Kitchen refurb

I fancy putting a warming drawer in my new kitchen but am baulking a bit at the price of £300-400. Has anyone considered DIYing one in a regular drawer?

First thoughts are for a sealed, insulated and moisture resistant carcass pocket with simple a thermostatically controlled air circulator in a compact hair drier stylee. Then have a metal drawer set fitting in that with an insulated and sealed door set.

I can see release of contaminants from greased bearings on the runners being an issue as they would be in the heated pocket but imagine something could be done there, even just running them dry.

Temps are low, below 80degC.

Any other thoughts?

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fred
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oven on low for 30mins?

Jim K

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Jim K

Dual oven, with warming setting. OK, so neither half is big enough for a roast turkey - but since we never put one in the old oven either...

Andy

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Andy Champ

Yes, that is an option but the plans are for 3 ovens already and no spares ;-)

If anyone's interested, it's one built-in single for big stuff and a built-in double with the upper for use as a dedicated grill and the lower for use as the day to day economical oven.

The warmer is to make life easier and since there's room, why not? Prob better economy too as I'd probably only put 100-200 watts in it.

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fred

Simplest is a celotex lined drawer with a couple of bulb holders & a thermo meter. You can pick bulb wattages later to get whatever temp you want. Add a 12v computer fan on a 6v wart to circulate the air. Top can just be a pie ce of celotex you lift off. Can be used for drying foods too.

NT

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meow2222

We have a warm cupboard! Not by design but the kick space heater which runs off the central heating is under the kitchen cupboard that we keep the plates in. Result. Fairly warm plates straight from the cupboard!

Mike

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Muddymike

I think you stand a good chance of burning the place down at some point in the future..

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harry

In article , Muddymike writes

Well, that shows that simple could work, a metal base with some power resistors stuck on the underside could provide the heat and an open wire mesh drawer could hold plates or food containers to keep warm. It's keeping food warm before serving that makes moisture proof construction important.

Think having the C/H on to warm the plates may be a bit excessive but I do have plans to feed hot air into a tumble drier from a variation on a C/H fed kickspace heater.

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fred

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