Temporary free standing oven until we get a new kitchen

jcuurthht

We will be moving in to our new house soon and using the existing kitchen. We plan to build a new kitchen in a different room next year.

Currently there is a standing gas oven+hob. Because we are removing the gas, we are also removing the oven+gas.

Ideally in our new kitchen we would have a seperate built in oven and built in hob. This means if we were to buy a new freestanding electric cooker, we would either have to sell it again when the new kitchen is finished, or use it in the new kitchen. I'm not sure how much this would impact our design choices in our new kitchen.

So we could:

1. Buy a new freestanding electric oven+hob which we will also use in the new kitchen
2. Buy a new freestanding electric oven+hob which we will sell after our new kitchen is installed
3. Don't buy an oven and instead use a worktop 1 or 2 ring hob and a worktop mini oven e.g. Ninja.

Any advice is welcome.

Simonon77

Maybe have a look on marketplace or similar for a cheap second hand freestanding one as a temporary thing, then sell when you redo the kitchen? 

CSI_Yorkshire

4.  Buy a built-in oven and put it on a cheap cabinet carcass / temporary frame.

Depends how bothered you would be by it looking 'temporary' until you do the works.

jcuurthht

CSI_Yorkshire said:

4.  Buy a built-in oven and put it on a cheap cabinet carcass / temporary frame.

Depends how bothered you would be by it looking 'temporary' until you do the works.

I hadn't considered this. We would also need to buy a portable hob, but we could keep the oven for the new kitchen, and even keep the portable hob because they are useful.

Simonon77 said:

Maybe have a look on marketplace or similar for a cheap second hand freestanding one as a temporary thing, then sell when you redo the kitchen? 

Good idea, I'll have a search now.

CSI_Yorkshire

jcuurthht said:

CSI_Yorkshire said:

4.  Buy a built-in oven and put it on a cheap cabinet carcass / temporary frame.

Depends how bothered you would be by it looking 'temporary' until you do the works.

I hadn't considered this. We would also need to buy a portable hob, but we could keep the oven for the new kitchen, and even keep the portable hob because they are useful.

Even a "built-in" hob usually has a flat base and can sit easily on a worktop, just looks a little messy.

jcuurthht

CSI_Yorkshire said:

jcuurthht said:

CSI_Yorkshire said:

4.  Buy a built-in oven and put it on a cheap cabinet carcass / temporary frame.

Depends how bothered you would be by it looking 'temporary' until you do the works.

I hadn't considered this. We would also need to buy a portable hob, but we could keep the oven for the new kitchen, and even keep the portable hob because they are useful.

Even a "built-in" hob usually has a flat base and can sit easily on a worktop, just looks a little messy.

Ok so we could buy a cheap temporary 60x60 cabinet, and then buy a built-in oven & built-in hob that can be used now with the cabinet in the old kitchen, and also installed in the new kitchen.

e.g. https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/metod-maximera-base-cab-for-hob-oven-w-drawer-white-voxtorp-matt-white-s29168975/

I am assuming we can cut a hole in the cabinet to also install the hob.

silvercar

Could you manage with an air fryer rather than a temporary oven?

jcuurthht

silvercar said:

Could you manage with an air fryer rather than a temporary oven?

Sure, it is just me and my wife cooking for ourselves. That's why our initial idea was an air fryer + portable hob.

FreeBear

Have a look at table top induction hobs - You can get small two ring units that don't take up a lot of space. Once you have experienced induction, you may not want to go back to ceramic/halogen/wot-ever.

jcuurthht

FreeBear said:

Have a look at table top induction hobs - You can get small two ring units that don't take up a lot of space. Once you have experienced induction, you may not want to go back to ceramic/halogen/wot-ever.

Yes I will need to do some research about induction. I've used them at a friends house. Can you still use cast iron on them?

I'll run it by my wife, but I think I've decided to buy this cabinet from IKEA and buy the appliances that we will eventually use in the new kitchen. This way we have a nice familar setup in our current kitchen, and we can re-use the appliances in the new kitchen.

e.g. https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/metod-maximera-base-cab-for-hob-oven-w-drawer-white-voxtorp-matt-white-s29168975/

grumbler

jcuurthht said:

Currently there is a standing gas oven+hob. Because we are removing the gas, we are also removing the oven+gas.

If there is an electric supply in this place for both the hob and the oven (or if it can be easily added, e.g. if you have suspended floor with crawling space underneath), then you can remove the existing oven, add a piece of worktop and a shelf between the old units and install temporarily your new appliances. That was what my friend did when his old range cooker died. A new induction hob and a modern fan oven made his wife happy.