Chateau Dalheim - the kitchen

This weekend I'm cooking at Exhumation, held at Chateau Dalheim, just across the border from Maastricht in Wallonia, Belgium.

The chateau is relatively modern, having been built in 1912. It has since been renovated into a group accommodation - a bit of a budget job unfortunately, but the building is quite charming nonetheless.

As you may expect, my haunt is the kitchen, located in the basement/lower floor at the back of the chateau. Since the building is built into a slope, the kitchen actually has windows looking out across the chateau grounds.

The kitchen itself is pretty good. I'd rate it at 3.5/5 Goblin Ears. Highlight is a huge electric oven, spacious room and good supply of pans.

It also has a separate dishwashing kitchen - WITH PROFESSIONAL DISHWASHER - on the ground floor. The basement cooking kitchen and the dishwashing kitchen are connected with an ancient dumbwaiter, operated with pulleys and rope. You'll also find three different coffee makers here - a Senseo, a small percolator, and a 50 cup percolator urn.

Downsides: besides being in the basement, away from pretty much any of the goings on in the dining area, one big issue is the lack of electric kettles - there is exactly one in the whole building - and complete lack of thermos jugs which haven't been used for coffee. Don't people in Wallonia drink tea?

All in all, is a good, spacious kitchen. The stove has four high capacity burners.

Bring yourself: knives, electric kettle, thermos jugs

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