Slow cooker

[abcdefg]

If you don't have much of a kitchen and don't have a Chinese wife who likes to cook, one item you should look into over here is a slow cooker or crock pot. They are called 电炖锅 = diàn dùn guō which literally means "electric stew pot." They aren't at all hard to find and they are not very expensive. I bought a small one for 139 RMB.

You can put fresh vegetables from the market into one of these with a ham bone or some meat and in two or three hours you will have an easy and delicious bachelor meal. I would put it right up there with the 电饭锅 (rice cooker) as an essential living tool and wish I had discovered it several years ago.

[skylee]

How nice.

I have been living with a small cooking pot which is large enough for instant noodle only for over a decade now. No microwave oven, no toaster, no rice cooker, no pan. It is ridiculous. I have wanted to buy many cooking appliances for many years, but whenever I thought about the actual cooking, I stopped. Buying them is easy, using them is not.

At the christmas party last December I got a lucky draw prize which is a mini rice cooker. It is still in the drawer of my office desk.

I do have an electric kettle.

I envy people who likes to cook.

[chrix]

abcdefg, I did exactly the same thing, when I was living in Taiwan, with rice and eggs though

OK, I didn't use a special pot, just a standard frying pan for the veggies, and a pot for the rice...