Anyone travel with kitchen utensils? lol. I know it sounds ridiculous but I stay in each spot for 6 months, get a local apartment and eat as healthy as possible so cooking is important.
What I have been doing is just buying what’s missing each time, usually around $200-300. Blender, spatula, knife sharpener, non aluminum fry pan, food storage containers, 2 large plastic cups for my smoothies (I make 2 days at a time), stuff like that.
But I also make my own desserts, to avoid white processed sugar and feed my addiction, and this gets a little more complicated. Today I bought 2 metal bowls, measuring spoons/cups and I want to buy a food scale and an oven thermostat. 😁
I usually donate the stuff to friends or the apartment owner when I leave.
But lately I have been thinking out might be easier/better to just bring another bag with me like a rolling suitcase and pack a small but complete kitchen so I don’t have to buy every time. I think an extra bag was $35 each way.
It’s an enormous amount of time finding all these things in a new place as well, although it helps me figure where to get supplies quickly.
Any other people out there living similar and encountering the same struggle?
It's really not, but you have to game the system.
Book an AirBnB for a week, if it's nice, check the availability for the next month(s) and if it's not booked up, talk to the host directly. You'll get a massive discount most likely, because they get shafted by AirBnB as much, if not more, than you do, with platform's fees.
That's how I got my flat in CDMX where I've been for majority of this year. I randomly ended up there late December last year because the place I booked didn't work out and I had nowhere to go, I loved it so much and found it so convenient I befriended the host/landlord and just renting directly from him now at a lower rate.
Granted, it's still not a local rate, but unfortunately you have to have a proper visa and local bank account to rent like a local, which I don't have - I'm still technically a tourist here. But it still works out for me, because it's just about what I'd have to pay for a room back home (London), and I get my own flat in a good district for that money here.