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 went back and forth on this and there are so many variables and preferences that you really have to decide what is right for you. I will say that a large oven safe sauté pan can replace all other pans in a pinch. You can use it in the oven for cakes, loaves, cookies, casseroles, and on the stovetop for sauces, pasta, omelettes, steak whatever.
An immersion blender (with battery) or a blendtech (if you only do smoothies) is probably more portable and versatile than a blender itself.
You can also get collapsible silicone bakeware, bowls, containers etc that would let you take a lot more.
If you google camping cookware kits they will be focused on providing the most stuff in organized and travel sized things as well.
Good luck!