<p>Are there any cooking facilities in the dorm available to students besides individual microwaves and fridges? For example, if I wanted to cook an omelette, would I be able to? And if each dorm differs, how are Jarvis' facilities? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Yeah, dorm kitchens have ovens. I can't remember if their are ranges on top, and if these ranges are gas or electric, though.</p>
<p>there are ranges (at least in bassett) but you cant really rely on the cooking area cleanliness. just a note.</p>
<p>Yeah Jarvis has an oven, stove, fridge, microwave, and whatnot. People were always using the kitchen last year to cook things...you just kind of have to clean up before as well as after, because it can get a little gross...this goes for any dorm kitchen.</p>
<p>You should have no problem. We had a guy who regularly cooked whole meals.</p>
<p>YEAH JARVIS!!!!
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<p>I believe all of the dorms have electric stoves, an oven or two, fridge, nuker, and a few cabinets and group pots/pans and a sink. Something good is to go get pizza dough and one of the rollable non-stick baking mats, roll it out, and then whole foods is across the street for whatever toppings / cheese you want to put on there to cook your own pizza. Tis awesome.</p>
<p>What about toaster ovens? Are they allowed in dorms?</p>
<p>I'm not sure if they techinically are, but I knew someone who had one. They're pretty useful, and I don't see why they wouldn't be.</p>
<p>i think they're not allowed because they pose a fire hazzard. if you keep it in your room though, there shouldn't be a problem. i know someone who ahd one last year and nobody said a word...</p>
<p>I had one, no one said anything to me about it. I think you just can't have exposed heat, like a hotplate.</p>
<p>So, I'm trying to work out an "Iron Chef: Duke" contest for this Fall. I have some friends at Cable 13 and just passed the idea along to them... Would people be interested in a documented cooking contest of some kind?</p>
<p>It should be a real college cook off though: the entire meal can't cost more than 3 bucks in supplies... and it has to include some form of ramen or mac and cheese.</p>
<p>ROFL - hadn't considered that part. Could make it so there's a specific budget AND everything has to come from East Campus Store, the Lobby Shop, or Uncle Harry's and be prepared using a dorm fridge and a microwave...</p>
<p>HOWEVER - I was thinking more along the lines of finding two kitchens on East that are "the same" - such as the two in Randolph and Blackwell - buying equivalent cooking supplies for each, having some kind of budget (depends on how many judges there are; probably four meals to cook per kitchen total) and giving teams 24 hours to shop and prepare.</p>
<p>PLEASE -- the easiest way to win DrumNDukie's competition is Thai Kitchen's instant noodle carts. Open the box, pour in hot water, add in the packet of seasoning -- pad thai/thai peanut/toasted sesame noodles in seconds. It even comes with a FORK. My roommate and I lived on that stuff...it's seriously God's gift (or Costco's gift) to college students.</p>