The problem with most play kitchens is that they are furniture. They arrive flat-packed, they take an evening to assemble, and once built they own a corner of a room permanently. This one solves that by being a suitcase. It is a yellow hard case with white corner guards, a carry handle and two latches, and everything folds inside it.

Opened, the lid stands up as a back wall and the base becomes a white worktop badged FUNNY KITCHEN. Two recessed wells in the top take the pots, a grey tap sits on the right, and two teal trays swing out from either side to hold ingredients. The back wall carries a printed COOKING menu board, a rail with a slotted red turner and a grey spoon and fork hung on hooks, and a moulded appliance strip below.

The cookware is the part children actually handle. A teal pot with a blue lid is printed with the word COOKING, and a matching teal pan with a blue lid holds a piece of orange food. There are two blue plates, an orange fork and turner, a white sauce bottle labelled with a tomato, a blue beaker printed with a smiling apple, and two vegetables — a green one and a purple aubergine — that live in the fold-out side trays.

The belly band on the case markets it as a 2-in-1 play house, and the practical version of that claim is simple: it is a kitchen when open and a box when shut. Everything drops back inside, the latches close, and a child carries it away by the handle. That makes it a genuinely different proposition from a fixed play kitchen — it travels to a grandparent's house, goes on a trip, and disappears when guests come.

The pieces are small parts and the case has hinges, so this suits a child of about three and upward rather than a baby. Nothing in it is electric, so there are no batteries to buy and nothing to charge. Everything wipes clean, which matters once the tap gets used with real water — it is not plumbed, but children will try it.

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