/ck/ - Food & Cooking

been wondering this myself. the only way to use the kitchen is to sign up in advance, and it's usually booked solid. i've had some luck cooking rice in the microwave, but all of the cheap staple foods such as beans and rice are a pain in the ass to prepare.

>>13628884
I just get boars head meat and bread.
Then again I'm not broke

To be honest, you'd be better off getting one of those cheap gas rings and a small rice cooker from the local Chinese supermarket.
On topic, you can probably make a load of variations of scrambled egg with a microwave.

Same with steamed and seasoned vegetables.

>>13628899
they don't allow open heat sources in the room, so rice cookers and electric kettles are banned

Imagine being in college lmao

Brutal!
I'd recommend getting a bunch of nice sauces and oils to add to steamed vegetables, meat and salmon. I recon buying a microwave steamer dish is probably the best option.
You could probably do congee in a microwave also.

>>13629003
good idea!

>>13628884
buy a rice cooker
steam veggies in microwave
frozen grilled chicken patties/strips
rotisserie chickens
salad

>>13628911
they won't bother with your rice cooker it is no different from a coffee maker with a burner

>>13629015
No you don't get it, they allow any of that other stuff either.

they banned: electric kettles, coffee makers, single electric burners, gas burners, rice cookers, electric griddles, even microwaves other than the one provided to each hall

>>13629015
on top of that, my RA is an absolute hardass and can sniff out people breaking the rules

>>13629086
I get it but they won't figure out and if they do you just gotta throw away a $9 rice cooker. I went to 3 different colleges and nobody gave a fuck even though it's against the rules. shit, people do drugs in the dorms and barely get caught. a rice cooker won't fucking matter.

>>13629086
>>13629090
say you have a food allergy
go to on-campus doctor complaining you are allergic and need a diagnosis
campus doctor will already have a broken spirit and will give you one
then you bitch at the RA you can't eat any food on-campus for risk of cross-contamination and you need to cook food in your dorm

>>13628884
Get one of those electric grills and bring it to your dorm, and if they get all cunthurt about you not being allowed to have it, shoot the place up.

They deserve it, it college not daycare.

>>13628911
i don’t think a kettle has ever caused a fire

>>13629314
they've pretty much banned anything that can trip the fire alarms

>broke college student

im so sick of this meme. just kill yourself or something

>>13629374
Suck my dick

>>13629374
but I'm an actual broke college person

>>13629356
put a condom around the smoke detector, retard

get rice cooker OR instapot. ask for it for christmas or whatever. a pressure cooker saved me during those dark times.

>Zoomers don't know about the George Foreman grills
yikes

>>13628884
Might be worth investing in a hotplate or camp stove if you really want to cook in your dorm.

>>13629660
I’m on my 10th probably, starting from like 2003ish

>>13628884
If they do not allow hot plates you can sorta use coffee heater. Also buy some glass containers, boil water add pasta +salt and cook on low until microwave aldente. Also oatmeal is your friend. I was never college student but made lots of military room food to save money, as my buddys would order food nearly everyday like idiots. "Anon you eating spaghetti again?" Me leaving Navy with 0 debt and 10k in bank and now free college plus they pay me 3500 dollars a month to go to school.. my buds with 20k car debt and 0 savings...

>>13628884
why the fuck do americans share 2 to a room?
that's gay as fuck.

>>13628884
>how to feed yourself when the dorm staff make getting access to the only kitchen in the building more effort than it's worth
move out into your own sharehouse with a few friends.

>>13628884
eat canned food, if you can't figure out how to cook, don't

>>13628884
Get a little hotplate for like $20. Get a cheap stainless steel pan. Get a cheap stainless pot. You're good to go. You can make pasta, rice, eggs, bacon, saute veggies, I have even made steaks on my hotplate.

>>13628911
Just take the smoke detector out. It's probably hardwired so just unplug it and take the battery out.

>>13628884
Get an instant pot. Way better than a microwave for dorm cooking. Grab a bottle of this shit and you can make stews or mini pot roasts real fucking easy. A little goes a real long way too.

>>13628911
>they don't allow
They have to find it first you dumbass

>>13628911
rice cooker isn't open heat source. it's a closed heat source. most dorm floor managers won't care and will let you out with loopholes. source: had an aquarium with snails and shrimp etc because "no fish" rule.

>>13631363
I could see cleaning becoming an issue. It would look awfully suspicious if anon comes out of his room with dirty dishes every day. I doubt he has a sink in his room. Still seems like bullshit, it's not boot camp, that RA needs to chill.

OP you need to move off campus ASAP. Dorms are more expensive IIRC.

Do what stoners do in the dorms: Tape a plastic bag over your smoke detector. Then you can just get a hot plate or whatever, as long as you don't have it out while your door is open and you crack your window so you aren't stinking up the hall no one is really gonna care if you're cooking. Maybe get one of the sweet lil induction cookers with the glass top.

thanks for the ideas guys, love y'all

>>13631433
inb4 i get called a faggot

>>13631433
>>13631449

Cook bacon and eggs in microwave, put on bagel. Ez breakfast sandwich
cold cuts and cheese sandwich for lunch
Instant mash or stuffing and cook a steak with pic related

>>13628911
There are so many asians at my school that they had to make an exception to allow kettles and ricecookers in dorms

>had a electric crock pot that i brought with me from home.
>would bus to the grocery store and get some veggies and chicken
>had all spices and herbs in my dorm
>cut and prepare it all in the communal kitchen and rush it back to my room to put in the pot.
>4 hours later me and my dorm mates would feast like kings while the chinks and poos eat up instant dinners and ruin their pallets
and yeah id clean it late at night and stick it in my dresser and was never caught

>>13629356
>>13631433
>>13631449
faggot
I bet you don't know how to do your own laundry

>>13628884
hint: get a ricecooker and throw the microwave away. you can make absolutely anything in a ricecooker. anything. you could make a fucking cheesecake in it if you wanted.

>>13628884
Buy a slow cooker and make soup, dumb ass. Use cheap, filling veggies like potatoes and use store bought chicken broth instead of water.

>>13628884
I'd imagine frying all your good would get tiresome after awhile, for oven use I'd suggest buying a halogen oven which again is not an open heat source.