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Friday, August 17, 2018

Outdoor Kitchen

We live, for the moment, in a rather poorly insulated building and it gets hot in the summer. Usually I can only keep it about 10 degrees below the outside temp, which isn't much when it's 90F-100F. Then you throw in cooking, ugh! I usually do lots of cooking on the BBQ in the summer but that can be somewhat limiting and it really frustrated oldest child who looooves to bake.

So, a couple weeks ago my wonderful husband called and said he had the opportunity to get an old bus that was used as a mobile kitchen for a local farmer for harvest time. Did I want it? Um, yeah! So we went over that weekend, got it running and drove it home.

Now I had something else in mind when they called it a 'mobile kitchen', they had just pulled some seats out to make some room for a table. It was more a delivery vehicle. Not a problem! I happened to have a counter top I'd pulled out of our old singlewide that I used for chicken butchering as well a gas stove that had just been given to me. I also still had our old single laundry sink that was our main sink before I got the one I currently have.

We got it home and pulled the rest of the seats out (anybody want a school bus seat?) and I gave it a good scrubbing. Then I arranged the counter, a small table, the sink and the stove the way I wanted them. We still have to get the sink plumbed in, but the stove is up and running and that is the main thing. I like it!

Here's a view from the front of the bus. As you can see, I still have about half a bus of space left for storage.

View from the back of the bus.

I do want to get a few things like hot pads and maybe a few utensils out there but it's great as is. Once the water is running it'll be awesome! I can cook out there, do my distilling even when it's windy and use it for butchering as well. Yay!

2 comments:

  1. I just love creative solutions. This is great.

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    1. Thanks! While a bus is kinda ugly, being a vehicle means no property tax. I am going to paint it, though. Something not so......yellow. :)

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