The Yolk's On Me
Explode. Who knew that eggs could even do such a thing? But thanks to my recent multi-tasking-fueled cooking/science experiment (AKA The Curious Case of the Exploding Eggs), I’ve discovered another exciting new egg preparation method. I mean really, just about anyone can serve eggs up the old ho hum ways: scrambled, hard or soft boiled, in an omelet, fried over easy, etc. How many cooks can claim they’ve actually exploded them?
Well, me, for one. Last week we had 18 people over for a barbeque at our house. The day before, I decided to get a jump on the spinach salad I would be serving by hard boiling four eggs for the garnish. So I threw ‘em in a pot of water and wary about a watched pot not boiling, headed upstairs to make a phone call. My mission? To try and hunt down some new towels for our kids’ bathroom; I had found two earlier in the day in our local Linens ‘n Things and planned on letting my fingers do the walking to find the rest I needed in another nearby store in the chain.
Forty-five minutes later I was hanging on the phone with Leticia, the planet’s most patient sales clerk, when the hubby informed me that “my” eggs (funny, we had never labeled our food before) had blown up all over the kitchen floor and counters. He kindly turned off the stove before proceeding to head out to a guy (read: gory) movie with our son. And really, I would’ve gone right down to clean up the mess but Leticia had me on hold and as together we had invested close to two man (alright, woman) hours in The Big Towel Search, I was loathe to just hang up.
Fortunately, Leticia ended up finding the towels. And even better: by the time I decided to face the aftermath of my culinary explosion, the dogs had beaten me to it.
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I also fell victim to the saying "a watched pot never boils".
In my case, I planned to prepare pasta in one of those restaurant-sized pots. While waiting for the water to boil, I busied myself with other tasks outside of the kitchen. When I came back to check on the status of the pot, I discovered that it had melted onto the burner coils. Why had the pot melted, you ask? BECAUSE I HAD FORGOTTEN TO FILL THE POT WITH WATER IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!
