Do you need a Maker in your life?

[Valentine Z]

IIRC, Valentine Z is Singaporean.

I thought Singapore was expensive too! Either that or groceries and utilities there are like, super pricey

It is pretty expensive. I might have overestimated the homecooking costs, so I stand corrected that homecooking is not too cheap, but eating out can be relatively expensive unless you are going to be economic. Homecooking more or less stays the same due to consistent costs of the groceries and the utilities, but eating out is a whole different thing.

I found a neat little source here because personally, I might be skewed or have a way different mileage. For the meals? You can get a decent meal for around SGD 5.00, which is around USD 3.64. Maybe USD 5 / meal if you add drinks and the like. There are stalls called "Economic Cuisine/Rice" that basically gets you rice + meat + veg for that cost... sometimes lower.

I forgot to add that the reason eating out can be slightly cheaper in Singapore is because I am talking about the hawker centres / food courts, not the restaurants or diners. So... these food courts are self-serving, as in you will have to go there and collect your own food and the like, so there is no service charge. I think this would explain why eating out can be cheaper if you go to the food courts. Eating in a restaurant will drain your wallet.

[Samudera Darussalam]

I thought Singapore was expensive too! Either that or groceries and utilities there are like, super pricey

It is pretty expensive. I might have overestimated the homecooking costs, so I stand corrected that homecooking is not too cheap, but eating out can be relatively expensive unless you are going to be economic. Homecooking more or less stays the same due to consistent costs of the groceries and the utilities, but eating out is a whole different thing.

I found a neat little source here because personally, I might be skewed or have a way different mileage. For the meals? You can get a decent meal for around SGD 5.00, which is around USD 3.64. Maybe USD 5 / meal if you add drinks and the like. There are stalls called "Economic Cuisine/Rice" that basically gets you rice + meat + veg for that cost... sometimes lower.

I forgot to add that the reason eating out can be slightly cheaper in Singapore is because I am talking about the hawker centres / food courts, not the restaurants or diners. So... these food courts are self-serving, as in you will have to go there and collect your own food and the like, so there is no service charge. I think this would explain why eating out can be cheaper if you go to the food courts. Eating in a restaurant will drain your wallet.

Oh, same here as well. I usually go to nearby food courts when I want to eat out.

[Risottia]

If you live on Arrakis, you have no real choice.

You can always steal food from the Harkonnen.

[Forsher]

Well, cooking can take up as much time as a reading. One less reading for one piece of assessment could have a quite outsized impact on your marks, which could potentially have enormous financial consequences.

If cooking prevents you from reading your assignments and hampers your studies... I'm pretty confident it's not the cooking that's the culprit, but lack of organizational skills and improper time management.

No, it's that cooking takes a long time if you want to do it right.

This is why ovens are superior. 20min chopping stuff up or whatever then stick it in for however long and do something else.

Can't cook a stir fry that way, for example. Although, of course, it should not take so long to cook. The point is that you can cook, study or do something more fun than either. Like sleeping.

I have a microwave-oven combo.

A what? Microwaves are microwave ovens??

[Valentine Z]

I think they meant Microwave itself... I think.

Microwaves are also called "Microwave Ovens", though they are technically not the traditional ovens. It's just the naming convention, I suppose.

Though with that said, a Microwave Oven combo is something I've never heard of before.

[The Blaatschapen]

D'yer Mak'er?

Yes, definitely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pFZz3OXcMs

[The New California Republic]

Well over 90% of meals are at home, or prepared at home to be carried with me for lunches during work hours etc.

[Thepeopl]

I think they meant Microwave itself... I think.

Microwaves are also called "Microwave Ovens", though they are technically not the traditional ovens. It's just the naming convention, I suppose.

Though with that said, a Microwave Oven combo is something I've never heard of before.

We have microwave (magnetron) which can also be used as an electric oven. So microwave oven combo

[Valentine Z]

I think they meant Microwave itself... I think.

Microwaves are also called "Microwave Ovens", though they are technically not the traditional ovens. It's just the naming convention, I suppose.

Though with that said, a Microwave Oven combo is something I've never heard of before.

