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An electric range for $60 goes a long way. Hell when I was homeless I used a portable gas stove that even works on siphoned gasoline, and packs up in a bag abo

An electric range for $60 goes a long way. Hell when I was homeless I used a portable gas stove that even works on siphoned gasoline, and packs up in a bag about the diameter of a cellphone wide, hardly ever needed to eat out.

thfuran 3y ago
And where are you going to store cookware and tableware and spices and other ingredients in a hotel room? Some suites or longstay rooms are better equiped for it, but regular hotel rooms just aren't designed for long-term residence.
- OfSanguineFire 3y ago
  People have lived in e.g. bedsits in the UK for years and still managed to store enough utensils and spices for their own use. There are even vandwellers and overlanders who are gourmets and pleasurably cook in the space they have. When I visit the US I am always struck by how much stuff people own there, and a lot of that is kitchen stuff specifically. But most of the world -- including many other developed countries -- make do with less and don't necessarily even think about it.
- Qwertious 3y ago
  Camping equipment is designed to be compact and fit in a backpack, all of this stuff was figured out by the 1930s traveling workers who were known as hobos. You don't need a large variety of spices, and spices are compact as heck. If you're going to cook, you can buy same-day or even a few days' worth of food.
  - thfuran 3y ago
    >all of this stuff was figured out by the 1930s traveling workers who were known as hobos. It may surprise you to learn that most people want a quality of life exceeding that of a hobo.
    - southernplaces7 3y ago
      Cooking with a compact set of portable kitchen tools and economized storage for basic foodstuffs and spices is absolutely not the same as living like a literal hobo. Again, millions, possibly billions of people live like this and often very comfortably. What you say is both plain condescending and all the worse in that for also being ignorant nonsense.
- southernplaces7 3y ago
  Well, you could, for example, store it in a small piece of shelving furniture that you get somewhere, right next to your little portable range stove (electric or gas) problem solved for an incredibly broad amount of cooking, pretty much anything that doesn't require baking, and there are even pots that let you get around that, compact slow cookers too. No hotel room is so small that it doesn't fit such modest tools. Do you really think it's near impossible to endure hotel room or compact apartment living living unless you can absolutely have the tools and space of a full-blown suburban kitchen in there? Comments like these truly remind me of how removed a certain subset is from how billions of people can live comfortably for years on end by improvising modestly. Similar to another example comment I saw by someone on this site who really thought that it was just impossible to make coffee at home unless he had a full-blown espresso/capuchino machine of the kind some commercial cafe might use.

thfuran 3y ago

And where are you going to store cookware and tableware and spices and other ingredients in a hotel room? Some suites or longstay rooms are better equiped for it, but regular hotel rooms just aren't designed for long-term residence.

OfSanguineFire 3y ago
People have lived in e.g. bedsits in the UK for years and still managed to store enough utensils and spices for their own use. There are even vandwellers and overlanders who are gourmets and pleasurably cook in the space they have. When I visit the US I am always struck by how much stuff people own there, and a lot of that is kitchen stuff specifically. But most of the world -- including many other developed countries -- make do with less and don't necessarily even think about it.
Qwertious 3y ago
Camping equipment is designed to be compact and fit in a backpack, all of this stuff was figured out by the 1930s traveling workers who were known as hobos. You don't need a large variety of spices, and spices are compact as heck. If you're going to cook, you can buy same-day or even a few days' worth of food.
- thfuran 3y ago
  >all of this stuff was figured out by the 1930s traveling workers who were known as hobos. It may surprise you to learn that most people want a quality of life exceeding that of a hobo.
  - southernplaces7 3y ago
    Cooking with a compact set of portable kitchen tools and economized storage for basic foodstuffs and spices is absolutely not the same as living like a literal hobo. Again, millions, possibly billions of people live like this and often very comfortably. What you say is both plain condescending and all the worse in that for also being ignorant nonsense.
southernplaces7 3y ago
Well, you could, for example, store it in a small piece of shelving furniture that you get somewhere, right next to your little portable range stove (electric or gas) problem solved for an incredibly broad amount of cooking, pretty much anything that doesn't require baking, and there are even pots that let you get around that, compact slow cookers too. No hotel room is so small that it doesn't fit such modest tools. Do you really think it's near impossible to endure hotel room or compact apartment living living unless you can absolutely have the tools and space of a full-blown suburban kitchen in there? Comments like these truly remind me of how removed a certain subset is from how billions of people can live comfortably for years on end by improvising modestly. Similar to another example comment I saw by someone on this site who really thought that it was just impossible to make coffee at home unless he had a full-blown espresso/capuchino machine of the kind some commercial cafe might use.