Thai kitchens

[stroller]

Are you a mind-reader?

I just started a thread in the cap's kitchen!

[Marmite the Dog]

^I saw that, but you're bloody slow! Hurry up, I'm starvin'!!

[dirtydog]

Turns out you need a superduper bloody rice cooker

[lom]

^Still an improvement since you normally need a super duper owen or a baking machine, both of them much more expensive than his compurice.

[blackgang]

Well you can only do so much when you have a Thai wife doing the plans and telling the builders what she wants behind your back.
I wanted some built ins when we did our kitchen, the wife is a working school teacher and has worked since she was very young so has had no experience with domestic kitchens,
She wanted the aluminum cabinets from our temp kitchen put into the new one, and now that we had the roof and ceilings changed and talked to the fairly good contractor, she wants the built in cabinets and counter tops, so there goes another 100K baht.
But at least by god, I did get a stove with an oven and I can make do, but they did put the traction finished tiles around the work areas of the kitchen so you don't bust your ass if and when you spill some water on the floors.

[ADare]

Kitchen designed and paid for by my Thai girlfriend.





Bugger, they are both small again.

[stroller]

That's a strange oven with a round hole in the middle!

[Marmite the Dog]

You're copy & pasting the thumbnail link, not the piccie link. Just as well, 'cos the original is too big.


Small


Medium


Too big.

500 to 600 wide is about bestest for most people.

[Dougal]

Kitchen designed and paid for by my Thai girlfriend.

Do you only have the one ring burner? I'm not a cook but even I find two is not enough.

Nice and bright kitchen though and I like the view.

[dirtydog]

Time to bring strollers embarrassing kitchen thread back to life, now this Thai concrete kitchen is at this moment being built, although I have to admit it is a bit more tasteful than strollers color scheme although I am not sure how the top is going to be finished off, this will have 2 sinks next to each other, this I think maybe a problem as the mixer tap will be fitted there and it will need some form of bracing, the sinks will be butted up to each other and I think there will be too much flex, still we shall know next week.

The counter will have a built in gas hob, for some reason he doesn't like strollers built in fire place, maybe he doesn't like sticky rice or something, the doors came from home pro and are plastic, as with all plastic door frames when they are fitted the Thais don't brace them and the weight of the concrete forces the plastic frame inwards so then the doors don't close very easily, if at all in some cases.



For some reason his wife made them fit the water heater above the sink, I got to admit I have no idea why but it is too late now so there it will stay, actually the more I think about it the less I like the idea



I think the whole counter length must be about 12 meters so it's big enough to make the food for a big party.

[stroller]

It looks rather boring so far.

I am available to help out with ideas, for a reasonable fee.

[Thaicoon]

We also replaced this cooker:



with this one:



It's all high-tec in the Stroller household now, with these impressive ceramic grits spreading the heat evenly:



What's your kitchen like, any different from back home?

I have just bought a western kitchen in the Jan sales in the UK, total price just for kitchen was 1.3 million baht, excluding worktops, had this kitchen for 5000 GBP, getting the marbel worktops in Thailand, having it shipped over in a 40 foot box, with all are other household items, the wife is returning home so nothing to pay.

[hillbilly]

I sorta like stroller's kitchen. However, I would have put the gas bottle outside. Don't know if this is really safer or not, just makes me feel better.

[Dougal]

I sorta like stroller's kitchen. However, I would have put the gas bottle outside. Don't know if this is really safer or not, just makes me feel better.

Gas leaks are most likely to occur when the hose has become damaged or perished, usually through chafing. If you put the bottle outside you will have to pass the hose through the wall somehow. What you SHOULD do is to use metal pipe for the through wall fitting but I guess that most people just shove the rubber hose through a bit of conduit, if that. I prefer having the hose where I can keep an eye on it. But I do turn the gas bottle off when I am not using it. I figure you are also more likely to neglect to do that if you have to go outside for it.

[dickie]

I thought the main idea of moving to Thailand was for a better life than our home countries?

These kitchens look like something out of the dark ages, I though only the poor Thai's up country only had things like this?

I couldn't live like that, I'm 100% sure about that, I know I'm 6000 miles away from home in the UK, but I still like a few home comforts, one being a clean decent western style kitchen

[hillbilly]

These kitchens look like something out of the dark ages, I though only the poor Thai's up country only had things like this?

Now this is an upcountry kitchen.


Or here is more a modern kitchen.

[Dougal]

but I still like a few home comforts, one being a clean decent western style kitchen

YOu can certainly get very nice kitchens here - if you are willing to pay for one. But food here is pretty cheap so unless you like to play at chefs a lot there is often no point in spending a lot of money that could go towards dining out.

I consider my kitchen here to be as good as the one that I have in the UK. It is a lot bigger and just as clean. I don't have an oven but then I don't cook joints of meat here, I could do with an extra ring on the gas burner but not enough to go out and make me buy a bigger cooker just yet.

Cost? Probably 10k Baht excluding the fridge and micro ( I rarely use the micro either )

[dickie]

Looks better, but still a bit basic in my eyes, I like a western kitchen although they mount up in price I agree, like to have a nice good home cooked meal, my wife made homemade lasagne yesterday & it was real good, I cooked the turkey for Xmas so personally I like an oven, one thing I agree with you though is food is cheap so some people find it easier to eat outside

[stroller]

My Thai kitchen is a lot 'better' than anything I had while I lived in the UK, except for the missing oven.

I'll get some pics of 'traditional' Northern Thai kitchens (which are of a similar standard to the South-London squat I lived in), not comparable to the tiled and well-lit surfaces in this thread.

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's my kitchen:



No oven. No hobs. No sink. No tap. No worries.

[klongmaster]

stroll: why didn't you enter this is the best asian pic contest...it's a winner for sure...

[dickie]

My Thai kitchen is a lot 'better' than anything I had while I lived in the UK, except for the missing oven.

I'll get some pics of 'traditional' Northern Thai kitchens (which are of a similar standard to the South-London squat I lived in), not comparable to the tiled and well-lit surfaces in this thread.

I'm sure your kitchen is 1000 times better than a kitchen in a south London squat.
I don't no much about squats??
I had a nice 3 bedroomed terraced house in Teddington, when I lived in the UK 13 years ago

[dirtydog]

Well things seem to be going wrong with this counter, it slopes down about an inch from the back left to the front right

[stroller]

Well things seem to be going wrong with this counter, it slopes down about an inch from the back left to the front right

Drill a hole in the lower right front, plenty of space for a bucket in the cupboard underneath.

[friscofrankie]

Here's a shot of my tight, little kitchen. We just got the sink in last week and the stove/oven last night, needs a bit longer hose but it reaches for now. The kitchen is almost ideal for one cook; no wasted steps, everything is at hand, it is just a tad too small though for a normal sized dude; more like the galley on a largish boat.

The counter-top at the end of the kitchen is about 1 - 2mm too short to get the gas bottle under, mighta fit if I had a bigger hammer or a grinder, though