Kitchen design

Get the Look

Demeyere sauté pan, £269, shop-uk.zwilling.com

Extending wooden cutlery tray, £16.99, lakeland.co.uk

ABOVE A teapot made by potter Akiko Hirai, from the New Craftsman Gallery in St Ives, which Beth, Tom’s wife, used to visit as a child Stellar Samurai 8in Yanagiba knife, £26, hartsofstur.com

Hand-thrown tea mugs, £12 each, nomliving.com

Living Large solid wood butcher’s ABOVE Tom likes an ordered kitchen and has built-in block, £14.99, My Kitchen cling film and foil dispensers in his knife drawer, which argos.co.uk means he’s never struggling to find the edges

Do you have enough storage? What about the aesthetics? Beth and are both very keen on I’m very fortunate that my wife is fresh ingredients. We like the idea incredibly creative. She’s a sculptor Tom’s top tips of going to a market and buying and an artist, and has done the • Choose your knives well It’s worth spending Tom Kerridge what you need on that day. We rooms at The Hand & Flowers. money on knives that will last you a lifetime Michelin- Tom Kerridge runs The Hand & What was the idea? So what do you cook on? haven’t got a lot of dry store space for We wanted somewhere that felt – and you only really need three if they’re good. starred Flowers in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, The whole space has been based It’s a big classic French stove from convenience goods. Instead, we have the same as that, somewhere where Buy an 8-10in cook’s knife, a flexible boning knife which last year became the first pub around the stove, as you might expect Athanor with six hobs. Two are a lot of space for fresh food in our big that love and feel has gone into it. and a small paring knife. Look after them, too, by Tom Kerridge to be awarded two Michelin stars. from a chef! I wanted the cooking induction and four are radiant, which fridge. The deep drawer for plates is The space is pretty much Beth’s sharpening little and often. explains Tom, who has appeared on BBC’s area and table to be completely is like your old electric ring under the pretty smart too and means we can vision of that crossover between a • Invest in good pans Water takes half the time to Holly , interactive, so friends could sit there glass but 50 years’ of technology store much more in there. beautiful, quintessential English to boil in good, conductive pans, which means Brooke- and Food & Drink, has worked at having a laugh while I could be doing down the line. The rings heat a glass cottage, with ivy on the front, yet you can turn the power off sooner and save Smith why Adlards in , Odette’s in exactly the same thing – cooking, but pad and then sit at that temperature What about lighting? with a hint of great modern living. energy in the long term. , and as sous chef with Gary still part of the party. – whereas induction heats up the The lights along the table are from a • Consider light Good lighting is important to the stove is Rhodes. He lives in Hertfordshire pan, but there’s no heat on the hob. company called Historic Lighting. Any changes to come? work under, but it can also make for a great at the heart with his wife Beth and their dogs How have you managed it? Beth really put a lot of effort into Our plan is to keep it as it is! environment to relax in. Our bulbs give out a of his home Sponge and Marley. The cooking area is one piece of Is it an organised kitchen? finding the right ones – industrial but The more we use this kitchen, cosy glow when you come in. Photographs stainless steel that continues out to Sometimes it’s hard to work in a also comfortable-looking. At night, the more we look forward to being • ‘Mise en place’ Get your prep work done geoff wilkinson Did you start from scratch? the table. You can sit nine around it domestic kitchen. In a commercial the skylight is amazing and the house able to entertain and have people before you start cooking, so that when you When we bought the house, nothing very comfortably. The table surface one, you know where everything is. looks absolutely fantastic if you stand over. The whole house has had so begin, the veg is already chopped and washed, had been done to it for many years. It is wooden because we wanted But when you come home, it hasn’t outside and look in. There are no much work and love go into it. It’s and you won’t need to worry about your timings. needed a huge amount of work, but something that feels like a classic got to be so regimented to make it streetlights here, so it gets very dark. completely as we wanted it – or • Relax! Don’t over-think your space, just try to felt like a lovely space. The kitchen tabletop, but it could have been work. However, I do think if you put The skylight becomes a mirror and even better. It feels like a beautiful make the kitchen a fun environment that you was quite small, so we knocked down anything we wanted. We deliberated the things in place, like a knife the lit-up kitchen looks incredible. home to be in and somewhere want to spend time in. the walls to give it an open living plan. over brick, steel and leather. drawer, it will all fit together better. That was by complete mistake! that’s very relaxing.

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