When the temperatures rise throughout a hot summer day, the last thing you probably want to do is turn on the oven and start cooking. If going out to dinner every night isn't an option, here are 5 tips to make sure your kitchen doesn't feel as warm as your preheating oven.
- Experiment with other cooking appliances – Microwave ovens can now brown and crisp dishes and crock pots cook at lower temperatures for longer periods of time. In fact, once a crock pot has been loading with the meal that will cook over the next several hours, it can be situated anywhere, including the patio if you have an outlet nearby.
- Add a ceiling fan – Ceiling fans tend to be under-utilized in kitchens but they can provide significant cooling as well as the dispersal of heat from the oven.
- Get outside – One of the pleasures of summer is cooking outdoors and the new barbecues and grills make it easy. In fact, outdoor cooking gear has so many optional features that you can prepare an entire meal on a barbecue/grill.
- Create sandwich and salad bars – These are fun meals that don’t require any heating.
- Increase your venting capacity – One of the things that gets overlooked in terms of cooling a kitchen area is the venting system over the oven/cooktop. Improving your venting capacity can remove more smoke, steam, and heat from your kitchen area, making it far more comfortable to prepare meals.
Summer evenings can be extremely enjoyable, unless you’re sweating them out in a hot
kitchen. Follow these tips to vary your routine, get outdoors, and stay cool while you’re in the kitchen.
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