Siting cooker in corner?

DebtSniper

Hi all,

I am re-doing my kitchen. It's a bit small, so I am trying to be a bit creative with the layout. Is it a no-no to place an electric cooker and hob in a corner? The walls will be tiled, but I am wondering if this would be dangerous. I say this simply because I don't think I've ever seen a cooker sited in a corner.

Can anyone offer any sound advice?

Thanks.

elona

You won't have room for saucepans with handles on the hob.

Doozergirl

Ikea do a corner cabinets and custom corners especially for cookers. I think it looks really good as the cooker sits at a 45 degree angle and I think you can site your handles off the hob still bt ecause it's at an angle.

I think even a regular oven housing would work at a 45 degree angle, you'll just need you fitter to be clever with the worktop fitting.

If you were just to bung it against a wall, it wouldn't be very comfortable to cook. We had to do it once because our first kitchen was impossibly tiny and we had to make do.

ukwoody

If you resort to putting in a standard unit at 45 degrees, you will need to either buy a breakfast bar to cut down for the worktop because of the increased depth, or use a desig on worktop which can be biscuit jointed toghter along it's edge to increase the width. Otherwsie no problems. But I think you may indeed have probelms with handles and things. (would there be issues over a Gas hob I wonder??? due to air circulation and the fact the flames could lick the wall???. GorgiGuy about??).

woody

DebtSniper

Thanks for the replies so far.

Let me clarify what I meant.

The cooker/hob are all electric. I was not referring to placing them at an angle. Rather, the left-hand side would be flush against the wall, although I would actually anticipate a gap of about 2 inches or so between cooker/hob and wall. This gap would be covered at hob level by the worktop.

I have been trying out some measurements, and there would be room for most of my pans and their handles. The only real problem is the top-left hob ring, which could not accommodate my wok. However, the wok would simply have to be used on a ring on the right-hand side of the hob or the front left-side. (Hope that makes sense. )

But is any of this dangerous?

mary43

Our cooker has been in a corner for some years. There's a gap between it and the wall and we've never had problems with any pan handles.The wok really is the only awkward item and we use that on the front right hand rings.

southernscouser

Forgive me if I've got the wrong end of the stick, but by placing an oven in the corner, you will then have a wasted space for the oven door to open into no? :undecided

DebtSniper

southernscouser wrote: »

Forgive me if I've got the wrong end of the stick, but by placing an oven in the corner, you will then have a wasted space for the oven door to open into no? :undecided

Hi Scouser,
Sorry, I don't follow. What do you mean by wasted space?

Cheers.

PasturesNew

For 25 years my mum had her cooker in a corner, sandwiched between the main back door and the hallway door, with the hallway door being next to the living room door. So anybody going in/out of the house, living room or hallway would have to go past.

The only time there was ever an accident was when I was frying chips and deliberately pushed by my younger sister and the whole hot chip pan fell on my hand as when I was pushed, it made me push down on the handle. No fire was started though.

It depends on the corner really - and how chaotic your household/kitchen areas tend to be.

DebtSniper

PasturesNew wrote: »

It depends on the corner really - and how chaotic your household/kitchen areas tend to be.

Not chaotic.

I don't anticpate any accidental spillages or anything like that.

I am thinking along the lines of potential hazards caused by the heat source (the hob rings) being so close to the walls. However, the left hand hob rings would only be as close to the left-hand wall as the back hob rings would be to the back wall. Bearing in mind that it is fairly normal for a cooker hob to be close to the back wall, I can't see what problems would be caused by the positioning the cooker/hob in the corner. There would be no extra hazard, as I see it.

I just worry that maybe I am missing something (possibly something obvious).

southernscouser

DebtSniper wrote: »

Hi Scouser,
Sorry, I don't follow. What do you mean by wasted space?

Cheers.

Sorry about my architectural skills! :rotfl:

Is this how you mean it will look? If so then the space where the oven door opens is a waste as opposed to putting in the middle of the worktops! :think: