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?
I travel with a chef's knife, travel knife sharpener, honing steel, silicone oven mitts, chopsticks, digital kitchen scale, measuring spoons (mostly because I have a cute pig set that is very compact :D), and spices. I keep meaning to add a lightweight wooden cutting board to my "stash". And maybe some foot storage containers because I keep buying them wherever I go.
What is your travel knife sharpener? I think I’ve decide to remove the measuring cups because I can just weigh everything if I bring a small scale. But if it’s a cute pig set? Maybe there is room, haha
This: [ https://www.amazon.com/Lansky-2D2C-Diamond-Ceramic-Four/dp/B008EKY5OA?th=1 ] is the travel sharpening kit. It's a bit tedious but between it and the honing steel the knife stays more than workable for years.
This: [ https://www.amazon.com/MSC-Internationl-78938-Measuring-Measurements/dp/B00LI6V7ZM/ref=sr_1_10 ] is the cute pig measuring set.