An outdoor kitchen is sure to become your new favorite gathering place in your Lexington and Brookline, MA Areas backyard. Whether your passion is gourmet pizza or grilling steaks to order, having a custom outdoor kitchen with all the bells and whistles can let you cook to your heart’s content. See why adding an outdoor kitchen to your backyard area is a win-win!
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Barbecue Essentials
For your grill station, you will want plenty of counter space to hold the seasonings and sauces that make your meats taste so good. Many homeowners like to have two gas grills, one for meat and one for vegetables and fruits. Having two separate grills can keep the residue of the meat off the other foods you want to grill.
Another essential of a grill station can be a warming oven that holds the foods you have cooked at a constant temperature until you serve them. This oven can be directly below the grills for easy access.
You might want to add a smoker, too, for cooking meats slowly throughout the day until they are ready when your guests have arrived. With the grills and smoker sitting in a built-in stone station, you have everything you need for the main course.
Outdoor Kitchen Essentials
An outdoor kitchen can boast a refrigerator to keep foods and drinks cold, a deep sink for easy clean-up, and a dishwasher or two because no one wants to wash dishes when you have guests over. With ample counter space and cabinets to hold everything you need to cook a complete meal outside, you won’t have to go indoors multiple times.
Pizza Ovens
A pizza oven comes in handy when your friends want to make pizza for dinner. With the dough, sauces, and toppings, you can spread out what they need and each person can make a pizza to their taste. Store a large salad in the fridge and grab some wine, and your pizza dinner can be perfect.
Coffee Bar
It seems like everyone is coffee-obsessed these days so having a coffee bar with a cappuccino machine, fresh espresso, and other coffee drinks can be a wonderful way to encourage your guests to stay and hang out longer. When you have syrups, creamers, and other coffee supplies, there won’t be anyone who doesn’t have a coffee option except the people who don’t like coffee.
A Pergola for Shade
Something you might need on a warm day is some shade while you cook and that is what a pergola can bring to the outdoor kitchen design. Crafted of wood posts and decorative wood slats or beams overhead, you can choose the amount of sunlight coming through based on the distance of the beams above. Pergola lets some sun through but blocks the strongest rays to give you some shade that can help cool down the space. You can add lighting and ceiling fans to the pergola to make it more functional.
Landscape Lighting
Low-voltage LED landscape lighting won’t run up your electricity bill but it will illuminate every part of the outdoor kitchen so you can cook there at any time of night. This automatic lighting can let you make pizzas, grill burgers, or just relax for as long as you wish.
