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(N. Thornton) writes:

> I can only guess that maybe the OP does not have the money for an
> oven.

I have a very small kitchen. It has a stove top but underneath there is
no oven. Instead there is a little refrigerator. There is no room for
an oven. That is the main reason why I don't have one and will not be
purchasing one.

However, N.Thornton is correct in guessing that, even if I had room for
an oven, I probably don't have money for one. One of the reasons I'm now
investing so much effort in cooking is to reduce my food costs. I find
it makes a big difference: in the month of April, which is when this
experiment started, I've managed to keep my food expenditures below 50
dollars for the entire month. Also, I have temperamental study habits,
one of which is to study in coffee shops and now I can't afford to do so.
I particularly like to enjoy a muffin with a cup of coffee, but the cost
of that adds up to a significant figure if I do it every day, even if I
only consume one muffin and one cup of coffee, and I do need to study
every day. Moreover, as I need to study for several hours, that low
level of consumption would tend to enrage the proprietors and diminish
their willingness to accept with good grace my studying there, so in
practice the costs of these study habits are higher. So, I've recently
stopped studying in coffee shops and that is interfering with my studying.
I'm hoping that when I can make my own fat-free muffins from scratch and
have reinvented myself in a few other ways, I'll be able to put in as much
time studying as I did formerly. I've also checked supermarkets and have
found that fat-free muffins are not much cheaper there.

Thanks for the comparisons of various alternatives for ovens.

Ignorantly,
Allan Adler

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