Saturday, October 4, 2008

Cooking and Messing..

Well, first things first. I DONT find cooking boring. Rather I find it a pretty interesting and entertaining past-time. Definitely would be game to learn some interesting preparations :)

But unfortunately, I seem to have this insatiable tenacity to mess up minute and highly unexpected things. And cooking is no exception !

It was perhaps a couple of weeks after we had moved into the apartment. I kept the cooker to boil rice and after sometime, burning smell starting flirting with our smelling senses.

So, I and a couple of my room-mates hustled to kitchen. While I and another room-mate(Sumukh), started removing the cooker, another room-mate,Gokul, as always, holding his "caution" flag, stood a bit(?) far behind us(smart or scared?). After some-time, Sumukh discovered, that I had missed to put water in the cooker.

While it was easy to pass this one as starting woes, today's incident is a bit inexplicable even if we consider the adage "no one is perfect" !

It was couple of minutes after I setup the cooker and steam fizzling out very badly. I called Sumukh and he made me change the arrangement of utensils in cooker.

After some-time, it was deja-vu. The burning smell and three of us entered. Only this time, it was me, Sumukh and another room-mate(Sujith). We observed that no pressure had built up.

While Sujith examined the cooker, Sumukh confirmed that water was there inside this time [I learn from my mistakes and make newer ones :-)]. Then Sujith found out eventually probably after examining for 10 minutes that there nothing much wrong. Except that I had closed the cooker using the lid of some other cooker !!

Hmmm, there is nothing much I could have. Both lids look alike, errrr, actually they dont. The one I, Sujith and Sumukh use[we cook rice separately by applying division of labor], is very clean ;)

9 comments:

The Divine Aura said...

It doesn't look identical you nincompoop!! Get yourself a pair of spectacles x(

I'm gonna start out a blog about cleanliness and personal hygiene today FYI :)

@viewers - Look out for my link here soon

Shishir said...

Gokul,

Sorry, but you badly need a pair of spectacles. This is what i wrote:

"Both lids look alike, errrr, actually they dont."

Gokul, good thought.. you will learn about cleanliness/hygiene while you write the blog :P

The Divine Aura said...

Oops my bad.. But you are "blind" enuf.. you couldn't tell the difference.

Yes, I always learn something new from everything. cleanliness is like a subject with unending depth.. I'd love to explore that - You'd never learn from that too! :D

Shishir said...

Gokul,

Good for you dude.. Keep exploring about, errrr, *cough* cleanliness.. lol..

You are right sir.. I never learnt how to be clean.. Neither did I learn how to breathe.. God's gift you know.. lol..

The Divine Aura said...

Yes.. glad that you understand it..

you usually don't

Shishir said...

yeah, I cant understand until someone speaks sense :)

The Divine Aura said...

You don't have to over-prove something man.. you've proved my point again just now!!

Anonymous said...

For your own safety please stop cooking !!!!

Shishir said...

Sujith(anonymous),

awww, definitely would do that if u can take my cooking turns :)