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Reminds me of a non satire student cookbook where recipes are sectioned by what utensils and cooking appliances you have at hand. E.g. one pot, frying pan, etc.

• plufz 3y ago
  Or the sad microwave cooking https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TTp1iWAHHko https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TTp1iWAHHko
• Savely 3y ago
  As a student myself I’d appreciate all those recipe sites to have a filter by appliances. Seems half of recipes involving meat requires a stove I don’t have.
  • denkmoon 3y ago
    https://www.amazon.com/NutriChef-Portable-Induction-Cooktop-Electronic-Flameless/dp/B08CHGPBW3 https://www.amazon.com/NutriChef-Portable-Induction-Cooktop-... Perhaps a single burner induction cooktop is in your budget, which you can use to brown/fry meat.
    • SapporoChris 3y ago
      Thank you for posting this. It made me realize that with this very portable device I can eliminate a stove from dwelling requirements.
      • cinntaile 3y ago
        A lot of dishes would require more than one of these, at which point you might as well get an actual stove.
        • Eisenstein 3y ago
          With an Instant Pot, an induction burner, and a toaster oven you can make anything that would require a normal kitchen, just in smaller portions (as in, you aren't cooking a whole turkey or a giant casserole).
          • Scoundreller 3y ago
            Yeah, my “dream” kitchen that I’ll never have would have those instead of a range. And maybe a big slow cooker that could do a turkey. Edit: oh yeah, add an air fryer and bread machine. And kettle obvs. Preheats water for a pasta pot faster than the stove. Immersion >> conduction heating. The amount spent on a range buys a lot of gadgets. Not even wiring one up saves a circuit and dedicated run. I couldn’t live without a dishwasher though…
            • Eisenstein 3y ago
              How many people are you cooking for? I find that a dishwasher when only used for one or two people is more of a nuisance than washing dishes as they are used, mostly because you have to basically use all of your dishes before running it.
              • Scoundreller 3y ago
                Usually two, but I usually rinse plates if they have something that I know cakes on. When I empty it, I’ll let anything that needs another run in for the next run. Don’t need to run it every night.
              • SergeAx 3y ago
                You cannot achieve a dishwasher quality with your hands only. Partially because of the temperature, partially because of chemicals. I will never even try to wash wine glasses by hands.
                • cinntaile 3y ago
    • doctor_eval 3y ago
      Just want to second this. My family of four have been waiting for more than a year for our new kitchen (long and boring story) and we’ve managed fine after buying two of these to get by. And we enjoy cooking. So if you’re just starting out this is a great buy. A full size stove will have a larger element and better heat control but you won’t notice. And they are way better than a gas camp stove.
      • amluto 3y ago
        If you upgrade to a Breville Control Freak (not cheap, but cheaper than your new kitchen) and you get used to it (it require recalibrating your concept of how to use a stove a bit), you might find that you never use your new stove in your new kitchen. The Control Freak has: Better heat control. (That’s the entire point. It smokes essentially everything else in the market.) Painless preheating. Put on your pan, turn it on and set a temp, and go gather ingredients. Done. (Warning: it can substantially overshoot with cast iron, so be a bit careful.) Element size: it seems to produce more even heat on a 12” or even 14” pan than most gas ranges, even fancy ones. And you can use it with cheaper pans that have thick bottoms and thin sides without burning everything on the side. Your gas burner won’t be able to do this. Did I mention the heat control? You can cook pancakes without messing up the first batch (350F). You can do soft scrambled eggs pretty easily (240F or so and turn it off a bit before they look done). You can make chai easily (211F or so, then reduce to 185F before adding milk, then wait at least 20 min if not much longer). Perfect golden onions: 300F or so and stir occasionally — they won’t burn. Perfect chopped garlic: 230F or even cooler and be patient, although this is a matter of taste. Caution: the numbers are a bit different with different pans. It even doubles as a pretty good deep fryer if you’re careful. It caused me to change my opinion of cast iron skillets a bit: the high thermal may actually mostly be a crutch that compensates a bit for the lack of closed loop control in most stoves. Once you have closed-loop control, I suspect what you actually want is just enough thermal mass to get good control performance combined with enough thermal conductivity to maintain a decent temperature under inhomogeneous loads (pancakes, onions, etc) while those loads are busily sinking heat from the parts of the pan they’re on. Cast iron has under half the thermal conductivity of aluminum.
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  • defrost 3y ago
    Who needs a stove? https://youtu.be/lvVplicKlrc?t=185 https://youtu.be/lvVplicKlrc?t=185
  • b112 3y ago
    My perspnal hotel/dorm microwave+toaster grilled cheese sandwich. Toast bread in toaster first, well toasted. Put cheese slices on toast and nuke until it melts. The result is not mushy, due to the bread already being warm, and the minimal time in the microwave.
• erik_seaberg 3y ago
  I'm reminded of Dave Barry explaining a more advanced recipe as using two pots or pans, two "units of food", two stoves...
• carabiner 3y ago
  Chatgpt is REALLY good at coming up with reasonable recipes under arbitrary constraints. You have X ingredients and Y minutes to cook a meal for Z persons, with ABC cookware. It'll do it.
  • sigwinch28 3y ago
    Does ChatGPT tell me that I can caramelise onions in 15 minutes?
    • carabiner 3y ago
      Chatgpt tells you to live, laugh, and love.