Articles
27Sep

Church Kitchen – Happy Parishoners

If you think about it, Churches, like all religious and many community establishments, have kitchens.  From coffee mornings to celebrations to soup kitchens, there are many reasons why a church needs a fully operating kitchen.  We recently refurbished the kitchen at St Catherine's in Birmingham. Let's look at the detail. Here below is the warewashing corner.  A wall hung hand wash basin, an ambient wall cupboard.  A bespoke wall bench with rear corner cut-out and void under for the undercounter dishwasher. ...

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12Apr

Stainless Steel Shining in Easter Week

For those who are not familiar with Catholic churches what you see here below are called "Stations of the Cross".  They represent the journey Jesus took carrying the cross to mount Golgotha after being tried and sentenced to death by crucifixion.  This is the story that forms the core of Easter week and the celebration of Christ's resurrection.  Visual representations of Jesus' life have a long tradition within Christianity and will be found in many churches around the world. These...

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23Mar

SPRING OFFER!!

To celebrate the award-winning Merrychef E1S which is cooking live at the Hotel Restaurant and Catering Show (HRC) this week on stand H3052, we have a very special offer. It will run for 7 days only. Purchase an E1S via our website use the code: Highspeed1 For a £500 discount off the purchase price!! Your new oven will arrive with all the normal things you would expect on Merrychef products from Kitchen Solutions, including free Chef-led onsite training and ongoing remote support...

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23Jan

New Servery for Polesworth School in Tamworth

From Concept to Delivery, here is a project we have thoroughly enjoyed.  We started by observing lunch service to see the old servery in action and to be able to better understand how to maximise the available space. We listened, we measured, we advised, we designed.  We then proposed the following layout and equipment: Layout Legend Once the shool agreed we set to work on realising the design.  We prepared the space, the walls, the floors, the services.  We installed the dishwasher, the...

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30Nov

Bonehead Birmingham

One of Birmingham's finest purveyors of Chicken and Liquor approached us to do their big refit at the end of lockdown. We did their fancy new canopy with an airstream curtain across the front to capture the grease and smells. We also did their fancy new Pitco fry suite to give them chicken goodness perfection every time.           We supplied them with a beautiful reconditioned Winterhalter hood machine at a fraction of the cost of a new one.  We replaced the wash...

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03Nov

“Britain’s finest gastronomic and hotel experience” chooses Kitchen Solutions!

This was our second piece of work for Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, one of the UK’s most prestigious restaurants that has held 2 Michelin stars since it opened 38 years ago.  To date it has trained 34 Michelin starred chefs! As you can imagine, perfection is everything to these guys so when we were asked by Benoit Blin to design 2 x pastry tables for their pastry kitchen it was like a busman’s holiday for us.  We went to visit...

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10Oct

How Bespoke can I make my table?

Yes we can make bespoke kitchen furniture, but "how bespoke" we hear you ask.  "Can I have a void under?  Can I add a drawer?  Can I have a door and additional shelves?" The answer to all of the above is YES! You can have all that and more. Dislcaimer: "We are aware that our photos aren't all great, afterall we focus on making the furniture, not on becoming photographers!  Also we don't have a huge variety of examples sitting in...

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09Sep

Primary school gets a kitchen for the first time

The Church of England Diocese asked us to do a feasibility study for putting a kitchen into a school that had no cooking facilities.  They were providing meals to the children, but these were not being cooked on site. We went to have a look.... We highlighted 3 possible areas that they could convert to a fully working kitchen and recommended the most suitable which was an old staffroom.  We provided designs and sourced equipment that would provide them with an...

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04Aug

CanEat in Stirchley – tricky but successful!

Earlier in the year Kitchen Solutions were approached by Caneat in Stirchley, Birmingham, with a challenging brief: · To design a professional front-of-house kitchen · With limited floor space · To use the old semi-domestic kitchen · To double production · To convert a room that had previously been used as a store & prep room into a dishwash area and cold room At design stage the biggest obstacle we had to overcome was the requirement for a dramatic increase in food output.  It is...

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06Jul

Built-In Oil Filtration: is it worth it?

For a few years now many manufacturers are offering fryers with oil filtration.  They are much more expensive but do they save you money and time in the long run? One thing to note is that particularly in today's market oil is becoming ever more expensive.  Not only that, but as we have seen shortages are likely to happen from time to time.  Ensuring a steady and cheap supply of fresh oil might not be as easy as extending the...

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