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Kitchen, placing a hob on a peninsula?

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Compact · 25/04/2012 16:52

In my house, I'm knocking through to create a L shaped kitchen diner, keeping the kitchen in the 7ft x 9ft space, blocking existing door to kitchen, bricking up external door and replacing with a window, placing a peninsula where the wall is being taken out.
So it will be a U shaped kitchen.
Hopefully this may help with the description. Very rough plan

I've been looking online and have only seen sinks places on islands or peninsula's, not hobs.
My idea is for the sink to be inline with the new window overlooking garden.
The hob will be Induction so less chance or burning fingers, room on the sides so pan handles won't be snagged. My idea is, with friends in the main part of the room, you will be spending most time at the hob, thus looking out into the room and chatting whilst cooking. I'll have a recirculating hood, styled as a lampshade hanging above it.

So any reason why I shouldn't have the Hob here?

Thanks

OP posts:
annalouiseh · 25/04/2012 16:57

no its fine, we have ours like that (pic on profile)
with induction

works well and would be better than the sink - you should spend more time at the hob than sink(d/washer)

slalomsuki · 25/04/2012 16:59

We have one on ours and its great. We were told it was quite common and as long as the sink was close so you weren't walking around with hot pans to drain after say pasta they were fine.

Butwhatdoyoudoallday · 25/04/2012 17:00

We have our hob on a peninsula and I love it for the chatting whilst cooking element. Go for it!

HappyAsASandboy · 25/04/2012 17:55

We have an induction hob and an electric oven on/in an island.

It works really well, though we don't have an extractor fan as I don't want it hanging down in the middle of the room. The kitchen doesn't seem to get smelly when the cookings going to plan, and when it goes wrong we open the window!

fresh · 25/04/2012 19:11

I'd caution against a recirculating extractor as they don't...er...extract. Any way you can get a proper extractor vented to the outside?

Compact · 26/04/2012 00:00

I was thinking of the recirculating one as

  1. I never really use extractors to their full potential, i.e. run for a few mins before and after to properly get rid of all cooking vapours/smells
  2. It would run the look, being above the peninsula
  3. With some wood stoves it's against regs.
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cowboylover · 29/04/2012 22:00

A good quality recirc will do the trick then but check out the prices 1st if your on a budget as usually more expensive.

Mond · 18/05/2021 07:34

Gas job on kitchen
peninsular ?

We've decided to go for a job on peninsula instead of sink as I don't want loads of water and mess on peninsula
Amd my husband is insisting on gas and not induction as he does the cooking .
My questions are:

Does anyone have a gas job on an island or peninsula ? I'm worried about safety but kids are older , 16, 14 and 9

Also have the issue of extracted fan ruining the view .

Does anyone go without an extracted fan ? Any advice or ideas please ?

YellowFish12 · 18/05/2021 07:38

Love hob on island/peninsular, hate sink.

Who wants to have your social area crowded around a sink??

Hob with enough space around it and you can have a social cooking area.

YellowFish12 · 18/05/2021 07:39

@mond we had a gas hob on peninsular and it was good but tbh I would prefer induction any day over gas.

The extractor didn’t ruin line of sight, and you can get fancy ones, but if I was doing a new kitchen now I would get the downdraft ones.

BarkingUpTheWrongRoseBush · 18/05/2021 07:42

We’re doing this but having-ducted ventilation from a built in vent on the hob. It might be worth it if not too expensive for future buyers...or even having the ducting put in....

Mond · 19/05/2021 10:17

With the Dow draft ones do you loose a lot of cupboard space ? We are really tight for space as it is . I am thinking it will eat into the stool area the other side ?

Also thanks re induction preferred over job! I need to convince husband to have induction. What are the selling points ? His opinion is the induction doesn't cook as well as a flame ??

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