What's the double kitchen all about?

[DoubleKitchenMan]

Name changed because this is clearly identifiable to my friend who I'm puzzling over this with but WTH is going on with the second kitchen???

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/133529630

I know some cultures where spices are heavily used have spice kitchens but they don't kit them out like a whole second kitchen! Do they?

And the description says

The current owners have recently converted the garage to provide a second kitchen which the agents consider could easily be converted for a variety of uses if required. But why did they convert it to a second kitchen? And then move!

It's immaculate, the whole house but also the front kitchen, no tiled splash back, no evidence of tomato based cookery.

I don't think it is a baking kitchen - if it was, I think there would be more than one oven.

Intrigued!

Is there also a microwave in the utility room?

Quite normal in (South) Asian households

Everybody (except me) has a fully fitted second kitchen in the garage here (I'm in australia) I live in a predominantly Greek and Macedonian area, and all of them have full fit outs, which are used for daily cooking in the garage.

Why?

In Asia very common to have an "outdoor" or second kitchen used mostly for frying/smelly cooking and kitted out as a full kitchen. Indoor kitchen used for light meals/snacks.

i have a dream of a butlers pantry ( discreetly hidden behind doors) and an open plan entertaining kitchen.

op I am with you on this - a fully seperate kitchen on the other half of the house is ridiculous and poorly situated unless seperate households/ flat share scenario.

makes an eye sore of a lovely traditional family home

I've watched a lot of American estate agency things recently where it's common for the obnoxiously rich to have a second kitchen. One I saw had two double ovens in the 'main' kitchen and then another two in the second kitchen .

I think this one is probably not that though. Maybe they were intending on converting it into a granny annexe and had to alter their plans?

Smelly kitchen

My first thought was butler’s kitchen, but those are generally adjacent to the original kitchen. Not really for a butler either, just a place to hide the real work so your kitchen looks pretty for entertaining.

I’m wondering if it is allergies, but that is because we are looking at creating a second small kitchen because of allergies.

I think granny/grandpa annex..within the hone the front sitting room is a different style to the big open plan space. Give the older generation the ensuite room upstairs a s you have multi generational living

I have two kitchens. For none of the reasons listed above and most definitely not because we are rich.

I refer to them as the kitchen and the back kitchen. I suppose in the old days the back kitchen would have been called a scullery or something.

@AgathaMystery - it's just the norm, that you have a dining table and a kitchen, and everyone congregates there. It's like an informal kitchen I guess, my neighbours use their one daily, I can always smell them cooking in it, likewise the neighbour across the street, every day there is cooking smells from the garage kitchen. My friends parents up the street- same. Just seems to be the norm, but I've never asked why, just been jealous that their outside kitchens are better stocked than my inside one 😂

My husband refers to all kitchens as 'the back kitchen' which I think is just a Scousism

It could be one multigenerational family all under one roof, together but separate?

The way the house is laid out, it would be quite easy for a family with children and 1 or 2 grandparents to all be living in there.

I’m going to have three kitchens in my next house!
One normal kitchen.
The utility will be a second little kitchen where I can bake for my café without the risk of any dog or cat hair getting near anything.
A third (currently office) room will become a little kitchenette for my elderly mother, one section of the house will be an apartment for her.

I used to stay at a B&B that had converted the garage into a second kitchen. Initially for her wedding cake business and then used for B&B guests.

You can see from the pics that the furniture in the open plan kitchen/lounge is more modern than in the sitting room opposite the converted kitchen.

My take would be that it was bought to convert the garage to a kitchen for elderly parents and they’ve now moved into care or passed away, and now it’s time to sell.

Could be a family with multi generations living in the same house that like to cook separately?

House with similar layout sold near us recently, garage was a fully equipped self sufficient kitchen that had cost £10's K to set up.
Was speaking to the neighbour (when out dog walking which always a good excuse for a natter) and they said it was for the previous owners cake making business.
Apparently she was fantastic and the business had really taken off but then prices started to rise and it was getting more difficult to cover costs so they had to sell-up.

Nanny's accommodation; teens den; MIL

I’ve reported you. What a nasty and unnecessary comment.

The house is lovely. Second kitchen aside, though, I noticed a dishwasher in the utility room. I didn’t go back to check if that was the only one as if so, what a faff to carry stuff from kitchen to utility!! If it’s a second dishwasher, then I’m very jealous!

Oops, I think it’s an under counter fridge! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Could be for messy smelly cooking a the other kitchen is open plan. Greeks often have a smart show kitchen up stairs in the sitting room for making snacks and drinks but downstairs the real kitchen is where the cooking really happens.