Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
I do a lot of stirfry type cooking and I’m tired of the grease floating around my kitchen even though I have a pretty good exhaust system. So in the past couple of months, I’ve been taking our electric frying pan out to the deck and cooking. Since that works so well I bought a much smaller electric frying pan that is easily portable

so may I present my “outdoor kitchen “which cost about 20 bucks rather than the $18,000 other people spend on their outdoor kitchens. We also have the typical gas grill, but we never use it

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Wow, what a great idea--at least for the summer! DH is a stovetop cook, and he loves sauteeing in a lot of fat. Our house probably reeks of grease. We don't have an exhaust system, although I did just recently purchase a portable one.

Regarding early morning's outbuilding post, our little quarter-acre is starting to fill up. When we bought the place, it was a house, two storage sheds and one "workshop" shed. We also have three lean-to's for wood and garbage cans. We added the camper two years ago for DD/DSIL. DS#3 and DDIL have just purchased a shed kit that will be assembled in the footprint of a fallow garden bed in a couple of weeks. They come up here so often (nearly every weekend), they didn't want to keep imposing by sleeping in my office. I'm a little nervous about what the neighbors will say, but we don't need a permit if it's 100 sq.ft or under, so it's really none of their business. But still. This is it. No more adding ANYTHING to our yard. Really.