Adelaide kitchens: 3 Christmas lunch ideas you can meal prep

Adelaide kitchens: 3 Christmas lunch ideas you can meal prep

Take a load off this year and make Christmas lunch easy by choosing simple recipes you can prep before the big day. And the best part about these convenient meals? You’ll spend less time in the kitchen and more time getting involved with the Christmas festivities.

3 Must-have appliances for your outdoor kitchen: Adelaide outdoor kitchen appliances

3 Must-have appliances for your outdoor kitchen: Adelaide outdoor kitchen appliances

Beyond a table, chairs, and a BBQ, what are some of the must-have appliances you need to create the ultimate outdoor cooking space? Here are the top three Adelaide outdoor kitchen appliances you need to enhance your backyard. 

How to host the ultimate outdoor Christmas lunch

How to host the ultimate outdoor Christmas lunch

It wouldn’t be an Aussie Christmas without the classic Chrissy lunch in the backyard. Read on to find out our top tips on how to host the ultimate outdoor Christmas lunch…

4 easy Christmas lunch ideas

4 easy Christmas lunch ideas

Cooking for Christmas doesn’t have to be hard - in fact, it can be super simple. So take a load off and read on to discover our top 4 easy Christmas lunch ideas…

Christmas charcoal cooking recipes

Christmas charcoal cooking recipes

Do yourself a favour this Christmas and use a charcoal cooker to create the ultimate Christmas lunch. It’s easy, simple, and oh-so-delicious! Read on to discover the best Christmas charcoal cooking recipes ever.

BBQ and wine - how to cook with wine at your BBQ

BBQ and wine - how to cook with wine at your BBQ

Meat and barbecues are our thing. But we also love a good glass of wine. So how can you combine the two? By cooking with wine, of course. Read on to learn how to cook with wine at your next BBQ.

Kitchen Wine Storage Ideas

Last week we shared the best places to store wine at home. In this blog, we'll share some super cool kitchen wine storage ideas.

Island Life

Re-purpose your kitchen island to accommodate wine. Keep it simple with a shallow, trellis style rack for several bottles or go all out and install a wine cooler within your kitchen island.

Kitchen Wine Storage Ideas - Adelaide Outdoor Kitchens

 Kitchen Wine Storage Ideas - Adelaide Outdoor Kitchens

Rack it Up

Utilise free cabinet space to store wine by installing shelving to accommodate your wine. This is suitable for home owners who'd like to store their wine collection, without taking up too much space. This idea is less work than re-purposing your kitchen island and looks really slick and modern.

Kitchen Wine Storage Ideas

Cabernet Cabinets

If you have excessive cupboard space you're looking to fill, turn that space into a wine storage area. Depending on your level of experience, this idea is totally achievable as a DIY job. Try fitting the cabinets with timber shelving and/or steel racks to hold your wine collection.

Kitchen Wine Storage Ideas

Pull Out a Piccolo

Probably the cheapest and easiest kitchen wine storage idea is utilising drawer space to store your wine. You can use a fridge tidier to stop the bottles from rolling around the drawer. Make sure you test the weight of the drawer before loading it up with wine. We suggest using the bottom drawers, as you should avoid heavy top drawers Wine drawers can also be custom made, specially for wine bottles too.

READ: Kitchen Drawer Ideas

Kitchen Wine Storage Ideas - Adelaide Outdoor Kitchens

Kitchen Wine Storage Ideas - Adelaide Outdoor Kitchens

Counter Offer

If you've got the counter space grab yourself a wine rack that can simply be placed on your kitchen counter.

Kitchen Wine Storage Ideas - Adelaide Outdoor Kitchens

Creative

There are some awesome custom designed wine racks that can be placed on the wall or left as a standalone feature in your kitchen or even your lounge.

Kitchen Wine Storage Ideas - Adelaide Outdoor Kitchens

Kitchen Wine Storage Ideas - Adelaide Outdoor Kitchens

Best Places to Store Wine at Home

With an abundance of delicious wines at our door step, every South Aussie home deserves a special place for a wine collection.  This blog covers the best places to store wine at home...

Choosing a wine cabinet is pretty much down to two things:

1. Personal preference: style, design, how it fits with the rest of the room's decor.

2. Space: how much wine you want to store. Depending on how much wine you drink (or like to collect) you might opt for a simple 12 bottle rack.

Choosing the right place for your wine cabinet or cooler requires a little more consideration.

Bad Locations to Store Wine at Home

Avoid locations that:

  • Have too much light
  • Insufficient ventilation
  • Fluctuations in temperature

Wine deteriorates under light. It could be natural light or electric lights. Either way - avoid placing your wine cooler in an area that receives a lot of light. Avoid placing your cooler by a window for instance. If you're running out of dark spaces in the house, somewhere with minimal light is okay, as long as the light isn't on for long periods of time.

Keep the surrounding temperature as constant as you can. You might find an office at the back of your house tends to stay cooler than other areas of the house or is more constant in its temperature.

Make sure the area around your wine stock is well ventilated.

Best Locations to Store Wine at Home

A Cellar

Not everyone has the space to build or accommodation their own wine cellar. But if you do, there are 4 tips to remember when building your wine cellar:

1. Remember to check the temperature of the cellar all year round. People often assume an underground cellar is cool all year round, but this isn't always the case.

2. Install climate control equipment to manage the temperature of the cellar. Using a traditional aircon will use up a lot of electricity and will only keep temperatures low, rather than adjusting to outside temperatures.

3. Install adequate installation to reduce the amount of energy the climate controller uses.

4. Carefully select a door that assists in keeping the room at the right temperature.

Best Places to Store Wine at Home - Adelaide Outdoor Kitchens

The Kitchen

The kitchen is the most convenient place to store your wine. It's easily accessible when serving guests and kitchens typically have enough space to accommodate a wine rack or cabinet. There are some real nifty ways to store wine in your kitchen which we'll share in next week's blog!

Places for a Wine Cooler in Your Home  - Adelaide Outdoor Kitchens

The Dining Room

Another convenient location, especially if you host a lot of dinner parties and/or frequently use your dining area. Dining room cabinets are a great place for storing wine. Just remember to keep it away from a window or any direct electric light.

Places for a Wine Cooler in Your Home  - Adelaide Outdoor Kitchens

Under the Stairs

The next best thing if you don't have a cellar but have a two-storey home. It's usually junk that takes up space in the cupboard below the stairs - ditch the junk and install a wine cellar under your stairs.

Places for a Wine Cooler in Your Home  - Adelaide Outdoor Kitchens

The Living Room

If you tend to consume your bottles of red in front of the telly, the living room may be the right place for your wine cooler. Like the kitchen and dining room, the living room is also a convenient place to store your wine. It can also be a cool feature for the room.

Places for a Wine Cooler in Your Home  - Adelaide Outdoor Kitchens