Summer days are upon us and long summer evenings naturally include a barbecue. From small to large, expensive to budget, barbecues, outdoor kitchens and other cooking appliances are available for every garden. And if you need a new barbecue, read on and find out which outdoor kitchen you can make with the barbecues and cooking units from our range.
The best barbecue for your garden
The decoration of your garden is fine but you are still missing a cool outdoor kitchen with your summer favourites. With these tips, you can build your complete outdoor kitchen and enjoy a nice place to cook outside, relax with friends and make great dishes for years to come.
To start, it's a good idea to familiarise yourself with the different barbecues and cooking units available. You can take a simple approach and put a barbecue next to the garden table. You can now prepare different ingredients for a tasty snack. If you are more into elaborate cooking and are ready to build a real outdoor kitchen, check out the following recommendations and complete your garden with a cool kitchen:
- Quoco Piatto: this outdoor kitchen consists of a fire bowl with plancha and a spacious workbench
- BonFeu BonBiza: this cooking unit consists of a base, a firebowl and a plancha. Besides its function as a barbecue, the BonBiza is cosy to have on as a source of heat and atmosphere.
- OFYR Island 85: this outdoor kitchen consists of a fire bowl with plancha and spacious workbench with a good cutting board. The Island has ample (wood) storage.
- The Bastard: these kamado barbecues often come standard with side shelves. Here you can therefore easily prepare sauces or prepare the plates.
Different cooking techniques per barbecue
In order to determine which outdoor kitchen or barbecue suits your needs, it is good to know which dishes and cooking techniques you can try with which barbecue. If you choose a plancha, then the plancha baking technique is obvious and you can make great cuts of meat or fish. If you go for a fire pit with grill, then making burgers, grilled vegetables as well as heating a soup is possible.
Building your outdoor kitchen
If you are a bit handy, building your own kitchen is of course the most fun. This way, you decide entirely how big, where and from which materials the outdoor kitchen will be. Practical materials for an outdoor kitchen are Corten steel or hardwood. These two materials are made to stand outside for a long time and can therefore last for years.
Besides the units recommended in this blog, it is of course fun to be creative and put together your own kitchen. For example, you can make your own workbench and set up a fire bowl with grill and plancha here. For example, combine a MOODZ fire bowl with a plancha and place them on a sturdy workbench. This way, you create a complete cooking unit but with your favourite products.
Outdoor cooking with the best accessories for your barbecue
The outdoor kitchen is ready and the cooking can begin. Cooking is even more fun with good accessories such as cast-iron pans, fine barbecue tongs or a leather apron. These accessories make outdoor cooking even more fun and often a whole lot easier. Besides these accessories, you can also make your outdoor kitchen variable by using different griddles, grills or a smoking board. Use the plancha griddle one time and then make delicious vegetable skewers with a skewer set.
Inspiration for tasty summer dishes
Cooking outdoors is the most fun in warm weather, which is why we give you some tips for dishes to try out this summer:
- Mini pizzas: make one or more mini pizzas with a pizza oven from the barbecue or a sturdy pizza oven like the La Hacienda Lorenzo
- Stuffed langoustines from the grill: make a tasty filling with the langoustine meat and cook them on the grill
- Fresh wraps (with chicken): grill a nice piece of meat or keep it vegetarian and add beans and corn, for example. With a fresh coleslaw, make the wraps perfect as a summer meal
- Summer burgers: burgers are very popular from the grill. Make a fresh sauce of crème fraise and onions to give the burger a light twist
Have you created a cool outdoor kitchen? Or would you like to shine with your summer dish? Snap a photo and share it on our socials.
