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Naturekast Outdoor Kitchen

This Naturekast outdoor kitchen uses outdoor rated weather-proof cabinetry which is a must with Florida’s oppressive heat and humidity. As avid cooks and grill masters this couple wanted a space to entertain when the weather was right, but also provide opportunities to utilize different cooking methods that you just can’t replicate indoors.

And that’s exactly what the homeowners recieved with their new Naturekast outdoor kitchen. With an outdoor rated refrigerator and a power burner that could launch the space shuttle in addition to their main Alfresco grill, these happy homeowners grill out several times a week in this fabulous space.

Let’s dig into exactly what makes this Naturekast outdoor kitchen one that will make your neighbors jealous. First lets review the Naturekast outdoor cabinetry. Naturekast is a Canadian company that manufactures these amazing products. This particular style of outdoor cabinetry has a shaker door in graphite. The doors are made of from a resin that is injected into a mold so it has the texture and look of real wood, but is a weatherproof resin that will never fail no matter what the situation is outside.

To give you an example of how special this material is, in Naturekast’s factory they have a fish tank and in that tank are 2 of Naturekast’s doors. They’ve been in that fish tank fully submerged in water for more than 3 years and they look brand new. No warping, no cupping, no damage what so ever from the water.

Alfresco Grills & Accessories

The Alfresco 36″ grill provides a ton of versatility. Alfresco is known for not only their high quality – the Cadillac of grills – but also the astounding number of ways you can cook on the grill. Alfresco has a number of accessories like insert baskets that can fry, steam or boil pasta or roasting pods, charcoal inserts, griddles and even ways to turn this gas grill into a wood fired grill. Alfresco really allows you to have a true outdoor kitchen rather than just a fancy grill.

Alfresco Power Burner

The Alfresco power burner is so powerful it could launch the space shuttle into orbit (albeit probably a small space shuttle). At 75,000 BTU which for reference a single burner on high end grills is 25,000 BTU, so this is way more powerful. That’s great but what do I need all that power for? How about frying a turkey for Thanksgiving (which is amazing if you haven’t tried it) or a weekend shrimp boil, or perhaps you’re getting fancy and you’ve got crab legs or lobster and need a giant pot to boil them in.

The power burner also has a giant wok, which will give your asian inspired dish the authentic taste and texture. Wok cooking requires an insanely high powered burner to do it right and guess what the Aflresco power burner is?

Outdoor Refrigerator

Finally an outdoor rated refrigerator. These are not your “disposable” dorm mini-fridges, if it is 100 degrees outside guess what temperature your beer is going to be? With a dorm style mini-fridge maybe it is going to 30 or 40 degrees below the ambient temperature which doesn’t exactly make for an ice cold beer. It should be an ice cold 34 degrees if you have a true outdoor refrigerator.

Normal mini-fridges aren’t even refrigerators if we want to get technical, they’ve got a heat sink inside of them and the cool using that “freezer shelf”. A true outdoor refrigerator has a condenser and compressor and is a forced air refrigerator, but the compressor has to be super powered to take on the volitility of being outside. It also has to have much more insulation than it’s standard indoor cousin and becuase of those factors a true outdoor rated refrigerator isn’t exactly cheap when compared to that $150 dorm “fridge”.