Kitchen prep table - help!

[GrammerlyH]

I am having a new kitchen with a prep table in it, rather than an island. It will be used for prepping food rather than sitting at as we have a separate dining table and chairs in the room as well. My question is - do you really need the prep table/island to be the same height as the worktops or can you get away with table height instead (which is approx 10cm lower than worktop height)?I’ve seen a second hand prep table that I really love on eBay but it’s lower than the kitchen worktops. Is this going to be a totally impractical pain forever? Has anyone got this setup and if so how do you find it? I think it’s probably going to be a pain, but I really love this table I’ve seen! Thanks.

I've never heard of a prep table but our kitchen table is a key part of our work surface. I am quite short, my DC are even shorter, and stuff like rolling out pastry and chopping veg are more comfortable, for us, at table height. To be honest though, we do sit down quite often! But certainly not all the time.

If you love the table, buy it. Perhaps you can adapt it if it turns out to being an annoying height, or add a stool or two. Stools are great, you can just kick them under with a normal table. Not sure about a prep table as I'm not sure what it is!

Thank you! A prep table is essentially a table but the same height as a worktop. Kind of like an island but more... tabley. Devol and Plain English use them a lot in their kitchens.

But the thing is, we have a separate dining table in the room as well so this ‘prep table’ is needed more for food prep and cooking than it is for sitting and eating and homework, etc. So I don’t know whether I should, for practical reasons, make it the same height as the worktops - or whether I can get away with having it lower. If that makes sense.

Completely depends on how tall you are...me and my husband are both tall so we’re looking at putting out worktops an inch or two higher to avoid the stoop when cooking.

Buy it and is it’s too low fit castor wheels from ikea which will raise it and lock it in place.

Great idea @elieza!

definitely depends on your height and what you are needing it for , chopping would be a different height to pastry rolling for example. maybe get an adjustable standing desk type prep table ?

My DM has some mobility issues.
She's recently had her kitchen refitted and got the kitchen fitters to make her a "prep table" at a suitable work height for her.
They made it to her size specifications, from a worktop offcut, attached some chunky legs on castors so she can sit at it to prep stuff then wheel stuff over to her hob/sink/oven etc.
A suitable height really, is the appropriate height for the user and how they will use it.

The de Vol ones are 920 mm high.