So when you guys go back home or to some other place .. are you able to cook? Is it just me who feels it extremely difficult to get the khana to taste good .. my namak mirch proportions get all mixed up and i feel so nervous !
Please tell me this happens with you all too 
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yeh it does happen with me too, specially i just can't make roti somewhere else, may be change of rolling pin and worktop, and plus hate looking for things and to open each and every unit in other's kitchen.
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Yeah I guess we get very used to our stuff … I feel I cant cook properly in other people’s degchi’s … I am so used to my own pots 
last time i tried cooking elsewhere i burnt food every single day 
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I cooked in my cousins house a few months ago, I made chicken biryani, lol, it is a real hassle trying to find where someone keeps all of the things which you regularly cook with, but my cousin is an avid cooker, so she basically has collected all sorts of cooking equipment, stuff I've never even seen, which is surprising because I've seen a lot.
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its not cooking part that worries me.. its the totally different taste that worries me. i lose my touch, my individuality instantly the moment i cook in my ILs house in pak. i cook pretty ok there except for my biryani tastes different becus masalas are different there plus it dusnt help that the quality of rice is different too.. plussssss there are atleast 8 ppl eating there whereas i m used to makin only 1-2 kilo rice... arghhhh.. this time i made biryani on 10th muharram.. t was disastrous! i over cooked the rice.. they were a bit mushy too.. and the taste was not that gud too. i HATE cookin in pak!! i keep tellin ppl to visit me in dubai.. i m more used to the masalas here. i think i wudnt doo bad if i cook in someone elses house in dubai.. but in pak i m sure ill make horrible rice :D
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Well I never cooked in pak :D but i HATED cooking in my MIL's house, the woman can make a salan in under 30 minutes, but when I tried, it literally took an hour for the water to boil. For me the hardest thing to get used to would be the stove, if you go from a gas to electric or wahtever.
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I really struggled with getting pilau right when we moved abroad, it would just turn out too mushy or too hard, tried everything, changing pots, changing rice, changing water, in the end i just kept telling hubby it was the gas:cb:
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.. Most people in pakistan dont understand that this phenomenon is real , having difficulty in achieving the usual taste in food when cooking it in a new place ! its not always about find where the spices … but more so about getting used to the fire , stove , the bartan and even the time that certain foods take to cook !
I remember , the aloo’s take me forever to get cooked , here , but in Pakistan it took a few minutes and I didnt know that , hence ended up getting potato halwa