Man Kitchen

mxskeeter wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>jwellsy wrote:</div>
A manly kitchen needs some manly knives.

If you’re going to have knives there get a wall mount magnet knife holder.

for sure!!!

Thanks for the idea! I was going to make one out of cedar but digging the magnetic ones

glenn57 wrote:

did it lay outside on the ice first?? That becthe first clue. Personally that slime doesn’t bother me. Cleaned my share of them slimers

Yes – and I know that’s about the worst thing you can do. I’ve heard a burlap bag helps a lot. I don’t spear a lot, Anyway – I don’t mean to distract from the thread – I can deal with slime, too, but I would’ve loved just to be able to hose it all down rather than have to wipe it all up. even with my big wooden board, you can only do so much with the sink sprayer before I’m covering the kitchen in slimy splatter. Need a better home set-up for the occasional bigger fish.

It looks awesome Bman, wish I had the space to pull this off at my place. Well done sir.

ThunderLund78 wrote:

I could’ve used this set-up today. Cleaned a 32″ pike on a board on the kitchen counter, my wife was none to happy. Normally I wouldn’t keep a 32″ <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>pike but it was speared. No idea why they’re slimier in the winter, but I’m glad the ordeal is over.

In this situation – to avoid another situation , I rip the filet and skin off in the cold garage and debone in the warmth… I put a towel and cutting board over the washing machine that tips toward the utility tub to clean fish inside.

If I brought a frozen pike in to clean on my wife’s Cambria counters…I’d meet the same fate as B-man’s wolf.

Hot & cold water with a sink in the garage was the most underrated part of designing a garage.

I have a cutting board that I use on top of the washing machine. I wipe down with lemon wipes when done. Making sure it is cleaner when I am done then it was when I started.

Here is the board: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07C81T4R8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

buckybadger wrote:

If I brought a frozen pike in to clean on my wife’s Cambria counters…I’d meet the same fate as B-man’s wolf.

HA! I only wish they were Cambria.

I wish I had the space to do something like this BMan! In the meantime I’ll stick with an empty case of beer on the garage work bench.

Not sure what cambria counter tops are but I have a thin(3/16 or so) sheet of plastic I put on the kitchen table in the event I need to clean fish in the winter. My wife also helps with the process. B-man I am jealous of your set up though and wish I could do something like that at home.

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John Rasmussen wrote:

It looks awesome Bman, wish I had the space to pull this off at my place. Well done sir.

Thanks all you guys, I seriously hope it can be an inspiration!

The one I just built is huge compared to my last one, but that one worked perfectly.

You don’t need a ton of room, if you can find 6-8′ of wall space ANYWHERE in the garage or basement you’d be set.

My last one was a 6′ homemade counter with a 2′ laundry tub. I cleaned a million critters, veggies, and fungi on it. They’re also handy for doing big dishes (roaster pans, meat tubs, crock pots, cutting boards). If it’s in the garage they’re awesome for messy outdoor meal prep/cleanup like battering fish, skewering kabobs, applying meat rubs, etc. If you have a garden and do a lot of veggie cleaning and canning there’s nothing better.

On my last one I didn’t have easy access for drainage, so I just poked the pipe through the garage wall and had it splash onto some rocks (probably not code anywhere in the US, but in my eyes it’s organic material and no different than cleaning fish on the picnic table outside)

PEX is ridiculously easy to work with and fish through floor joists, crawl spaces, attach to walls/ceilings, under stairs, etc.

If you can get water there but drainage is the hold up, a guy could plumb the drain into 5 gallon buckets if you have somewhere to easily dump them (say a basement floor drain in another room), or run a flexible temporary line to a floor drain during use if more permanent hard pipe would be in the way.

Another idea, if the only sewer is overhead (like in the floor joists), you could have a waste tank with a grinder pump and plumb it in above.

Where there’s a will there’s a way

Once you have a cleaning station you’ll wonder how you ever got by without. If I move 10 more times before I push daisies I’ll build 10 more

Bman. That’s what are drainage system is i. The winter months. 5 gallon bucket under the sink

glenn57 wrote:

Bman. That’s what are drainage system is i. The winter months. 5 gallon bucket under the sink

Before I plumbed my old one through the wall that’s what I did too.

I installed a $10 basement water level alarm in the buckets. It worked awesome and I didn’t have to poke my head under the sink a hundred times wondering if it was overflowing yet lol