Canberra Travel Forum

Hi,

My friend will be going to study in ANU soon, and she would like to know the price rang for rice cooker and water boiler, and also the voltage use in Australia ..

Please advise urgently, as she is going on this Tueday night.

Thank you

kim

Here's one of many links that will show you what an Australian power point looks like - http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=2633138f09a4f1f42eca7908c6aaee74 - we're 220 volts and the bottom pin on a power plug is "earth"

For a rice cooker, one of the largest cheaper stores around Australia is Kmart - here's the link for their on line range. Maybe cheaper in store. Not sure what you mean by a water boiler, but try electric kettles and from the last time I had to buy one after the old one died, it was around $20

http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/s_10151_10104_Appliances_Small+Kitchen+Appliances_Slow+Cookers+%26+Steamers?keyword=rice+cooker&sLevel=1%7C2&sLevel=0

Well you can buy small urns if you need more than a kettle...Plastic ones cheaper and there are stainless steel. The last time I saw them was in places like Mitre 10 hardware stores. You will find these stores in shopping centres or maybe on there own. Cost more than a kettle but The plastic ones not bad...would only guess at price.Maybe $100 for stainless steel.

while i was there for a longish stay i had to buy a rice cooker and it costed me 20 dollars in aldi(it is quite good quality)ia m still using it back home.
wish your friend a safe trip and all the best,
vpas

Voltage is 240kw, for a water boiler or kettle i would allow minimum of $20 the reason being is that the cheaper dont have the little lid over the pourer hence you could end up boiling dead flies depending on circumstances and flies. I always spend the extra and get the lid.
You can get from kmart, big W a rice cooker/steamer from $29-95 upwards.
Cheers Heather

>hence you could end up boiling dead flies

Yum!!!! Have you ever heard of flied rice (sometimes said as lice)? The WA flies are really tasty - LOL

Mate, especially if you get to taste the little white eggs. Yummm the way they crawl down your throat, that wriggling sensation!

Hi all,

Thank you for your advise, I told her to get one in Canberra...

Cheers!!


kim