Auxilliary kitchen addition
 

Had it in mind to add a room on the back of my garage to house a 'work' kitchen.....someplace we can cut meat, do summer canning using a woodstove if needed and so on. Found an old, deep, 2 compartment stainless steel sink that a little mom/pop restaurant was having to replace with a 3 compartment ( health dept rules ), and I'm gonna put that in the aux kitchen so we can wash things like the big American canner.

Started by making a big hole in the back wall of the garage so I could get my tractor out there...the back drops off about 25' into a small creek in the back, and there is no other way to get a machine around to that side. This let me back the tractor out on the edge of the bank, and dig a footer, then lay some block up to just below floor level. Went ahead and started the flue for the wood cook stove. The 8' opening in the garage wall, I'll close down to a door opening later on. I didn't have a floor drain in the garage, so while I was at it I cut the floor in the garage, and tied a drain into a floor drain in the new addition.

The main working room will be about 12x15, with an additional 7x12' area on the far end that will be a small walk-in cooler, and a storage room for empty cases of canning jars.

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Andy, I sure appreciate your construction know how!

Great pics... can't wait to see the whole process....

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Awesome, and just around the corner from the root cellar too.

Will you have a full slaughterhouse set up? Meat hooks? Saw? Or just more of a "summer" or "primitive" kitchen?

I thought yall were gonna put the woodstove in the current kitchen?

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Looks great!

Silver Jeep: I think the wood cookstove is going in that room to avoid heating up the house in case you need to use the wood burner during the summer.

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Smart set up.
Summer Kitchens rock... even if detached old school style.
This one looks like its gonna be plush.

I'd add a nice little firewall between the kitchen and the garage... and wouldn't a nice hand pump at the sink be a classic touch.

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Makes sense. I guess the other plan was before the whole new room idea. Good to have options.

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:cry1::cry1::cry1::cry1::cry1:
You know what.
I am in awe once again.
I would do anything to have all that.
Please don't post any greenhouse pics, I can't take any more, please.

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Will have hooks ( or eyebolts/something ) in the ceiling of the cooler for hanging meat, but not a true slaughterhouse setup with I beam/trolley deal. I'll have to quarter beef/hog to hang, as I'll only have 8' ceiling in it, but that's fine....this is only for personal use, and the cooler won't even get used that much, it just allows us to process anytime rather than being weather dependent. Probably won't get a meat bandsaw either....the cheap ones I've seen, which are about as much as I could justify for the amount of use it will get, are REALLY Chinese cheap/shoddy looking, and I'm not willing to shell out the couple grand for a decent light commercial saw....so unless I run into one used, no power sawing...just have to use the old hand saw.

I really wanted to get the wood cook stove in the 'regular' kitchen, but I simply can't work out a plan where it will fit.....putting one in a kitchen, you about need to design the kitchen from the get-go around a stove/flue/etc....so this is the second best plan.....plus, as AP says, it keeps the heat out there should using it in the summer become a necessity.

I plan to vault the ceilings in the main room to about 9-10' at the peak, and put a ceiling fan in there.....that should help with summer heat as well.

Plan on extending the propane line on to this room as well, and put in a two burner "base camp stove" I have that I use for canning in the garage sometime.....I'll simply make a permanent base cabinet for it, and leave it set there all the time....it's cheap deal, sorta like two of the turkey cooker burners built together ( Northern Tool ), but works great for applying a lot of heat to a canner.

Godot: Pass on that pump... :biggrin: The sink I found came with one of those long, curved, hanging spray arms....that's what's going in it.

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Andy,

Check out restauarnt auctions in your area, or in a bigger city near you. You can usualy find used equipment a lot cheaper at these place when markets/butchers, etc go out of business. You're right though, those commercial saws (really any equipment) is going to be super cheap and unless you are processing A LOT of meat, they are more of a luxury.

If you're only putting a few hours every so often on them, the cheaper chinese ones may work for you though. Dont discount them entirley. Still, price tags being what htey are, hand saw might just have to be the way it is ;)

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Tn_Andy,

Here's the one we've used for canning (and other purposes) for 12/15 years. We LOVE our Camp Chef Professional...

http://www.campchef.com/store/item/1...ner_stove.html

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Yeah....this is the knock off version I have....about half the FRNs..(129 currently at Northern Tool )..in fact, I was thinking I paid well under 100 bucks several years back. Looks like the same size burner surface and same 30,000 BTU burners.

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You know Andy, if and when SHTF and there occurs a true EOTWAWKI comparable to the fall of Rome, you're setting yourself up to become a warlord.

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Brother....You don't know the half of it.....or even a 1/20th..... :biggrin:

Nah, kidding aside.....my gut says a long, slow slide is coming, with brief periods of "OH CRAP !!".....and everything I've done for the last 10-15 years is to provide the slight chance ( and I suffer no illusions...I think that all the odds are ) that me and mine will not suffer quite as bad as a whole lot of other folks.

And if 20 years from now, things are about as they are now, or better, then feel free to tell me I was wrong....but I've got a really handy plan B for that direction as well.

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I envy your ability to build from scratch damn near anything you want. I think whichever way this thing goes you will be fine. :23_28_100s:

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ATTN: MRS TNAndy

Can Mr. TNAndy come to my house to play????

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I can answer that one for her.....she would tell you I'm 30 years into a 50 year project.....so ask again about 2030.

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I'll trust in your judgement :biggrin:


Got a buddy I'm assisting on the design and building of a totally off grid "Fort Apache" built at the crest of a local mountain........we'll be putting the last story on it later this month, and I'll do a photo spread and description of features when we get the roof on...ya'll will love it......he does already. He was telling me the other day how glad he was I goaded him into building it, and I replied " I'm just glad there are people with checkbooks deep enough to make my visions come true"....ahahahahaaaaa