Extremely weak stove, kitchen came with the appartement. I notified my landlord once about the inbuilt freezer door breaking off from his 20 year old piece of cheap shit fridge / freezer combo and wouldn't you know it the fucker looked for a replacement freezer door for 3 months instead of spending like 300 eurodollars to update the fucking thing.

It had cast iron (no, really) hot plates with electrical coils to heat them so despite having a range of heats it did only have binary on/off switch for all purposes and if you have to heat a small cast iron pan to heat your actual pan that just takes a fucking while. also you have 0 temperature control. It's hot, and that sticks, eventually, it may not be.

But similar stories as per landlord special kitchen appliances aren't exactly uncommon.

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jesus dude, you might actually get better results buying a pair of trangia's to cook on. At least then you could choose between high and low heat.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

I've long since moved out and I could deal with it on account of my mom making me into a pretty good home cook but I despair at the thought of a time strapped adult trying to learn to cook on that piece of shit.

Imagine reading "let simmer at medium low heat for 10 mins", cranking the dial to 4/10, return 10 minutes later and have all your shit burned. You'd fucking call it quits immediatly and think you're like Homer Simpsons levels of bad cook, meanwhile, the problem was the cookbook presupposes some sort of halfway functioning cooking equipment and you get the landlord special