I hear you! If I ever build another house, my FINAL dream home, the primary cooking area will be outside! I can see this clearly in my mind...A great big grill area, oven, deep fryer, barbque pit, smoker, all sorts of hose bibs and tubs, fish cleaning and food prep, all of it covered!
Hanging cast iron pans, knives, and sundrys within easy reach off the cross members...An herb garden on one side and a vegetable garden on the other, a whole row of pricklypears on the southern escarpment, a row of black/rasberries/strawberries just growing like hell on the perimeter...a few handy sassafras trees, one mulberry off in the corner possibly...certainly a spice area and a small refridgerator/freezer and a old timey butter churn...a pellet gun handy, comfortable chair...canning supplies...My Grandpas old radio...
Yeah!..I can see it clearly! The only thing in the house would be a microwave and an electric coffee pot maybe!
Internal house stovetops are no place to try to cook, especially electric ones, a guy needs gas or a wood flame to do food justice!...especially bacon...or doing a whole rack of ribs, salmon, etc...Yeah...I can see it clearly...I'd sit out there all day long cooking, drinking, smoking..sharpening knives and listening to the radio...chewing on a sassafras twig and shooting at chipmunks...!
A nice brace of 'munks with a pricklypear/mulberry relish cooked properly in cast iron and stirred with a beechwood or maple spoon over an outdoor wood fire is really something extraordinary!...You just cant get those kind of eatings in a restaurant!
Its hard to describe, but y'all with a discerning palate know what I'm saying here...
Mud