<p>Anyone bringing food appliances (whether they're allowed or not) to their dorms this Fall? Besides the common fridge, anything else? </p>
<p>I'm thinking about bringing a sandwich maker as it's cheap at a local department store this week. I'm also only on a 10 meal plan at school with $400 credit on the campus food places (that tend to be a bit overpriced) which is why I'm considering it. For $7, I'm finding it a bit worth it.</p>
<p>You mean a panini maker? Sounds interesting.</p>
<p>I’ve considered bringing a toaster oven to toast bagels in the morning in order to save my meals points. However, some people have said toaster ovens go unused. I’m wondering if there is any truth to this statement.</p>
<p>I think my dear roomie is bringing a coffeemaker, but I explained that many places on campus have free or super cheap coffee.</p>
<p>Well online it’s called a “sandwich maker” but yeah, it’s similar to a panini maker except that it’s “stencil” looks like a sandwich cut in half diagonally. </p>
<p>I don’t drink coffee but with the way so many people swear by it in the morning for energy, I’m considering getting into it aha.</p>
<p>I have an electric tea kettle b/c I’m a tea addict (I try to limit myself to 2 cups a day). I also have a blender for smoothies and mixed drinks. These both come in handy for my personal tastes, but they also take up precious space… I want a coffeemaker too, but I feel like it’s a waste of money/space. That being said, I don’t have a fridge or microwave so I guess I’m just nontraditional all around.
For 7 bucks, I’d say the sandwich maker is a great deal if you’ll use it a lot.</p>
<p>Microfridges are all you need, imo.</p>
<p>I have a toaster oven/toaster combo (it can do both), and I absolutely love it.</p>
<p>Last year, I used it at least once or twice a week.</p>
<p>(And yes, they’re banned at my school. However, I leave it unplugged whenever not in use, and I would advise you do this as well).</p>
<p>Blenders are great! Too bad I’d only use mine rarely if I was to get one. But I love strawberry and banana smoothies, that’d be such a fantastic breakfast.</p>
<p>Microfridges are expensive, even renting them on campus is expensive.</p>
<p>Yeah, I would definitely disconnect it when not in use.</p>
<p>I just bought a sandwich maker, having never considered purchasing one before, because I read this thread. Oops.</p>
<p>I have a rival 6 cup rice maker, and it’s a really good dorm purchase. It’s tiny, but you can make anything you could make on a stove in it, so it’s pretty handy.</p>
<p>Haha, let us know how the sandwich maker goes! I think I’ll be getting mine later this week.</p>
<p>I don’t even eat the kind of sandwiches you put in a sandwich maker. I am thinking I will probably just use it for grilled cheese. I just spent $20 on a grilled cheese maker. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>Though the sales page did say it could be used to make omelets and french toast, too, which is nifty.</p>
<p>Ah Target has one for $7 this week. I’m definitely going to make grilled cheese on mine.</p>
<p>Figures, I was just at target. Oh well!</p>
<p>I now have sandwich maker, rice maker, fridge, microwave, toaster, and toaster oven. I can’t think of anything else I would actually use, though I may acquire a waffle iron by christmas time. Maybe a blender.</p>
<p>For people who drink coffee, a coffee maker is really a good idea-- nobody wants to go out to buy coffee at 3am when they’re up studying. The only reason I don’t have one is because I was raised on instant coffee anyway.</p>
<p>does your school allow it?</p>
<p>I’m bringing a coffee maker. I got it free a couple years ago when graduated highschool at my “senior all-nighter”. It looks decent and it was free so that’s cool. I bet I won’t use it but a handful of times but oh well.</p>
<p>I’m taking a blender & a personal waffle maker because I live on waffles and smoothies</p>
<p>rice cooker is a big plus.</p>
<p>OP, if you’re bringing stuff that’s not allowed, you’d better hope your school doesn’t do safety inspections of the rooms. I have had a microwave the last few years, and since there are now whole cooking sets and cookbooks designed around microwave cooking, that could be something to consider.</p>
<p>@stealth, your campus has free coffee???</p>
<p>I think my school does have a safety inspection in the beginning of the year, just to make sure freshmen haven’t brought anything illegal, but I’m planning on keeping the sandwich maker in one of my storage bins. They’re not allowed to look at anything that isn’t in sight, i.e. I’m lifting my bed a little (loft?) and my bedding comes with a bedskirt— they’re not allowed to lift that bedskirt to see what’s under my bed.</p>
<p>Nice. Can’t say I’m not doing something similar this year. They changed the alcohol policy so technically even though I’m 21, because one of my suitemates is under 21, we’re not allowed to have alcohol in our apartment…but what they don’t know won’t hurt them.</p>
<p>We have safety inspections at the end of every semester. I was under the impression it was more checking windows, outlets, locks, etc than searching for illegal items, but maybe I am wrong. I keep everything out of sight unless it’s in use anyway.</p>
<p>I actually think I am allowed to have “a small amount of alcohol for personal consumption” in my room. It’d feel awfully strange to be walking down the hall to my room carrying a bottle of booze out in the open. lol.</p>
<p>P.S. I just got a microwave cookbook from my grandma yesterday that I am pretty sure is like circa 1970. They have had microwave cookbooks and sets forever and a day. But my microwave is not equipped to do most of the cooking in that book.</p>