We asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme of “in the kitchen”. Here is a selection of the photographs we received from around the world.
Sirsendu Gayen
Sirsendu Gayen: “Traditional kitchen in the Indian sate of Arunachal Pradesh.”
Sara Bickley
Sara Bickley: “Not just cooking that takes place in the kitchen, the kitchen sink is also a handy place to bath the dog. This is Toby the Yorkshire Terrier, who is 17.”
Linda Alkove
Linda Alkove: “A kitchen is not a kitchen when it is a bed of rocks. Or is it? Taken in Farmington, New Mexico.”
Dominik Ratynski
Dominik Ratynski: “Potwash, where I started three years ago.”
Carolyn DiFrancesco
Carolyn DiFrancesco: “Too colourful, too pretty to eat.”
Gianlorenzo Masini
Gianlorenzo Masini: “Natura morta, for big eaters.”
Roland Trope
Roland Trope: “Double Take. Guests and other visitors to Brasenose College, Oxford, may do a double take on seeing this pair of signs. It gives one pause about the preparation of the college meals.”
Evelyn Oakley
Evelyn Oakley: “In the late afternoon sun in my kitchen, with a cheese grater in my hand, I cast a mysterious shadow.”
Sue Hipperson
Sue Hipperson: “I put the egg down in the whisk to stop it rolling off the worktop and it just created this picture with the slight movement.”
Ian Knight
Ian Knight: “Three steps to preparing the perfect pancake, taken in my own kitchen and yes I am the photographer and the cook for these shots, timing is everything.”
Marianne Wever
Marianne Wever: “I live in the Netherlands. My kitchen still has an old-fashioned chimney. On the photo, my beloved gas cooker from the 1950s. It is still in use and I love to cook on it.”
Farnoush Hayati
Farnoush Hayati: “As an amateur photographer my kitchen is more than a place for culinary experience. Coloured lights + sink strainer + glass plate + water droplets = Saturday Night Fever.”
Jacqui Dimmock
Jacqui Dimmock: “Caution is the keyword for these guys while they undertake cleaning up this kitchen mishap!”