The Kitchens

The kitchens are located directly under the Great Hall in an enormous, high-ceilinged room. It has stone walls, heaps of brass pots and pans, and a large brick fireplace at one end. The kitchens contain four long wooden tables positioned exactly the same way as the tables above. Food must simply be placed on these tables in the kitchens in order to be sent up through the ceiling to their counterparts upstairs. The kitchens are staffed by over a hundred house-elves. To gain access to the kitchens, one must go down the corridor to the right of the main staircase in the Entrance Hall, find the painting of a bowl of fruit and tickle the pear, which then giggles and becomes a door handle.