Tips for setting up an open kitchen

The design of the integration of kitchen and meal or the integration of kitchen and living involves two important components: meal preparation and dining.

Let's start with the meal preparation part. The meal preparation space composed of a modern kitchenware system should have four basic functions: cooking, washing, adjusting food preparation, and storage. To do this, it must be equipped with basic facilities such as cooking ovens, sinks, cooking tables, refrigerator storage cabinets, etc.

In order to ensure the high efficiency of kitchen work, the combination of kitchenware composed of these four functions must be scientific and reasonable, otherwise it is difficult to give full play to the performance of the unit kitchenware and improve the overall comprehensive performance of the series in use. Therefore, kitchen equipment must meet the following requirements:

First, the requirements of kitchenware should first meet the coordination of people, kitchenware, and storage items in terms of scale and location. At present, many countries have formulated various size standards for kitchenware systems in the form of national standards based on their own human body side data.

2. The basic kitchen process from meal preparation to meal can be summarized as: food storage, preparation, washing, preparation and cooking, food preparation, and serving to the table. The combination of kitchenware systems should be consistent with this basic process.

3. The combination of kitchen utensils should be based on the "working triangle principle". Different combinations of kitchenware have different moving lines to complete certain cooking operations. According to expert research, the operating lines between the refrigerator in the storage center and the stove in the cleaning center can be connected into a triangle (commonly known as the working triangle).

In general, the sum of the three sides of the triangle is better than 660 cm. If it is exceeded, the efficiency of the kitchen will be reduced. When the sum of the three sides of the triangle is 450 cm to 660 cm, the work efficiency is the highest.

The kitchen layout based on the working triangle principle has the following basic forms:

That is, one-row arrangement, corridor type arrangement, curved ruler type arrangement, U-shaped arrangement, peninsula-shaped arrangement, and variable arrangement.

The dining part includes dining tables and chairs, as well as cabinets and furniture for storing tableware, tea sets, wine utensils, and tobacco, wine, sugar, tea and other foods. The open kitchen design is not a simple and rigid addition of two kitchen spaces, but an organic combination of kitchen and meal functions composed of modern kitchen equipment systems. Therefore, the combination of the kitchen and dining parts should be skillfully matched with the composition of family members, the layout of the kitchen space, and the spatial form.

The facilities that integrate living room activities into the kitchen and dining space also need to be considered to match the sofas, coffee tables, low cabinets and other furniture needed for living and living.