The main functions of a kitchen are to store, prepare and cook food (and to complete related tasks such as dishwashing). The room or area may also be used for dining (or small meals such as breakfast), entertaining and laundry. The design and construction of kitchens is a huge market all over the world.

A kitchen is a room, or a portion of a room, in a home or a business that is used for cooking and food preparation. There are many various kinds of kitchen tools and appliances (apron, bowl, teapot, oven glove, rolling pin, grater, cabinet, cupboard, dinner table, etc.) that are found inside the kitchen.

From the verb coquere came the later Latin noun coquina, meaning “a kitchen.” With some changes in pronunciation, coquina came into Old English as cycene. This became Middle English kichene and finally modern English kitchen.

“Kitchen” means a room or space within a building used or intended to be used for the cooking or preparation of food.