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Student Kitchen Cooking

A shared kitchen that works for you: a move-in record, a labelled shelf, a one-crate kit, fast one-pan dinners, rotas and fridge etiquette, and plans for exams, house moves and life after halls.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Student Kitchen Cooking, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

Before you start: this plan is general information to help you organise your own health. It is not medical advice and does not replace a doctor, nurse, pharmacist or other qualified professional. Check any change to treatment, medicine or diet with them first, and get urgent care if you feel unwell.

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Starter tasks

🥗 Food & Nutrition

Student Kitchen Cooking

Feeding yourself well in a shared student kitchen with cheap, quick recipes, basic equipment and shared-fridge etiquette.

  1. Move-in day kitchen walk-round and photo record
  2. Accommodation rules on cooking, appliances and fire alarms
  3. Claiming your fridge shelf and cupboard space
  4. Housemate allergies and dietary needs sheet
  5. One-crate personal cooking kit
  6. Sealed dry food box against pests and borrowing
  7. Kitchen rush hour map for your building
  8. First five shared-kitchen dinners under thirty minutes
  9. Kitchen fire safety and pan fire drill
  10. Weekly meal plan around your timetable
  11. Shared online grocery order to reach the delivery minimum
  12. Sunday evening cook-up in the quiet kitchen
  13. Own-shelf fridge check before it smells
  14. Wash-up within thirty minutes habit
  15. Bin and recycling rota with housemates
  16. Shared staples kitty for oil, salt and washing-up liquid
  17. Freezer drawer list with dates
  18. Start-of-term house kitchen meeting
  19. Packed food for long campus days
  20. Monthly recipe swap with a housemate
  21. One-pan dinners that save hob time and washing up
  22. Oven-tray dinners for when the hob is taken
  23. Microwave meals for a long hob queue
  24. Prepping ingredients in your room before you cook
  25. Scaling a recipe from one portion to six
  26. Late-night food after a night out, safely
  27. Catered, part-catered or self-catered halls
  28. Bedroom mini fridge, allowed and worth it or not
  29. What to pool and what to keep as your own kit
  30. Group-bought appliance agreement
  31. Resolving missing food and fridge space disputes
  32. Kitchen fault log and repair requests
  33. Campus dining plan versus cooking, a four-week comparison
  34. Icebreaker house dinner in the first fortnight
  35. Exam season food plan
  36. Birthday cake for a housemate in a shared kitchen
  37. End-of-term potluck in the shared kitchen
  38. End-of-year cupboard run-down and kit packing
  39. Catered halls with only a pantry kitchenette
  40. Moving from halls to a shared private house
  41. International student finding ingredients from home
  42. Ramadan suhoor and iftar in a shared kitchen
  43. Placement or internship short-let kitchen
  44. Student parent cooking in family accommodation
  45. Postgraduate cooking around long lab and teaching days
  46. House recipe book written by everyone in the flat
  47. Cooking for a society social of fifteen
  48. Floor or block kitchen representative
  49. Society bake sale or food stall fundraiser
  50. Graduation repertoire audit of twenty dinners

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Move-in day kitchen walk-round and photo record

Halls and shared houses often charge leavers for damage that was there before they arrived, and the kitchen is where most of those charges land: scorched worktops, cracked hob glass, a fridge door that never sealed. Walking round on the first day, photographing every surface and appliance and sending the list to the accommodation office puts a dated record on file before anyone can blame you.

First tasks

  • Photograph the hob, oven, fridge, sink and worktops with the date visible
  • List every scorch mark, crack, stain and missing item you can see
  • Email the list and photos to the accommodation office or landlord
  • Save their reply alongside the photos in one folder

Accommodation rules on cooking, appliances and fire alarms

Every hall of residence and most shared tenancies have written rules about which appliances are allowed, where you may cook and what happens when burnt toast sets off the fire alarm. Evacuating a whole block at midnight can mean a charge for the person who caused it, and a banned appliance found at a room inspection can be confiscated.

First tasks

  • Find the kitchen and fire safety sections of your accommodation agreement
  • Ask the agent to summarise those sections into one page
  • List which appliances are banned in bedrooms and in the kitchen
  • Note the charge for setting off a fire alarm, if your building has one
  • Ask the residence team what usually triggers the kitchen smoke detector

Claiming your fridge shelf and cupboard space

Six to twelve people sharing two fridges is the commonest source of friction in student kitchens, and it starts in week one when nobody knows whose shelf is whose. Agreeing a shelf, a cupboard and a freezer drawer per person in the first days, and labelling them, prevents most of the arguments that follow.

First tasks

  • Count the fridge shelves, cupboards and freezer drawers in your kitchen
  • Propose a fair split of the space in the kitchen group chat
  • Label your own shelf, cupboard and drawer with a name or room number
  • Check the labels are still in place at the start of each term @recurring(quarterly)

Make it yours.

Install Student Kitchen Cooking, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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