Cooking While Your Kitchen is Being Built

By Leslie (Guest Post)

While our kitchen was being remodeled, we used a hot plate for nights we wanted pasta, a crockpot for daily stew type meals (pot roast, chicken). Microwave for other items. A charcoal grill outside for other meals. I thought the worst part was cleanup afterwards. Without our dishwasher & sink we resorted to the laundry room sink & bathroom. Made for very messy cleanup!

By

kladybug

My first thought was that you need a crockpot!!!

By

Cyinda

I'd recommend you spend $12 & buy yourself either a propane single burner stove from Walmart or spend the same & buy a new electric one burner from Walgreens drug store (if you have Walgreens in your area) & sometimes you can even get a $5 rebate! You won't be sorry...

Of course you won't be wasting your money because you can always use either of them later on in a hotel room while traveling to make coffee or food, or you can use the electric one to keep something hot at a buffet & the propane one when camping... Of course, I bet you don't even need a tiny stove to camp with since you have a big one in your motorhome!

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cookwie

Try an electric skillet - I use one a lot on the back porch during the summer months to keep the heat out of the kitchen.

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Mellinda62

A few years ago we were without a stove for at least a month. I got by with cooking with an electric skillet, microwave, crock pot, fry daddy and gas grill. Only thing I missed was baking. So...as soon as we got the new stove I made an angel food cake...from scratch!

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Glenn'sMom

We went through that some years back when 2 of my boys were small. We ate in the living room (no dining room) and I washed dishes in 2 dishpans in the bathtub. Back killer that was! I cooked on 2 hot plates on a table in the living room. The children thought it was great fun to have picnics every day! Remember what they always say, "These are the 'good old days!'"

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Patty Lynn

One thing that might make your life easier on colder days is a crock pot. They are inexpensive, and you can cook virtually anything in them. I even saw someone on the Food Network bake a cake in a crock pot!