Hi,
I'm going to the snows soon and I was planning to bring a rice cooker with me to save on the food expenses. Rice cookers are good because I can use it to steam and cook many things.
The place i'm staying is The Station (http://www.perisher.com.au/the-station/accommodation.html) however they strictly said theres no cooking allowed. They said that I can only boil water, make instant noodles and their argument was that when the place was built, it did not accomodate having frying pans etc. in the room.
So my question is, are rice cookers much different from kettles (in terms of electricity usage)? is there anyway for them to tell if I just sneaked a cooker in? (supposeably the steam from rice cooker should be same as that from kettles right so smoke detectors wouldnt go off)
Just do it - no one will know unless you're sharing the room with strangers.
During uni, I lived in a dorm and we weren’t allowed to cook in our rooms.
But being the lazy uni student that I was, sometimes I’d cook rice/vegies in my room using a rice cooker. The smoke alarm never went off (and the room was shoebox sized).
Put a towel over the cooker to capture the steam, if you want to be doubly sure.