Managing without a hob

PipneyJane

While our kitchen extension was being gutted and rebuilt, we survived for nearly 2 months with a microwave-convection oven and a slow cooker.

We lived on pasta bakes, toad in the hole, nut roasts, stews - anything that could be cooked in the oven, ignoring the instructions to fry xx ingredients first. I also cooked roasting chickens, curries and stews in the slow cooker. So much of what I normally cook starts "fry onion with mushrooms, add garlic then spices" that if I did it again, I'd buy an electric frying pan and use that for most of my curries.

You can cook rice in a microwave. There's a special "microwave pressure cooker" for the purpose, which costs a couple of Pounds. Takes 15 minutes from start to finish.

- Pip

jackieblack

When I had no kitchen, I managed feeding my family for four months with one of these.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/VonShef-Hot-Plate-Parent/dp/B075MGN1TM/ref=zg_bs_3538353031_15?_encoding=UTF8&refRID=EAD0NXVSHPJS7529F82B