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SROs often have no kitchen and don't allow hotplates etc., but allow microwaves, rice cookers, and similar appliances.
by strken 5y ago
SROs often have no kitchen and don't allow hotplates etc., but allow microwaves, rice cookers, and similar appliances.
- riffraff 5y agoForgive my ignorance but what does "SRO" mean? I'm not an English native speaker and google is useless for acronyms unless you have context.
- buck4roo 5y agoSingle room occupancy. A type of hotel, with shared bathrooms down the hall. Here's an article from yesterday's NYT that has a historical background section about halfway down: When No Landlord Will Rent to You, Where Do You Go? https://nyti.ms/33ZiTKV https://nyti.ms/33ZiTKV
- tomcooks 5y agoSRO? You can cook in microwaves and rice cookers, no?
- maccard 5y agoCooking a meal from fresh ingredients in a microwave seems like a pretty Herculan task to me, as someone who cooks every day
- chrisseaton 5y agoYou’re on a real let-them-eat-cake roll here.
- Broken_Hippo 5y agoMicrowaves are known for making it easy to cook a complete meal for a family of four, right? Especially the small ones that are common in hotel rooms? And you have to afford a rice cooker and have a way to learn to cook with it. Maybe you have internet, but maybe your phone just broke. Poverty simply means you live without things. I lived for some years cooking on burner plates because I couldn't afford propane/natural gas (different houses). I also didn't have hot water. If my electricity got turned off? No warm food. There are a number of rentals that do not come with appliances. "You can use what is there, but if it breaks, I'm not replacing it" happens a lot too. Maybe you can rent one, maybe not. You can probably carry a rice cooker home if you don't have transportation, but not a microwave (easily, anyway)