The simple things
are often the cheapest.
I had promised myself that once I got THE TEST out of the way I'd get back to cooking, partly as a hobby, and partly for health. I also read a book two months ago that got me thinking - it was about using local foods, and has inspired me to cook more with things produced around here - reducing carbon emissions and all that. Needless to say that if I am going to be doing that I'll be cooking a lot more, but I've been running a very reduced kitchen inventory all year as I rushed away from Hokkaido and left a lot of my cooking stuff there. None of it was expensive, so I thought I'd just replace it when I got here, but that was pre-"new financial reality" and so I have been making do ever since.
To cut out at least a little bit of the waffle, I wanted a big, deep saucepan, but had never seen one cheap enough for me until today - for $12.50 (equivalent) this is what I got:
It's only aluminium, and I only cooked pasta in it tonight, but I already see what the fuss is about - it rocked! Next will be my world-famous pumpkin soup. I had actually hoped it was going to be about seven or eight dollars, as they were selling a 20cm diameter one for $5.99, however as all real cooks know, you just can't live without at least a 21cm pan, and thus the extra expense was well justified. It's also teflon coated, and NOT IH (Inductive Heating - an unwanted very expensive feature of just about every other pan or pot here these days) which is acutally a bonus for me.
...and you all thought I was just a bike geek, well I can geek out about a lot more than just bikes, let me tell you!
I had promised myself that once I got THE TEST out of the way I'd get back to cooking, partly as a hobby, and partly for health. I also read a book two months ago that got me thinking - it was about using local foods, and has inspired me to cook more with things produced around here - reducing carbon emissions and all that. Needless to say that if I am going to be doing that I'll be cooking a lot more, but I've been running a very reduced kitchen inventory all year as I rushed away from Hokkaido and left a lot of my cooking stuff there. None of it was expensive, so I thought I'd just replace it when I got here, but that was pre-"new financial reality" and so I have been making do ever since.
To cut out at least a little bit of the waffle, I wanted a big, deep saucepan, but had never seen one cheap enough for me until today - for $12.50 (equivalent) this is what I got:
It's only aluminium, and I only cooked pasta in it tonight, but I already see what the fuss is about - it rocked! Next will be my world-famous pumpkin soup. I had actually hoped it was going to be about seven or eight dollars, as they were selling a 20cm diameter one for $5.99, however as all real cooks know, you just can't live without at least a 21cm pan, and thus the extra expense was well justified. It's also teflon coated, and NOT IH (Inductive Heating - an unwanted very expensive feature of just about every other pan or pot here these days) which is acutally a bonus for me.
...and you all thought I was just a bike geek, well I can geek out about a lot more than just bikes, let me tell you!
posted by kurisu at 9:09 PM
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