Options for Cooking while visiting Australia

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The obvious answer is to stay in backpackers (Australian for hostel). All backpackers I've been to in Australia have guest kitchens where you can cook your own food.

You can buy stuff in the grocery store and then cook in the hostel.

The hostel kitchen is also one of the best places to meet people, there are always people there and they usually don't use their phone/iPad/Laptop while their cooking, so you can actually talk to them.

It is pretty easy to find some people to cook together. It is always more fun and cheaper to eat in a group.

Out of the inner city the hostel may also have a BBQ place where you can grill.

Having said that, I was not too impressed with the inner city hostels in the big Australian cities last time I've been there. So if you are planning to stay for longer, shop around for a while until you find a good.

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Find yourself a sharehouse. You'll meet people, have access to a kitchen and it'll be a lot cheaper than staying in a hostel.

Gumtree is probably your best bet. Often, when people leave Austraila for a month or two they'll use it to sublet their room so you get a lot of furnished rooms available short-term. Failing that, you might want to check out Flatmate Finders and maybe even Domain although most ads there will be expecting longer stays.

Airbnb has already been suggested but is another great option.

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One option which hasn't been mentioned is the public BBQ's that are common in Australian parks.

For example Brisbane has 490 parks with public BBQ's.

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If you always want to cook in hostels, then have a look at the kitchen first before you decide to stay there for a month. Some hostels close the kitchen at night so you can't even access your food in the fridge, and I have seen hostels where the toilets actually looked much cleaner than the kitchen area.

You could also try CouchSurfing, airbnb, the "flatmate wanted" section at Gumtree or even a local camp site for short term stays if you want to avoid hostels and get to know the locals.

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