Can you survive without a stove top in your kitchen? That’s our challenge. We got back from Switzerland to find the stove top that used to work long enough to boil water now has stopped working entirely. It must be French and has gone on strike.
When it started acting up, I asked the woman at Caterpillar who oversees the ISE’s: who must pay for its repair? Me? Or the homeowner? (since we rented a house with an equipped kitchen) The answer: me. Well, I’m in no hurry to repair someone else’s appliance. Especially after Bill did a little internet searching and found message boards dedicated to unhappy owners of this same cook top. It is apparently notoriously bad… and some people have spent more than the cost of the thing in repairs. And it cost 1200 Euros. Not cheap. Not what I’d have spent in my own kitchen, that is for sure. So to have it pushed upon me to repair this thing, well that just annoys me.
It’s harder than you might think to only cook things in the oven. No eggs. No spaghetti. I can’t even bake a quiche because you’re supposed to saute the onions and bacon bits before adding them to the eggs and putting it all in the oven. Can’t steam veggies. Can only eat microwave rice. Thank goodness yesterday we got a box of Easy Mac for Christmas!
Today I’m dragging Kaitlyn to the store to buy a crock pot and maybe a crepe maker/griddle of some sort. She doesn’t like crepes but if you can fry an egg on it, then it’d be ok.
No eggs…no spaghetti…. oh my, those are the only two things I can cook (okay, bacon, steaks and hamburgers and hot dogs). I’d really be up the creek without that stove. How about one of those small burner-cooker things used by caterers, with a small tank of gas? Or check Craigslist for Grenoble to see if anyone has a used cooktop for sale for cheapo.