Reddit reviews Maxi-Matic Elite Cuisine ESB-300X Single Countertop Portable Small Buffet Burner Electric Hot, Coiled Heating Plate, Temperature Control, Dorms, RV, Camping, 750 Watts, Black

MaxiMatic ESB-300X Elite Cuisine 750-Watt Single-Burner Electric Hot Plate, Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0006A2ZTS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_8miCxbDZFH5ED

I get Jimmy joy its cheaper but it's less smooth. Soylent use to be a good option but they jacked their prices up year after year. It definitely saves a ton of cash if you get jimmy joy. It's like $2 a meal.

Just a warning mixing soy-lent or any of these products in liquid above room temperature destroys many of the vitamins. If you want proof mix it in high temp inside an airtight bottle, it will create a ton of gas.

As far as no kitchen. Get a mini-fridge ($70) and a hot plate ($15). Perfect size pot for hot plate. An electric kettle is pretty useful too. I have all this crap in my room because I have 4 roomates and trying to get in the kitchen is fucking annoying.

Other option for cheap food is rice / beans / eggs / veggies ect. All can be cooked with a hot plate. Dehydrated veggies are a god send

Yea, I usually have the hair dryer pointing towards an open door in a very large room. And I've only got around a cup of alcohol, so that shouldn't be a huge problem.

If I switched to a hot plate, would this one work?

Looks like it comes with essentials including tongs which I forgot to mention. I didn't see a grommet for the bowl or hose so make sure you grab some here.
You definitely need a way to light your coals if you're using naturals. Consider getting a hotplate.

http://www.amazon.com/MaxiMatic-ESB-300X-750-Watt-Single-Burner-Electric/dp/B0006A2ZTS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1415055848&sr=8-2&keywords=electric+coil+burner This is the burner I use. I've had it for over a year and it still works great! I highly recommend it.

It is the base of the hotplate with the temperature controls.
This is the exact model I bought off amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Maxi-Matic-ESB-300X-750-Watt-Single-Burner-Electric/dp/B0006A2ZTS/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1331576188&sr=8-11

The problem with some electric hotplates is that they have a kill switch built in if the heat gets too high so to remedy this the heating element is removed from the hotplate and put into the smoker with the wires leading out of the bottom and into the base of the hotplate. Now I can better control the temperature. One day I plan to permanently mount the base underneath the smoker.

If I were homeless I would want lots of things, but as random suggestions:

https://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Sleeping-Zone-Reflective-Available/dp/B000Y9H09Q?th=1&psc=1
Some of those are cheaper than that though ... I'd also want uncooked rice and beans, but would then also need to cook them in a cheap pot and have a small burner like :

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0006A2ZTS/ref=psdc_13838451_t1_B005T0SN0K

Electric so you would not have to buy nor invent your own heat for it, when in public places to mooch off of. Rice and beans are cheap and healthy, water is pretty much free, so is the electric, so the portable cheap burner with a small pot in a bookbag with your foil sleeping bag would be essential, aside from staying clean. Ideally as a homeless I would invest in a battery system to take the electricity with me, and use a small heater whilst sitting inside a box along with the tin foil. The batteries and components to go with it is what would actually get more pricey, as the sleeping bag when bought in bulk is just a couple dollars or three in this supposed higher quality case and the burner only like ten. But if you are mass buying this I am sure you don't want to go buying people ten dollar burners, and rather than buy them pots they do have large can food, I would be one to use a bucket sized used tin can as my pot for rice and beans, I am just saying pots and pans are cheap anyway and get thrown out often, if not there are empty cans made of steel anyway.

I personally like duffel bags more than bookbags, duffel bags can be pretty big.

Can you get an electric heating element?
Like this one?

Should be enough to heat up some water for a corn cob or two.

Thirteen freakin' dollars!

http://www.amazon.com/MaxiMatic-ESB-300X-750-Watt-Single-Burner-Electric/dp/B0006A2ZTS/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1407314142&sr=8-5&keywords=hot+plate

Did you even read the article?

> Everything we own is in the wagon; it has to go everywhere with us or it gets stolen.”

A bag of rice fits in a wagon!

Did you read what I wrote? The beans come in a can! They don't need soaking! What else do you need to soak beans anyways!? Water! She doesn't need to buy vegetables for the whole month! She can buy them each day!