So our new apartment has *gasp* gas stoves.
Lauren's mom: "You'll get to love the gas once you get used to it. It works really fast, be prepared to burn a bit of food at first."
Great, maybe, *after* I figure out how to use it properly I guess. Half of the time when I turn it on, all that comes out is the smelly gas but no flames. Seems to be pretty hit or miss, random luck. "Maybe this burner will cooperate". But then Lauren showed me the magic trick, you have to turn it on to lite and leave it there till the flame comes on, so maybe now i'll have better luck at it.
And then get this, there is about a quarter inch on the dial between lite and high, but there is like an inch and half between off and lite. I don't see why they cram everything so close together and then not use over half of the dial. Bad design. Using 90% of the dial would make it a lot less "try, overshoot, and retry" to get the flame at different "levels". But weirdly enough, you have to turn the dial below low to get small flames.
And don't get me started on the oven. The numbers are all worn off the dial, so you have to squint and look at a weird angle to try and read where they used to be. Not that the labels for the burners aren't almost completely worn off too.
Umm, can we have a new stove? We have a nice new dishwasher just like at our old place... I ended up deciding it would be easier to cook my pizza in the toaster oven than try and figure out how to tell when the stove warms up. (yes, I was getting veggie pizza cravings. I haven't had pizza in ::thinks:: over a week, not since finals week. Wow, I think that's set the 2002 longest time jess has not had pizza in consecutive days award.
Oh, and then I remembered making dinner tonight, that you can't just pour a bunch of water in a pot to make rice and then dump the rice in when it starts boiling, like you would with spaghetti. No, rice you need to actually *measure* the water.
well, technically you don't have to measure, but if you don't it comes out all watery and flavorless (I think I figured that out soph. year, the first time we had a kitchen, back when i actually cooked). Taking the lid off and stirring to evaporate a lot of the water seemed to help a bit, but rice is hard to get right. It looks so easy, if you do it right, but without a rice cooker (not that I know how to use one of those either, heh) it's really not nearly as easy as it looks
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I included this article because I feel like it gives a little random insights into who I am and what makes me tick and some of my opinions (such as that of gas stoves).