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Kitchens in Oxford Colleges

Tyraell

This is useful: the Mum wouldn't believe me when I told her kitchen facilities are sparse in Oxford. I think she's going to try and make me cook all my meals. ¬_¬

Once you're there, tell her you're so horribly busy working that you simply can't afford to lose 1-2 hours a day cooking and washing dishes. ("Over an eight-week term, that would cost me, like, 100 hours, mum. Just think about how much revision I might have done during that time. :eek:

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Reply 21

martin101

10

Well, no... I cook quite a few nights a week (because it works out far cheaper than hall even though hall is dead cheap). Yes Im busy, but I wouldnt say I was so busy that I couldnt spend an hour or so cooking and enjoying my dinner (even if it means I sleep an hour later).

Reply 22

Athena

6

But washing up is such amazing procrastination :puppyeyes:

Reply 23

SolInvictus

11

Tyraell

This is useful: the Mum wouldn't believe me when I told her kitchen facilities are sparse in Oxford. I think she's going to try and make me cook all my meals. ¬_¬

My mother is trying to come over to Oxford and cook all my meals for me. :s-smilie:

Reply 24

Quistis

My parents are keen on all that organic, GM-free stuff, but they're surprisingly tolerant of my M&S ready meal habit. :wink:

Though they're less enthused about my Finals fat. Other Finalists, or indeed other anyone with exams, is this happening to you? Apparently it's a common phenomenon amongst us Hilda's girls. I've gone up a clothes size :frown:

I just seem to stuff my face with crisps and chocs during study breaks. And I don't have the energy or time to make salads or stir-fries, so I'm eating more processed food than usual (see: M&S ready meal habit). :frown:

Reply 25

Turdburger

16

Sainsburys Basics ready meals are the way to go. Also the basic noodles for 8p are good.

Reply 26

Huw Davies

11

As a rule, modern colleges (or modern buildings in older colleges) tend to have more abundant cooking facilities - St. Hugh's is especially good from what I've seen.

Reply 27

heliotrope

1

^it is true. at worst you'll have a small kitchen with two hobs, an oven, a fridge and a microwave. at best you'll have a full sized kitchen with fridges, freezers and multiple full sized ovens with four burner hobs and grills and things.

Reply 28

cpchem

14

Quistis

My parents are keen on all that organic, GM-free stuff, but they're surprisingly tolerant of my M&S ready meal habit. :wink:

Though they're less enthused about my Finals fat. Other Finalists, or indeed other anyone with exams, is this happening to you? Apparently it's a common phenomenon amongst us Hilda's girls. I've gone up a clothes size :frown:

I just seem to stuff my face with crisps and chocs during study breaks. And I don't have the energy or time to make salads or stir-fries, so I'm eating more processed food than usual (see: M&S ready meal habit). :frown:

Having ATS literally one minute from my room is a bad thing in this regard.

Reply 29

Sinuhe

8

cpchem

Having ATS literally one minute from my room is a bad thing in this regard.

This is off-topic, but do you live in Jowett Walk then? How are you coping with the ridiculously loud construction work, what with having finals in a couple of weeks?

Reply 30

cpchem

14

I do, yeah. It is proving to be pretty horrendous - they start at 8, or just before, six days a week, but they do at least finish by about 4.
The combination of noise and dust means that I have to have my windows closed all of the time - and my room gets very hot. My window is south-facing, and spans a good 3/4 the length of my room (which is about the second closest to the site).
In short - great fun! Normally, I don't get much work done during the day, but obviously with IA in a few weeks, I need to, so I'm just moving out to libraries.

Reply 31

Angelil

19

In LMH there are only two good kitchens anywhere near me. One is in our MCR and the other is along the main corridor of my building. Of these kitchens, only one has an oven. I keep a mini fridge in my room due to the lack of fridge space, and I also store a lot of food in the space above my wardrobe. I also have in my room a toaster, kettle, and steamer.

There is a kitchen on every floor of my building, but they are each about the size of a shoebox, have an 'oven' the size of a grill that often doesn't work, and 2 hobs between 5 people. Needless to say, perhaps, the kitchen facilities leave a lot to be desired, and I eat in hall most of the time mainly because the facilities are so poor - which I suspect is what the college wants as they KNOW it's more expensive to eat in hall than it is to cook for yourself. They also clearly aren't keen on fostering independence since most people live in college under this arrangement for the full duration of their course.

Reply 32

Milady de Winter

Greatleysteg

Anyone know about the kitchen quality at Hilda's? (Stereotypes aside, it was a girls' college...) The alternative prospectus reckons it's usually shared between 14 people :eek:

- so I hope there are at least ovens.

It depends what building you're in. Garden has the worst kitchens - tiny, no eating space, no ventilation - so making late-night toast results in constant fire alarms! No ovens - just a hob and microwave.

Christina Barratt has the best kitchens, but I think it's still a finalist-only building. Hall and Wolfson are both decent. Milham Ford kitchens are small, but not many people live in that building so there aren't normally any problems. All of these buildings have ovens, etc.

All the kitchens are clean though - the Scouts clean them every weekday morning.

Reply 33

Milady de Winter

Stupid me, most of the above has been covered by Quistis. :redface:

Glad to hear a shout-out to Milham Ford! I had room 5, overlooking the river... it was great...

And, to keep this post on-topic, I believe that St Peters has absolutely no kitchen facilities for people living in college. Not so much as a fridge.

Reply 34

Sachlee

what about wadham-i recall seeing a few at interview but i didnt pay much attention...im just curious.

Reply 35

Athena

6

Front quad (half of which will be being rebuilt next year) - no kichens. You have to go to staircase 9 or the JCR kicthen. Scaircase 12 has a proper oven, don't know about the rooms on the KA, staircase 10 or 13 (Back quad). Staircases 28, 29 and 30 (I think - the ones by the Holywell gate) have no kitchens. Rooms off the JCR quad (new staircases) have a kitchen per staircase, so shared between 6 - 14 people. They have two electric hobs, a kettle, fridge, microwave and toaster. Bit of a moxed ba, but college lunch is reasonable and good, college dinner may or may not impress you. The rebuilding of the Front Quad might improve their kitchen facilities.

thank you :-)

SolInvictus

My mother is trying to come over to Oxford and cook all my meals for me. :s-smilie:

Care to trade? :biggrin:

Reply 38

SolInvictus

11

Tyraell

Care to trade? :biggrin:

Feel free too. Except I will quite plainly tell your mum that I do not wish to cook in Oxford, as I have enough things to do without adding self-nourishment to the list.

Reply 39

Angelil

19

You must be really lazy if you actively WANT to eat in hall. Cooking nutritious meals for yourself is relatively cheap doesn't take a long time at all. The only reason most people do eat in hall is the lack of kitchen facilities provided by college, and the poor quality of the facilities that are provided, especially at postgrad level.

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