Kitchen vs. Scullery — What's the Difference?

A kitchen is a room or part of a room used for cooking and food preparation in a dwelling or in a commercial establishment. A modern middle-class residential kitchen is typically equipped with a stove, a sink with hot and cold running water, a refrigerator, and worktops and kitchen cabinets arranged according to a modular design.

A scullery is a room in a house, traditionally used for washing up dishes and laundering clothes, or as an overflow kitchen. Tasks performed in the scullery include cleaning dishes and cooking utensils (or storing them), occasional kitchen work, ironing, boiling water for cooking or bathing, and soaking and washing clothes.

A room or an area equipped for preparing and cooking food.

A small room adjoining a kitchen, in which dishwashing and other kitchen chores are done.

A style of cooking; cuisine

(historical) A small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done.

A staff that prepares, cooks, and serves food.

A place where dishes, kettles, and culinary utensils, are cleaned and kept; also, a room attached to the kitchen, where the coarse work is done; a back kitchen.

A room or area for preparing food.

Hence, refuse; filth; offal.

(by extension) Cuisine; style of cooking.

A small room (in large old British houses) next to the kitchen; where kitchen utensils are cleaned and kept and other rough household jobs are done

The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.

(music) The percussion section of an orchestra.

(dated) A utensil for roasting meat.

(attributive) A domesticated or uneducated form of a language.

(slang) A public gaming room in a casino.

(obsolete) Anything eaten as a relish with bread, potatoes, etc.; a condiment.

The region of a billiard table between the head rail and the head string.

To do kitchen work; to prepare food.

To embellish a basic food; to season, add condiments, etc.

(by extension) To embellish; to dress up.

A room equipped for cooking food; the room of a house, restaurant, or other building appropriated to cookery.

A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen.

The staff that works in a kitchen.

To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen.

A room equipped for preparing meals