Introduction
A good service place with a well-designed and attractive decorations, the illuminating design is also an earning part of the business restaurant. Cause the quality of your establishment food is one of the primary factor to motivate customer back with their friends, family or workmate, the health and fresh dish is quite to satisfy people’s savory. That is, with a bright and clear illuminating is a key element for preparing the food or cooking the food.
What is Kitchen
To eat and drink enough is the basic way for human beings continue to survive. Kitchen is a room used to cooking, cleaning vegetable and fruit, baking and roasting any delicious and healthy thins for human eating, which as the heard of our home, as well as the service place. A good kitchen lighting design is the key soul for people preparing their daily meals well and eating well, no matter the ambient lighting, task lighting, or accent lighting. And the kitchen dis ivided into several spaces, one is for chopping and washing vegetables, one is for arched, fried, grilling, and steamed, and the other is for storing and displaying.
- Food storage area: This area use to store ingredients, seasonings and clothing in the shelves or cabinets, and some frozen ingredients are stored in the freezer
- Kitchen appliance storage area: This area is used to store frying pan, scissors, dishes, knife, fork, chopsticks, spoon lamp, and other utensils. They are hung on the wall or stored in the locker respectively
- Cleaning area: This area is equipped with a sink, tap, and sink cabinet for washing dishes, dishes and other utensils. A rubbish disposal can be installed in the corresponding sink connection so that the waste can be disposed of. Underneath the sink, there is usually a bin, rubbish bags and various washing utensils.
- Preparation area: This area is used to do most operating works, such as chopping, flour mixing, prepared ingredients, and the cooking tools often used on the counter.
- Cooking and baking area: These areas use to cook food with various cooking utensils.
Each space of different use, lighting needs are also different, following will show three lighting points for the kitchen.
This passage collects some tips for kitchen lighting project.
The first is ambient lighting.
Considering there will be a glass wall or glass window of the kitchen design, a part of the kitchen light that comes through the glass during the day, so use the LED lamps with natural light to mimic the skylight for lighting is better for create an ambient lighting for the kitchen in the white day. At night, its the same as the day, mixing functionary and design to create a temperature, choosing recessed LED lamps for direct lighting and LED linear models with glass balls for diffused lighting, using with them to provide comfortable lighting ambient. Just do it as a part of your living room at first, make it comfort and safety with use not limit to ceiling light,chandeliers, pendant lights, recessed lights or flushmounts.
The second is task lighting
Task lighting is crucial lighting in the kitchen to keep us focusing on cooking or doing other kitchen work, while ambient lighting lets us have a first impression and mood for the kitchen. With the help of task lighting, we can chop and dig the peel safely, we can easily distinguish between raw and cooked food ingredients, and we can read recipes and easily spot ingredients on the shelves. Therefore, mounting the task lighting of the cooking area, cleaning area, and food preparation area precisely can allow us work safely while reducing eye strain under the adequate lighting. The closet light, recessed downlight and pendant light are ideal for task lighting.
The third is accent lighting.
Accent lighting is similar to the task lighting at a certain level. It also lights out the point things. For example, the storage food lighting, the art wall lighting, and the counter surface lighting. Selecting a dimmale temperature accent lighting can also create an atmosphere. Shine light at 30° from vertical with the eyeball or other adjustable trims is perfect for choice.
What kind of functional light should you choose For Kitchen?
Because the kitchen is a working room, the cooks have to take high passion and focus on work during preparing food and cooking food, so the lights of temperature from 4000k to 6000k is better installed in the kitchen. As for the ambient kitchen lighting, 5,000 -10,000 lumens with task lighting at counters, sink and range a minimum of 450 lumens in the area is better. What's more, the kitchen room requires high waterproof and dustproof lamps for its always filled with steam and other dust, so choosing IP44 and IP54 with good CRI is more suitable for it. When installing the lights, we should consider the lighting angle design to reduce glare pollution.
Other tips
Some service place apply the open kitchen or buffet kitchen for client managing their food by themselves, such as the sushi buffet, DIY cooking, and exposed cooking stations. Such kind of kitchens has a high requirement for fancy and innovative design to attract client. That also means LEDs can be made to emit a wide range of colors similar to the warm light of pendant light, tube light, downlight or track light, as well as hues of white light that many people find more appealing.
At last, a good kitchen lighting design leaves without a smart lighting control system today, One-touch control is convenient for people to turn on and turn off the light, it’s easy to dim and adjust the lighting temperature as well. By the way, the energy saving of LED smart system is more favoured by the restaurant owner to operating reduce cost.
