Minimalist Cooking

This is my current cooking equipment.

Bottom to top: Chest of drawers formerly lining my hallway. Contents, mainly shoes partly retrashed, brought to thrift shop, otherwise found other places. Still needs that paint job. 

Mini oven. Found months before I needed it across the street and was waiting on top of the chest still in the hallway. I didn't test it but somehow it looked good. It's not a beauty but turned out to work fine! Stains on top are paint damage. Great to warm up sausage rolls and other small things that before I wouldn't heat up the gas oven for.

An electrical two-burner camping or table cooker. I bought it as an emergency in 2015. Chef's brand new state of the art electric stove arrived on a Friday, him and neighbour Freek enthousiastically brought his old totally unsafe of cheap Chinese make gas stove (given to him by a neighbour 2006 or so) to the street already. But to connect the new one adaptations in the house had to be done and I couldn't get the technician until Monday. The light weight device was cheap and good enough to warm up things for us over the week-end and make coffee. I spent the money with this in mind that my own old 1960's Etna was still working well enough, but it had a 'user maual', and badly needed a new gas hose, but I was reluctant investing in that. In the end getting tired of always turning on and off the main gas switch I took the new two-burner down and put it on top of the shut lid of the stove. Oven only for storage.

Until one morning, and I don't know how this happened overnight, my Etna had sunk through its front legs. Never thought about fixing it, I wheeled it out on my dolly (also see chest in my hallway here) first trash night, installed my mini oven and this is all I need.

Pan on top a recent find. A bit higher than my regular 20 cms, great for half liter soups that need mashing. Lid is a separate find that came by itself, turns out to be more practical than the original one.

Chest now stores more frying and other small pans than my oven did. And space for all my cutting boards!