Nancy and I have been fortunate enough to do a little more travelling these days and we frequently stay at VRBOs or Air B&Bs. We have found them all to be quite satisfactory in most every area except one. They never have sharp knives. Most of these vacation spots have very good knives, but they are generally as dull as a tooth ache.
Since we do a lot of cooking on our stays, I always bring a knife sharpener, one of those slide-across the edges sharpeners. They aren’t very professional, but they’ll put a quick edge on most any knife.
Another thing I bring along to help out in the kitchen is a reliable frying pan. Many Air B&Bs have those steel pans that famous chefs cook with, but I hate them. I find that things stick to those pans like paper to glue and flipping an egg becomes an impossibility.
So, two things, a sharpener and a good frying pan, will improve any visit to a VRBO or an Air B&B.
