microwave is on an open shelf at worktop height in my floor to ceiling units. It is a unit designed for a built in microwave, even though ours is a normal one.

I don't have a kenwood chef yet, but I will be putting it in the corner next to my floor to ceiling oven unit. The base cupboard is approx 80cm x 80cm corner cupboard, so the corner has a decent amount of worktop space, is accessible, but also out of the way of my day to day cooking. I could also put a magimix there if I wanted too, though I'd have to drag the processor out of the corner a little for using it.

My bread maker is in the utility. I make all my bread in there, so I keep all my flour and utensils etc out there with it.

My slow cooker is in my cupboard as I never use it.

My steamer is a three tier steamer pan, so that lives with my pans in the pan drawers.

When I re-did my kitchen, I spent a lot of time thinking about how I use the space and where everything would go. So even though it isn't huge (approx 3m x 3m), it is very functional.

I only have the kettle out the whole time but I only have 1 and a 1/2 worktop space. The food processor, toaster, slow cooker and sandwich maker are kept in cupboard until I want to use them. No microwave as we have no where to put one plus I don't think I would use it.

I think that the only solution is to build some custom shelves or get a [[www.diy-kitchens.com/kitchen-units/worktop-dresser/500mm-worktop-mounted-tambour-dresser-unit---1210-high/wp19800/
Worktop mounted tambour unit ]] like the one in this picture to hold some small appliances.