We have microwave (magnetron) which can also be used as an electric oven. So microwave oven combo

Ahh, I actually didn't know about those. I mean... might have heard of it, but never thought of the combo. Thanks! ^^

[Neanderthaland]

Anybody else see this thread and assume it was Dragon Age religious evangelism?

[Farnhamia]

Anybody else see this thread and assume it was Dragon Age religious evangelism?

Not Dragon Age but that was the first thing that came to mind. Well, and sandworms.

[Extreme Metal]

I need no fancy urban tools. I use my hands, unlike you machine slaves.

[Neanderthaland]

Anybody else see this thread and assume it was Dragon Age religious evangelism?

Not Dragon Age but that was the first thing that came to mind. Well, and sandworms.

Bless the coming and going of Him, May His passing cleanse the world. May He keep the world for his people.

[Valentine Z]

I need no fancy urban tools. I use my hands, unlike you machine slaves.

That's very handy of you. And also metal.

[Samadhi]

Do they have a tequila sunrise maker?

[Samudera Darussalam]

Anybody else see this thread and assume it was Dragon Age religious evangelism?

I first thought of this as related to some religious topics, so yeah.....without the Dragon Age part.

[Thepeopl]

Do they have a tequila sunrise maker?

Yep! Its called spouse in my case
Or bartender. If you take one home and keep them, you might even change the brand to butler...

[Lillorainen]

A microwave, a water boiler, and, most importantly, a coffee maker are what I need. Hasselhoff is doing the rest.

[Coffin-Breathe]

I need no fancy urban tools. I use my hands, unlike you machine slaves.

I´d like to watch him/her slap a steak till its "well done" (or "medium" or "rare", if preferred so)...

[Kernen]

I need no fancy urban tools. I use my hands, unlike you machine slaves.

I´d like to watch him/her slap a steak till its "well done" (or "medium" or "rare", if preferred so)...

Does fire count as an urban tool?

[The United Wolf Packs]

I don't use human tools. I live in the Woods with my pack. I need no lazy human devices.

[Xuloqoia]

I don't use human tools. I live in the Woods with my pack. I need no lazy human devices.

NSG is an out-of-character forum.

[The Dual Republic]

Perhaps the only one I'd need is the rice cooker.

I need no fancy urban tools. I use my hands, unlike you machine slaves.

I´d like to watch him/her slap a steak till its "well done" (or "medium" or "rare", if preferred so)...

I remember a Reddit comment on how much force you need to slap a steak to cook it. XD

[Grahnol]

I don't know where you are but eating out and home cooking are in no way comparable in terms of cost.

Welcome to Singapore, yo. Eating out is pretty expensive on the face value, but with the high costs of utilities (water, gas, electricity) from cooking, it sorta balances out...

At least, that is as far as I am concerned. Other Singaporeans might have different mileage, but for me personally... there's a difference, but not much of a difference between the two.

As someone who used to live in Singapore, I can relate. Hooooly shit is like literally everything expensive in Singapore. Housing is expensive, utilities like water, electricity, transportation (if I remember correctly), etc, they're far higher than what I pay for here now. And yeah, while eating out might seem expensive at first, cooking stuff yourself requires utilities that are expensive as well so basically they're the same. Don't really know if I preferred one over the other back then.

I also love how like 82% of the Singaporean population lives in HDM flats which is public housing and even then that shit is still very expensive. I hesitate to even think about the pricing of private housing and the rare sight of a single-family house

IIRC, Valentine Z is Singaporean.

I thought Singapore was expensive too! Either that or groceries and utilities there are like, super pricey

Singapore is the most expensive city in the world, tied with Hong Kong and Paris and before, it was the sole most expensive city in the world. So as you imagine, it's pretty bloody pricy to live there.

[Grahnol]

Oh, and as for if I need a maker in my life, the only 'maker' I use regularly is my rice cooker. I don't use many makers outside of that.

And on a related note, I keep telling my dad to get a coffee maker for himself because of how much he's a sucker for coffee though he still uses already brewed coffee beans to make his coffee though he does accept the supremacy of using normal coffee beans.