Wow, I'm really going post crazy...
This really cracks me up
I wouldn't want to touch the tooth either.
Rosco's Man Crush
17 years ago
So.... I bake wedding cakes and make fancy dinners (sometimes) and watch Food Network ALL the time, but I have one serious culinary flaw... I can NOT boil and egg to save my life.
I know. It's one of the easiest kitchen tasks, but for some reason I just can't let those little eggies sit in the water long enough to get properly cooked. And if I DO try to go against my instinct, I will let them sit there entirely too long and they will majorly over cook.
So... Enter my newest gadget:
Purchased at William Sonoma for 6 bucks while I was visiting up in Idaho.
So, the idea is that you put the egg sized and shaped timer directly in the water with the eggs, and the color will change as the timer heats up, letting you know precisely when the eggs are cooked to your desired doneness.
I decided to test it out this last saturday and kinda screwed up royally (see previous blog post for full story...), so I did a second test last night.
My timer sitting in the water with 3 eggs to test the three settings.
Here's a pic from Saturday when those eggs were at medium
And the final results?
Soft, Medium, and Hard cooked eggs. Not bad!
And all Ben could say was, "It smells like farts in here."
This post is to explain a serious disorder of which I suffer from. It's called Shiny Object Syndrome. To illustrate the devastating effects of this disorder, let me tell you about the last 60 minutes of my life.
The Plan:
Super speed clean so that the house is beautiful and welcoming when Ben gets home from teaching his class at UTA.
The Reality: (timing is approximate)
60 minutes ago- Start cleaning the kitchen. Get distracted when I open the fridge door, see the carton of eggs, and remember the super nifty new kitchen gadget that I got while visiting Idaho (shiny object #1). Start the eggs boiling and go back to cleaning kitchen.
50 minutes ago- As soon as the water starts boiling I notice the new gadget working its magic and think of what a great blog entry that new gadget would make (blog= S.O. #2). Go grab the camera, which happens to be out of battery power. Start the hunt for new batteries (S.O. #3)
45 minutes ago- Camera is ready to go, start snapping pictures of my gadget at work, which reminds me that I have a few other projects going on in the house that need to have "before" pictures taken.
40 minutes ago- Gather these items for their photo shoot and start snapping away (S.O. #4). Tucker decides that he would like to be the subject of these photos, and he is just too darn cute to disagree with. Thus begins a full fledged Tucker photo shoot (S.O. #5)
30 minutes ago- Come back to the kitchen to finish doing dishes and realize that I've forgotten about my new gadget and let it work its magic just a smidge too long, pull my eggs out of the water, start running them under cold water, and wonder if the blog post is now ruined.
20 minutes ago- Doorbell rings- two kids from the neighborhood are fund raising for some summer camp (this does not count as a Shiny object since it didnt really catch my interest, just ate up some time)
15 minutes ago- Decide that I really need to crack down if I'm going to get this house clean, and head back to the kitchen. By this time the eggs are cooled so i decide to peel one to see how badly I screwed up. Turns out, its a little over done, but not too far gone- just as the new gadget had predicted... so the blog post is NOT ruined!
10 minutes ago- If i'm going to clean this kitchen, i'll need something entertaining to watch while i'm doing it. I remember the movie that I've got on the DVR that I was watching last night. (S.O. #6) Cue the movie to the right spot. Turn back to the dishes and realize that, 50 minutes later, there is actually a BIGGER mess in the kitchen than there had been before, realize it is all due to my S.O.S. and realize that THAT could make a really good blog entry...
The Plan:
Super speed clean so that the house is beautiful and welcoming when Ben gets home from teaching his class at UTA.
The Reality: (timing is approximate)
60 minutes ago- Start cleaning the kitchen. Get distracted when I open the fridge door, see the carton of eggs, and remember the super nifty new kitchen gadget that I got while visiting Idaho (shiny object #1). Start the eggs boiling and go back to cleaning kitchen.
50 minutes ago- As soon as the water starts boiling I notice the new gadget working its magic and think of what a great blog entry that new gadget would make (blog= S.O. #2). Go grab the camera, which happens to be out of battery power. Start the hunt for new batteries (S.O. #3)
45 minutes ago- Camera is ready to go, start snapping pictures of my gadget at work, which reminds me that I have a few other projects going on in the house that need to have "before" pictures taken.
40 minutes ago- Gather these items for their photo shoot and start snapping away (S.O. #4). Tucker decides that he would like to be the subject of these photos, and he is just too darn cute to disagree with. Thus begins a full fledged Tucker photo shoot (S.O. #5)
30 minutes ago- Come back to the kitchen to finish doing dishes and realize that I've forgotten about my new gadget and let it work its magic just a smidge too long, pull my eggs out of the water, start running them under cold water, and wonder if the blog post is now ruined.
20 minutes ago- Doorbell rings- two kids from the neighborhood are fund raising for some summer camp (this does not count as a Shiny object since it didnt really catch my interest, just ate up some time)
15 minutes ago- Decide that I really need to crack down if I'm going to get this house clean, and head back to the kitchen. By this time the eggs are cooled so i decide to peel one to see how badly I screwed up. Turns out, its a little over done, but not too far gone- just as the new gadget had predicted... so the blog post is NOT ruined!
10 minutes ago- If i'm going to clean this kitchen, i'll need something entertaining to watch while i'm doing it. I remember the movie that I've got on the DVR that I was watching last night. (S.O. #6) Cue the movie to the right spot. Turn back to the dishes and realize that, 50 minutes later, there is actually a BIGGER mess in the kitchen than there had been before, realize it is all due to my S.O.S. and realize that THAT could make a really good blog entry...
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