I'm a great believer in the electric skillet for such things. Very portable, very versatile. Grew up military, moving all the time, often living in low-price hotel rooms for periods of time. Mom always travelled with an electric skillet. ALSO an old-fasioned electric percolator. She threw the "guts" away (the basket), and would just use it to boil water and make cups of soup, tea, cold remedies, coffee. ANYTHING you can cook on can cause a fire. But the electric skillet works well for a great variety of dishes.