Holiday Home Kitchen AIBU

[KitKatastrophe]

We are staying in a holiday home this week, which has a lovely big kitchen (house sleeps up to 8), but the equipment in the kitchen is weird. For example there are only 2 small frying pans and no electric scales. On the other hand there is a flan dish, a sieve and 3 or 4 very big knives!

AIBU to think nobody is making flan or butchering a chicken in their holiday home!

I haven't even got electric scales in my own house.
I don't think I have a flan dish either unless my mother left one!

I wouldn't expect electric scales, but I have made quiche before. Generally holiday cottage kitchens are awful though, YANBU. Lots of knives is good though!

Surely far more people would use big knives on holiday than would use electric scales though? I have stayed in holiday cottages a lot, and would rarely choose to eg bake a cake there that I would need scales for. I would use a big knife to chop vegetables etc though.
A flan dish is surely not flan-specific either - you can just use it to roast things in the oven.
I have been to cottages with weird combinations of stuff though- eg about 2 dozen crystal wine glasses and a full set of a dozen steak knives, but no cafetière.
They often have really small mugs as well, which always pisses me off.

Holiday home kitchens are often dreadful.
Full of random cast-offs from the family kitchen. And often every single cupboard and drawer full of stuff - nowhere to store any food.

As much as I use my digital scales (a few times a day depending on what I'm having), I wouldn't expect them in a cottage.

Agree that unfortunately, cottages tend to either have castoffs from the owners' main kitchen, or whatever few things from IKEA they believe people require.

I wouldn’t expect scales. Knives are very useful.

Maybe the flan dish was bought and left by someone else. Some people just use them as oven dishes...

Also how is a sieve weird?

Also how is a sieve weird?
If it was a big sieve I would use that assuming they didn't have a colinder to drain water from pasta, rice or whatever.

I'm a bit baffled by how you find the things they have weird. Lack of large frying pan is annoying though.

Confused by the logic that says you won't make a flan, but do need electric scales (for what?). I only use scales for baking, which is similar to flan making in complication for holiday cooking.

I use a sieve in holiday cottages. I like to drain or rinse things. Frequently, there isn’t a sieve or colander.

So no saucepans? Only frying pans? That’s weird. How do you cook pasta.

I have a holiday let. I can honestly say it did not cross my mind to add electric scales. Do they have to be electric? I can’t believe I’ve been so lax. 😆

The things they have provided sound entirely reasonable to me.

Electric scales???? I don't even know what these are. In my kitchen I have set of 1920s balance scales with the original weights. And at least they are decorative too!

No large frying pan is annoying

I would expect a sieve and large knives

I would never expect scales

we've just come back from a lovely holiday cottage in wales the kitchen had everything you could want except a cheese grater as i had planned to do packed lunches i would have liked to have grated cheese on my lunchtime butties

All sounds pretty normal. What do you need scales for?

Oh, see, I don’t like grated cheese in a sandwich. Very much a slice.

One of my pet hates. Although the place we went to last year had 6 frying pans. Every fucking cupboard was stuffed full of them. There were only 3 saucepans as well (small, medium, large) Nothing sieve or colander-like although some of the frying pans had lids so there was that. Only 1 baking tray, no oven gloves.

And a selection of very small glasses.

The lack of large frying pan would annoy me. I like doing cooked breakfasts or pancakes on holiday - not really possible with only two small pans.

A sieve is understandable - they can be used as colanders, after all.

When we travel, we always take a steamer, our kitchen knives, a casserole dish, and a good chopping board.

Apparently when we went to Canada, we should have also taken a plug for the kitchen sink. Go figure.

@Wibblypiggly

I have a holiday let. I can honestly say it did not cross my mind to add electric scales. Do they have to be electric? I can’t believe I’ve been so lax. 😆

I can't imagine it would occur to many people to give a toss! 🤣. I don't even know what electric scales are digital, electronic, manual or balance scales, maybe...but most people who would bake on holiday probably don't need scales!! I suppose some might want them for diets or what have you.

A well provisioned kitchen is a good thing in a holiday home. Apparently. Decent knife & bottle opener & I'm pretty happy! 🤣

I would not want any scales electric or not. If you go to another holiday home again , can you not enquire about all kitchen stuff available, as it seems from reading on here, that many places are lacking in what should be available for most families.

I wonder if some of the equipment might have gotten damaged or - walked
they might have started out with more
I could be wrong!

The ones we stay in always have a rubbish frying pan! We neeed non stick and why is there never a corkscrew! I'm on holiday I want wine.

Oh yes, always take a bottle opener!