Community kitchen?

[genevra-mcneil.livejournal.com]

I feel like there's an obvious answer for this that I'm totally missing, but I've wracked my brain and can't see the forest for the trees.

Is there a community kitchen or something like it in the area? I'm talking about a large industrial kitchen that an individual or group can rent/reserve to do big cooking projects. I imagine I could call around and ask a couple of the churches but since I'm not a member of any church I think I'd feel weird doing that.

This isn't for any official group -- I just have a few friends who would like to all have a pre-holiday cooking get together.

Comments

[siderea]

although i could be wrong since this would just be making food for yourselves...

Yeah, if you're making food for your own consumption, it's absolutely no problem. I belong to an organization which has been renting churches and cooking in their kitchens, a whole lot, for a long time.

(The real question is whether any of the local churches' kitchens are any good. "Church kitchen" is not a phrase which conotates a quality industrial kitchen to me.)

[annalauwa.livejournal.com]

hehe i guess it depends on the church. we're able to cook for over 200 people each sunday (not saying it's the best kitchen, but everything works), and i know that st atheineasius in arlington heights has a ridiculously good kitchen. crazy greeks.